How is Luclin pronounced?

[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]

Originally Posted by Tobras [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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 must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

[lecompte]

Originally Posted by Aeolwind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

... 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]

Originally Posted by crunkfresh [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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