How is Luclin pronounced?

[t0lkien]

In group today the question was asked, and no-one had a definitive answer.

[Gadwen]

Looslin not Lucklin

Like Lucid, or Lucy. You don't pronounce it Luckid or Lucky.

At least thats how I see it.

[Tobras]

luke-lin

[Nerosys]

luke-lin

this is how i pronounce it too

[crunkfresh]

My uncle was at E3 the year after Luclin was launched, he worked for Acclaim before they were run out of the business for making such shitty games. He asked an EQ Dev and they said that nobody fucking knows. In-house they used Look-lin, Loose-lin, and Luck-lin.

True Story.

[t0lkien]

Look-lin is the Scottish rendering.

[sanforce]

Looslin not Lucklin

Like Lucid, or Lucy. You don't pronounce it Luckid or Lucky.

At least thats how I see it.

Game, set, match

[Tobras]

in general the soft c only occurs before i, e or y, except in certain words like "arcing". or sometimes before oe or ae in greek words like caesar (mmmm.....)

to me the only debate is in the pronunciation of the u

[Lemiddar]

luke-lin

^

[Aeolwind]

Luck-lin.

Consequently, how can there be an incorrect pronunciation of a made up word when we have real words with different pronunciations?

Toe-may-to, Toe-mah-to. Both are correct.
Oh and forgot the southern pronunciation, 'mater.

[LordSterben]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/

Luclin: noun \ˈgär-bij\

[Tobras]

i guess i just think luke-lin because it sounds more like "lunar" or somethin

[Rhambuk]

I prefer Luck-lin

Qeynos was a mystery as a kid I pronounced it Kwee-nos (nose with a soft s)

wasnt until I think eq2 when they added in voice mods and i heard it spoken Key-nos

Erudite was another tricky one when i first heard it, i was like 12 =p

think i called them err-uh-dites

it will always be luck-lin to me, loose-lin just sounds stupid. and frankly offensive to be calling that poor girl lynn loose...

[Swish]

"Loose-lin" ?!?

WTF are you guys on?

[Gadwen]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/

Luclin: noun \ˈgär-bij\

I change my vote to this.

[t0lkien]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/

Luclin: noun \ˈgär-bij\

[myriverse]

Looslin not Lucklin

Like Lucid, or Lucy. You don't pronounce it Luckid or Lucky.

At least thats how I see it.
I could see Luke-lin. Luclin is named for Sir Lucan, which like the King Arthur character is pronounced with a K, not an S, sound.

But in my mind, the extra consonant between the vowels should change the pronunciation. So, no long U. Luck-lin.

Definitely not Loose-anything.

[SamwiseRed]

luck-len

[SamwiseRed]

whats more important is how do you pronounce chocobo, ive heared at least 4 or 5 different pronunciations.

mines really weird but ive been saying it this way since i was a kid playing ff3 on the SNES. i say

chalk - a - boo (but without the l sound in chalk)

ive heard cho ko boe

choke a boe

ect

[SirAlvarex]

Loose-lin? There are two consecutive consonants in Luclin, therefore it'd be either luck-lin or look-lin. For the english language both would fall under the rules.

Not the worst butchering of an expansion I've heard tho. When Velious first came out I had a friend constantly call it "Velashious". I had no flipping clue what he was talking about, and thought he was having a stroke.

[a_gnoll_pup]

https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/index.php?threads/intended-pronunciation-for-luclin.197324/page-2#post-2917667

[mutefruit]

luck-lin confirmed by a customer service rep when i had issues when i first bought the expansion. during the call i kept on saying loose-lin and the CSR kept saying luck-lin. I asked after about 5 minutes of this and he confirmed the proper way to pronounce. I swear this happened :)

[Flipmode]

It's funny how so many europeans know how to pronounce english words better than americans. Also it seems like we know how to spell english words better.

[Fuddwin]

I remember playing EQ2 and how the NPCs would actually speak and not just speak with text. The one particular NPC that spoke to me pronounced it "Luck-lin." Now don't ask me what NPC that was, cuz I have no clue. I just remember her pronouncing it that way.

Notserp

[EQTrax]

it is Luck-lin, the original manual confirmed this as well.

[Feralspec]

luck-lin is how they say it in EQ2

[Resken]

I pronounce it LOOSE-LIN. Even if I'm wrong. I'd never change it. Just like I pronounced SOW (SO) not (S-OW). I may be wrong on both, but I can't reprogram myself after saying it this way for 10+ years.

[Rzaa]

luke - lin

all others are wrong and should feel bad.

[Kraftwerk]

luke-lin

[Swish]

luck-lin is how they say it in EQ2

Luclin (as in the moon) was in a million pieces... teh poor cats :(

[Lagaidh]

I've always said and heard the "Italian c":

Loochlin

[Swish]

Offtopic slightly but Dutch players say "Wuu-w" instead of WoW :p

[webrunner5]

Depends how drunk you are is how it is pronounced. :p

[pharmakos]

same "Luc-" sound as "Lucid" imo

[Nocte]

All the devs I met and the voice-overed NPCs in EQII pronounce it "luck-lin."

