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 Siren.Snowe
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By Siren.Snowe 2011-01-15 11:09:43
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Asura.Bartimaeus said:
Carbuncle.Asymptotic said:
I happened to have read Dawkins' book for a class several years ago, but I also knew it was on the Wikipedia page because I've had the discussion on "how to pronounce" meme several times before lol.

Oddly this is something that comes up frequently >_>

I didn't wanna insinuate you were part of the 'silly random percentage'.

Tbh I feel weird pronouncing ANYTHING outloud. So I guess in my perspective it's all "in my head" pronunciation mostly..

Anyone else feel weird speaking XI (or other terms) outloud awkward at best? :3

Yeah, reminds me of a time a long time ago where i ran into this guy workin a drive through and he overheard my friend and i's convo about ffxi and he was like "Oh you play ffxi too!" and we talked about it and he kept on pronouncing Chocobo as "Chocko-bow" now, I say "Cho-co-bo"
 
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By Siren.Snowe 2011-01-15 11:12:57
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they ought'a have a pronunciation-for-everything-ffxi website or somethin
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By Carbuncle.Asymptotic 2011-01-15 11:13:29
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Xzomit!
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By Siren.Snowe 2011-01-15 11:14:29
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Zomit
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By Carbuncle.Asymptotic 2011-01-15 11:15:28
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Yeah, I usually turn to JPs for pronounciation on stuff like that. JPs say Xzomit "ゾミット" which is pronounced "Zomitt"
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By Odin.Blazza 2011-01-15 11:56:44
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I think most FF terms would be pronounced differently by most people, seeing as for the most part, we only see them in their written forms, and don't get any audio clues.

I say chockah-bow (like bow-tie) and vana(rhymes with spanner) deal. I really don't care if that's not right, because I only ever pronounce them in my head :p
 
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By Sylph.Siccmade 2011-01-15 13:15:29
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Asura.Bartimaeus said:
Anyone else feel weird speaking XI (or other terms) outloud awkward at best? :3
On vent or talking with RL friends, I've learned that I Americanize the hell out of FFXI words.
No flare what so ever and as phonetic as can be lol.
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By Leviathan.Popebenedict 2011-01-15 14:25:22
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how good is gallant's roll?

It's a VERY situational roll, however with the proper set up (especially in abyssea) it CAN be an extremely powerful roll.

Where it would shine is against a mob that hits fast and hard where blood tanking makes a bit more sense.

Gallants roll IS effected by your magic attack bonus, fire affinity staves, etc, so with proper gear you can make the spike effects easily do 50-70% of the mobs damage to you, throw in some atma and you can EASILY top 100% damage return.

While I wouldn't use this roll terribly often, I think it gets thrown to the curb side 99% of the time when in fact it is more useful then people give it credit for.
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By Gilgamesh.Sanders 2011-01-16 03:10:28
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Leviathan.Popebenedict said:
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how good is gallant's roll?

It's a VERY situational roll, however with the proper set up (especially in abyssea) it CAN be an extremely powerful roll.

It feels like this applies to the bulk of COR's repertoire.

I hope SE felt the CORrage worldwide when they promptly took back the 10min duration on 11rolls the patch right after they added it.

Oh well. Thank god for QD and pretty red hats.
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By Odin.Zicdeh 2011-01-16 03:19:16
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All the ***in Al'taeiu sound like they're ripped from the Necromomicon or some ***.

Hx'zdie aw'aernn ix'phuabo Cthulhu Hm'grah ru'hpemde ix'aern!

The_Necronomicon said:
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn.

I always assumed the connection, as such, mortal tongues cannot hope to utter the words of the dark lord, so don't even try.
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By Odin.Liela 2011-01-16 03:24:54
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I say choke-uh-bow, van-uh-deel, tah-roo tah-roo, Temple of ooh-guh-luh-puh, miz-uh-row (row a boat) coast, baff-low (loud) thickets. Pretty sure I say just about everything in ffxi wrong. /blush.
 
