Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[gnarlygninja]

One day I will play in a group where everyone, or at least a majority of the other players, will pronounce my character's name correctly.
Today is not that day.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

One day I will play in a group where everyone, or at least a majority of the other players, will pronounce my character's name correctly.
Today is not that day.

Right??? K’thrazz’qel’vhoon doesn't tolerate this mockery.

 

[prabe]

Right??? K’thrazz’qel’vhoon doesn't tolerate this mockery.

Tables I've been at would have called that character "K."

 

[gnarlygninja]

Right??? K’thrazz’qel’vhoon doesn't tolerate this mockery.

Maybe my problem is that I'm not doing names like that. My current character's name is Otho and people are saying it wrong because they add letters.

 

[prabe]

Maybe my problem is that I'm not doing names like that. My current character's name is Otho and people are saying it wrong because they add letters.

That looks like a hard name to persistently mispronounce. I mean, I see a couple-three ways to pronounce it, but they're all simple. (My first guess is long o's, th unvoiced?)

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Tables I've been at would have called that character "K."

Perhaps you misunderstood K’thrazz’qel’vhoon. He doesn't tolerate this mockery.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Maybe my problem is that I'm not doing names like that. My current character's name is Otho and people are saying it wrong because they add letters.

That looks like a hard name to persistently mispronounce. I mean, I see a couple-three ways to pronounce it, but they're all simple. (My first guess is long o's, th unvoiced?)

Yeah! How are these folks pronouncing it?

 

[gnarlygninja]

That looks like a hard name to persistently mispronounce. I mean, I see a couple-three ways to pronounce it, but they're all simple. (My first guess is long o's, th unvoiced?)

You are correct. One player adds an s to the end, one player adds an r after the first o, another player does both. So depending on who's talking it's Othos, Ortho, or Orthos.

 

[prabe]

Perhaps you misunderstood K’thrazz’qel’vhoon. He doesn't tolerate this mockery.

I would point out to K's player that intentionally shortening it is less mocking-ish than persistently stumbling through it and/or mispronouncing it. If there were some other syllable the player would prefer I use, I'd be happy to use that.

I've played at least one character with a more or less unpronounceable name, but it was like twenty years ago. If I were going to make that joke these days, I'd give the other people at the table a break.

 

[prabe]

You are correct. One player adds an s to the end, one player adds an r after the first o, another player does both. So depending on who's talking it's Othos, Ortho, or Orthos.

Of those "Ortho" is the easiest one for me to understand happening. It's a root/prefix (orthopedist) as well as being a brand of gardening chemicals. I suspect the player who's doing both is hearing the other players who are doing one each and combining them.

I understand the frustration, sincerely.