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<blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 2192844" data-attributes="member: 17969">If you were to one to introduce gaelic into the campaign, then it's reasonable that you make an effort to pronounce it properly.&nbsp; Otherwise, you should have just called it a throwing dirk.Most languages have fairly uniform phonetics.&nbsp; While words are rarely pronounced how they would be if they were english words, It's usually fairly easy to pick up the pronunciation well enough that you don't sound like an idiot when we attempt the pronucniation.French is a perfect example of this.&nbsp; Most of us have heard enough French words proncounced that we automatically pronounce the eaux as oh.&nbsp; When we see a word that looks french, we automatically simplify the apparent tripthongs into simple vowel sounds, and drop the end consonants.&nbsp; Ocassionally, we over-apply the rule (the c in coup de grace is an s sound), but even when we do, it sounds like it's right, even if it isn't.&nbsp; But if you don't actually know what a glottal stop is, then you have no business inserting apostrophes into the proper nouns in your flavor text.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="arscott, post: 2192844, member: 17969"] If you were to one to introduce gaelic into the campaign, then it's reasonable that you make an effort to pronounce it properly. Otherwise, you should have just called it a throwing dirk. Most languages have fairly uniform phonetics. While words are rarely pronounced how they would be if they were english words, It's usually fairly easy to pick up the pronunciation well enough that you don't sound like an idiot when we attempt the pronucniation. French is a perfect example of this. Most of us have heard enough French words proncounced that we automatically pronounce the eaux as oh. When we see a word that looks french, we automatically simplify the apparent tripthongs into simple vowel sounds, and drop the end consonants. Ocassionally, we over-apply the rule (the c in coup de grace is an s sound), but even when we do, it sounds like it's right, even if it isn't. But if you don't actually know what a glottal stop is, then you have no business inserting apostrophes into the proper nouns in your flavor text. [/QUOTE]

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