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By Sylph.Rogueleader 2011-01-16 04:04:23
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My question is this

Why was deodorize put in this game?, I heard rumors it prevented undead blood aggro, along with stopping certain enemies from tracking you, I.E crawlers.
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By Siren.Flunklesnarkin 2011-01-16 04:06:40
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Rogueleader said:
My question is this

Why was deodorize put in this game?, I heard rumors it prevented undead blood aggro, along with stopping certain enemies from tracking you, I.E crawlers.

Deodorize has its uses.. just not very often i suppose.. (no doesn't prevent blood aggro)

Used it when leveling bst a lot before I got leave.. was nice for those few levels..

Can use it to lose aggro too fairly consistently.

Sometimes i think i can get around a mob w/o aggroing it and it just doesn't work. Happened to me in nyzul isle, running around doing quests in general, and assaults a lot.

90% of the time sleeping the mob >> deodorize >> run away.. id never see it again.

Although the only time deodorize would be useful is if you made a mistake by not having sneak / invis up to being with... so i guess its only useless if you never make that mistake >_>

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By Gilgamesh.Sanders 2011-01-16 04:22:08
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If folks are going over pronunciation...

Joachim
"Joachim is a surname, ultimately derived from the Biblical king Jehoiakim. Pronunciation varies, and may be wa-keem' or jo'-akim."

I'm going with the former. All you *** saying "joe-uh-chim" and "jow-chim" can rot in hell.

Cuisses
It's "kwis-sez."

Caturae
According to the wiki, its origins are the sanskrit game "caturaṅga." The way the mobs are described by SE, catura ought to be singular and caturae is plural. Going by a flimsy latin class, it should be "ka-too-rye."

And sweet god, someone tell me how to pronounce "d'Oraguille."
(d-or-ah-gee?)

/wordnerd
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By Leviathan.Melisenna 2011-01-16 04:38:09
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Gilgamesh.Sanders said:
And sweet god, someone tell me how to pronounce "d'Oraguille." (d-or-ah-gee?) /wordnerd
"Dor-ra-gee-l" the L is near silent and roll the r's. good old french pronounciation
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By Gilgamesh.Tweeek 2011-01-19 15:38:00
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Does half the community refer to Atma of the Apocalypse as AoA and the other half refer to it as Apoc?

if so *** that!
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By Cerberus.Nutt 2011-01-19 15:44:55
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Asura.Bartimaeus said:
Lived with a guy a short while who said Vah-nah-dee-El. Drove me up the wall. :( lol Also Tah-roo Tah-roo (taru-taru)

You're going to hate me then lol.

Qufim is Qwifum

Taru Taru is TAH-roo TAH-roo

Bastok is BASS-tok

Vanadiel is Va-NAH-Dee-El

Saruta baruta Is Saa roo Tuh Baa roo Tuh

East Ronfare is East Run-fair

Yeppers, I'm Southern. From Jackson, MS.
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By Fenrir.Schutz 2011-01-19 18:25:04
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I remember the voice-over guy from the intro CS (that one everyone turned off years ago) pronounced it "bas-TOOK" almost as if it was "-tük" (with an umlaut.) :p

I figured SE paid the guy to do the voice over, so I'd imagine he was saying it as correctly as the English-language localisation team felt it should be. :p
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2011-01-19 18:28:40
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why are my dark nipples fun to play with but completely useless?
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By Asura.Lilbuttons 2011-01-19 18:46:40
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They're not completely useless. They're fun to play with.
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By Artemicion 2011-01-19 19:24:30
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Question to the monks:
Does the Regen effect from Invigorate stack with the Regen spells?
 
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By Valefor.Ivaan 2011-01-19 19:53:53
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what happens when you beat mine sweep?

Is is possible?
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By Ifrit.Darkanaseur 2011-01-19 19:55:25
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Artemicion said:
Question to the monks:
Does the Regen effect from Invigorate stack with the Regen spells?

No
 
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By Quetzalcoatl.Ultrarichard 2011-01-19 20:53:16
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Valefor.Ivaan said:
what happens when you beat mine sweep?

Is is possible?

I assume you mean Minesweeper? lawl nothing.. you get to start again ; ;
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