[pharmakos]

a hard K sound in the middle of a word is annoying, and if thats true then i now hate this expansion even more than i already did

[LordSterben]

Loose-lin? There are two consecutive consonants in Luclin, therefore it'd be either luck-lin or look-lin. For the english language both would fall under the rules.

Not the worst butchering of an expansion I've heard tho. When Velious first came out I had a friend constantly call it "Velashious". I had no flipping clue what he was talking about, and thought he was having a stroke.

This reminded me....back around velious we had a coworker start playing who butchered a lot of the names. This was a middle aged man and he had his own lexicon going:
Potions were called "portions"
Lake of Ill Omen was "Lake of Ill-e-ome"
Cougar claw earrings were "Courage claw earrings"
And my favorite ....charisma was "chism"

He never made it to Luclin so I'm not sure how he would have translated that one.

[t0lkien]

It's funny how so many europeans know how to pronounce english words better than americans. Also it seems like we know how to spell english words better.

It's just par for the course. I had to convince some of my workmates in the US that they didn't, in fact, invent the English language. It came from England, hence "English". No really, I'm not kidding.

[fastboy21]

Look-lin here.

[fastboy21]

It's just par for the course. I had to convince some of my workmates in the US that they didn't, in fact, invent the English language. It came from England, hence "English". No really, I'm not kidding.

You left out what type of work you do. It matters. :p

[EchoedTruth]

luke-lin

This

Edit: vote changed to below

[EchoedTruth]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/

Luclin: noun \ˈgär-bij\

I vote this

[mreynert]

Looslin not Lucklin

Like Lucid, or Lucy. You don't pronounce it Luckid or Lucky.

At least thats how I see it.

This is c followed by a consonant though, not c followed by a vowel.

Luck-id and Lucky are both c followed by consonant.

Ergo, Luck-lin.

[fastboy21]

Its a proper name from a fantasy world...why would it follow English spelling rules?

[webrunner5]

It's just par for the course. I had to convince some of my workmates in the US that they didn't, in fact, invent the English language. It came from England, hence "English". No really, I'm not kidding.

I can't understand a word English say. And I am American! Sounds like they are grabbing their tongue when they speak. They all need to go to Proper University. Well after Holiday. No rush with the rain and all. :rolleyes: I bet Swish can only Purr and Meow.

[joppykid]

luke-lin

[Myth]

I used to say luce-lin / loose-lin until I watched an SoE interview and all the devs were pronouncing it luck-lin. Since then I pronounce it luck-lin.

[Sollix]

Luck-lin.

Consequently, how can there be an incorrect pronunciation of a made up word when we have real words with different pronunciations?

Toe-may-to, Toe-mah-to. Both are correct.
Oh and forgot the southern pronunciation, 'mater.

This is how the SoE employees were reported to have pronounced it at EQ fainfaires. I continue(d) to say Loose-lin, just because I like it better that way, but Luck-lin is correct if you care.

[myriverse]

So... do people pronounce the guy's name George Loose-us?

[Gadwen]

So... do people pronounce the guy's name George Loose-us?

No it's George Luck-us

[Cords]

defenantly Luke-Lynn

[Rogean]

Wasn't going to read every page to see if it was said yet or not, but it was confirmed back in the day by SOE that it is "Luck-Lin".

[Kelven]

I had always pronounced it Loose-lin, but could honestly care less about that horrid expansion, and moon.

[Raavak]

luke-lin

[Atmas]

It's pronounced Luck-lin, heard it said by SOE employees before. However, that sounds stupid and I say Loose-lin.

Also others words like lucid and Lucinda are pronounced similarly to lu in lunar. For a word to be pronounced with that hard "ck" noise it would need to have a ck, like duck, luck, f*$k, chuck.

[SirAlvarex]

Considering the hardcore stance all "loose-lin" pronouncers are taking, I think I see why the development team doesn't take the community's opinion at large when it comes to "classicness" :)

You guys can't even pronounce the expansion's names right!

[lecompte]

... how can there be an incorrect pronunciation of a made up word when we have real words with different pronunciations?

I've never said it and had an EQ player go, "Huh, what are you talking about?" So I think people know anything that ends in starts with L and ends in LIN is Luclin.

[pharmakos]

My uncle was at E3 the year after Luclin was launched, he worked for Acclaim before they were run out of the business for making such shitty games. He asked an EQ Dev and they said that nobody fucking knows. In-house they used Look-lin, Loose-lin, and Luck-lin.

