How do you pronounce mana?

[Excellio]

Where's the option for the rare "May-nuh"?

[Joyelle]

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

This is like Spanish or Italian people who decide to turn on their full accents whenever they say one word from their native language.

I can't stand when people are speaking normally, and then say Par-meh-gan-o!

Mah-nuh just makes you sound like a douche.

ugh gawd Giada De Laurentiis makes me nauseous doing this very thing while over enunciating every single word she says.

[Seaweedpimp]

fukin man nah~

[Striiker]

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

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All other butchered words work this way. I still don't know how to say peridot correctly for sure. Never ever heard the word used from a reliable source, only other eq players who likely made up the pronunciation for himself like I did.

I've heard it pronounced peri-doh on TV and from other non-EQ people. I always thought in my head it sounding like peri-dot. This is further cemented in my head when people ask for dots. The widely accepted pronunciation is peri-doh but we EQ'ers are a funny bunch and call them what ever we want. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[xshayla701]

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

ugh gawd Giada De Laurentiis makes me nauseous doing this very thing while over enunciating every single word she says.

OMG i love you for knowing giada and hating the way she says italian words

[quellren]

You know why there's a debate of how to say it? BECAUSE NO ONE USES IT IN REAL LIFE.

Watching people argue over the pronunciation of a word that is virtually only ever used in one specific genre of video game is amusing to say the least.

Also, it's man-uh. I don't care how it was pronounced two thousand years ago, Mah-nuh makes you sound pretentious and uppity.

[Jakanden]

I have always pronounced it "mah - nuh". No particular reason behind it although I can only assume that was how I first heard it.

[jarshale]

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

Best not to ask how to pronounce 'melee' then...woops.

I pronounce it "meh-lay". But honestly I have no idea.

also, "man-uh

[bonehand]

Neither, it is phonetically, mah-nah...man-uh, is intolerable gibberish!

What makes this word most unique, is that it does not derive from a western language, nor even middle-eastern, both from which so much of our fantasy-roleplay-folklore has been interpretted. It is a concept taken from the Maori and other pacific islanders only recently. So, your Magi, Magus, or Wu didn't use Mana...

[Ele]

Melee = May Lay, not Me-Lee
Mana = Man-Uh
Peridot = Pear-i-dot or Pear-i-dough, both are correct
sepulcher = sep-ul-ker, not se-pul-chur