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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorhook" data-source="post: 4475230" data-attributes="member: 58401">...So it appears there is no "official pronunciation" for this word, if this thread is any indication. In this thread, there's already nearly sixty replies from a huge range of informed and semi-informed people, including official WotC staffers, community-renowned freelancers, and hobbists and D&D geeks of every stripe, from a fairly wide variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It's not a huge sample, but it's not bad either, and given the lore and hobby-knowledge some of these posters have, I think that if an "official pronunciation" existed anywhere, at least somebody would know it. Thus, I am no longer expecting an "official pronunciation" to appear, nor am I confident that Monte Cook's pronunciation of "genasi" will settle anything. (I'm still curious about how he does pronounce it, though.)That said, a significant number of posters apparently pronounce "genasi" similar to "jen-NA-see". (Don't beat me up if either my transcription or my counting is wrong! For our purposes, though, I think it's okay.)/d͡ʒзnα:si/ = 14 (Soft G, "jen-NA-see") /d͡ʒinα:si/ = 1 /d͡ʒi:nαzi/ = 1 /ʒзnα:si/ = 1 /gзnα:si/ = 5 (Hard G, "gen-NA-see") /gз:nαzi/ = 1 /d͡ʒзnαsaɪ/ = 6 (Sounds like "genocide") /gзnsaɪ/ or /d͡ʒзnsaɪ/ = 3 ("gen-sai" or "jen-sai") /gзnαsi:/ or /d͡ʒзnαsi:/ = 1 Rhymes with cow = 1 My next question is whether or not "we", the community, have the mandate to make this slightly dominant pronunciation (semi-)official. IMHO, there's both enough support for and a decent enough case to be made in favour of "jen-NA-see" (or something similar). In other words, can we agree on a pronunciation and declare, "Look, world! We, the English-speaking D&D community have agreed to pronounce the word "Genasi" as ______!"?Does it even matter this much? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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