True Story.

i believe this story.

the moon being called "luclin" was a part of everquest lore before the expansion came out. i can't find a solid date for when the Luclin server opened, but by looking at a few old Zam pages i have confirmed that it was open as early as February 2001. (9 months before SoL's release)

IMO once the expansion came out and it became a more common word, SOE adopted the "grammatically correct"/double-consonant pronunciation in order to seem brainy-er? or something. there are some WEIRD words that don't follow typical grammar rules, though, and i feel that Luclin should have been one of them. LUnar LUCid.... Luclin. flows off the tongue way better with a soft C sound.

[Rhambuk]

Wasn't going to read every page to see if it was said yet or not, but it was confirmed back in the day by SOE that it is "Luck-Lin".

Screenshots or it never happened.

[falkun]

Luke-Lynn

[Sirken]

luck-lin

[nilbog]

Loose-lin

[quido]

Luke-lin

[Morlaeth]

luke-lin

[Calidore]

Luke-lin

Agreed!

[mwatt]

I always thought "luke lin", and never even considered another pronunciation.

To get the "loose lin" pronunciation, I'd have to think it would be Lucelin.

To get the "luk lin" pronunciation, I'd have to think it would be Lucklin.

[bloodmuffin]

luck-lin

[Kender]

the worst pronounced expansion was That Piece of Crap. people kept pronouncing it as Gates of Discord

[ozguy]

It's actually Look-lihn

With stronger accent on the "Look"

[SyanideGas]

craplin

[Clark]

Loose-lin

same here that's what I always called it, anything else sounds stupid

[Clark]

Looslin not Lucklin

Like Lucid, or Lucy. You don't pronounce it Luckid or Lucky.

At least thats how I see it.

[hyper50]

I've always said it as "Loose-lin", but I could be wrong. Just like I'm pretty sure I say Qeynos incorrectly as well. I've always pronounced it like Quaynos, but I'm pretty sure I've heard EQ dev's say it as "Key-nos".... Same thing with Erudities.. I always say You-rid-it-ies, but it's probably pronounced more like Erro-dites. That's what happens when there's no voice acting and people have to go off their own reading/interpretation skills lol.

[myriverse]

Qeynos = Kay-nos. Or Key-nos. There is no U in there. No U; no "wuh" sound.

[runlvlzero]

luke-lin

[hyper50]

Qeynos = Kay-nos. Or Key-nos. There is no U in there. No U; no "wuh" sound.

Yeah... I know... but after saying it this way for so long, there's no turning back for me now lol.

[Waedawen]

If it's not "Luke-lin" then it's absolutely "Loose-lin"


All that really matters is that you're pronouncing a long U.

[Droog007]

LUCK-lin ... rhymes with SUCK-lin

[Calabee]

loose-lin lol

luck-lin all the way


WTB VAH SHIR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sanforce]

"Loose-lin" is the only one that makes sense. Anything else is just crappy reading skills on your part.

[OriginalQin]

"Loose-lin" is the only one that makes sense. Anything else is just crappy reading skills on your part.

Surely you and all the people voting for loose-lin are trolling.

[Sarius]

Surely you and all the people voting for loose-lin are trolling.

[t0lkien]

It's already been pointed out, but a c followed by a consonant in the English language is pronounced hard as a "k" e.g. lucrative, clear. A c followed by a vowel is soft e.g. lucid. Luclin has a c followed by a consonant, so it's almost certainly hard.

= "Luck-lin"

[UrsusMajor]

Luck-Lin

Also SoW is pronounced like Crow not like Cow.

[Scavrefamn]

Luke-Lin

[mreynert]

I've always said it as "Loose-lin", but I could be wrong. Just like I'm pretty sure I say Qeynos incorrectly as well. I've always pronounced it like Quaynos, but I'm pretty sure I've heard EQ dev's say it as "Key-nos".... Same thing with Erudities.. I always say You-rid-it-ies, but it's probably pronounced more like Erro-dites. That's what happens when there's no voice acting and people have to go off their own reading/interpretation skills lol.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erudite

Erudite is actually a word, basically means learned. Pronunciation is in link.

[Norrath]

Luke-lin

/thread

[Norrath]

It's already been pointed out, but a c followed by a consonant in the English language is pronounced hard as a "k" e.g. lucrative, clear. A c followed by a vowel is soft e.g. lucid. Luclin has a c followed by a consonant, so it's almost certainly hard.

= "Luck-lin"

Your example seems to be more of a case for "Luke-Lin".

Otherwise, why wouldn't lucrative be pronounced, "luck-rative"?

[Spacebar]

Wow, I'm really surprised that it is this divided. I've never heard anybody say it any other way than Luck-lin.

[t0lkien]

Your example seems to be more of a case for "Luke-Lin".

Otherwise, why wouldn't lucrative be pronounced, "luck-rative"?

Fair call, and I could live with "Luke-lin". "Loose-lin", however, is out IMO. Everyone I know has always called it Luck-lin, including the devs though.

[Agatha]

i pronounce it, terrible expansion.

[Langrisser]

Luclin

LUKE-LIN

hard "C" just like with tolkien sometimes. thread closed.