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<blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 4477076" data-attributes="member: 50304">When I encounter a non-English word in Roman Script I tend to default to using the kind of pronunciation we use for Romanized Japanese and Classical Latin (not to be confused with Ecclesiastical Latin).Ge = &quot;Geh,&quot; since there is no &quot;soft&quot; G in Classical Latin or Romanized Japanese (heck, the Romans didn't even have a &quot;J,&quot; they just used &quot;i&quot; as a Consonant, making a &quot;y-&quot; sound in front of other vowels).Note well that the Roman letters used to spell &quot;Julius Caesar&quot; are actually correctly pronounced - &quot;Yoo-lee-us-Kigh-Sar&quot; and written IULIUSCAESAR. You don't pronounce Cicero or Virgil as &quot;Sissero&quot; or &quot;Verjil&quot; either. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />At any rate, what does this have to do with Genasi? Romanization. When you romanize a word that comes from a language that doesn't use Roman Characters (like Japanese), you shouldn't use &quot;soft G&quot; or &quot;soft C&quot; when you find the sounds of a &quot;J&quot; or &quot;S.&quot; You are just aping the sounds of the native language into your own script, so you use the &quot;pure&quot; script rather than the exceptions.Ergo, when I see a purely fabricated word in a fantasy setting I automatically assume it has been Romanized from whatever make-believe fantasy language it came from - and therefore there is no &quot;Soft G&quot; or &quot;Soft C&quot; to be had.&quot;Genasi&quot; as a Romanization from another language would most likely be &quot;Geh-Nah-See.&quot; &quot;Genasi&quot; as a mutated derivative of &quot;Genie,&quot; however, would be completely different. Considering the Genasi-Genie-Djinn thing is muddled and tenuous at best in 4th Edition I'm just going with &quot;Geh-Nah-See&quot; until I see a definative pronunciation guide.- Marty Lund</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mlund, post: 4477076, member: 50304"] When I encounter a non-English word in Roman Script I tend to default to using the kind of pronunciation we use for Romanized Japanese and Classical Latin (not to be confused with Ecclesiastical Latin). Ge = "Geh," since there is no "soft" G in Classical Latin or Romanized Japanese (heck, the Romans didn't even have a "J," they just used "i" as a Consonant, making a "y-" sound in front of other vowels). Note well that the Roman letters used to spell "Julius Caesar" are actually correctly pronounced - "Yoo-lee-us-Kigh-Sar" and written IULIUSCAESAR. You don't pronounce Cicero or Virgil as "Sissero" or "Verjil" either. :P At any rate, what does this have to do with Genasi? [b]Romanization[/b]. When you romanize a word that comes from a language that doesn't use Roman Characters (like Japanese), you shouldn't use "soft G" or "soft C" when you find the sounds of a "J" or "S." You are just aping the sounds of the native language into your own script, so you use the "pure" script rather than the exceptions. Ergo, when I see a purely fabricated word in a fantasy setting I automatically assume it has been Romanized from whatever make-believe fantasy language it came from - and therefore there is no "Soft G" or "Soft C" to be had. "Genasi" as a Romanization from another language would most likely be "Geh-Nah-See." "Genasi" as a mutated derivative of "Genie," however, would be completely different. Considering the Genasi-Genie-Djinn thing is muddled and tenuous at best in 4th Edition I'm just going with "Geh-Nah-See" until I see a definative pronunciation guide. - Marty Lund [/QUOTE]

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