This has actually also a real word equivalent:Taraxia said:Some of these are real words:If you want, though if you do this I want you to write me up a fictional guide to Suloise orthography and point out why the "ette" phoneme sounds like that.Bulette: BYOO-lay
It's not like it even sounds any better or anything. Apparently WotC thinks random silent letters make you sound cultured.
An Suloise is written in latin letters? That's one hell of a coincidence!Contrarian said:Whenever somebody pulls the "That's not how bulette would be pronounced in French!" crap with me, I alway respond "It's not French, it's Suloise."
Terwox said:My group pronounces "coup de grace" as
"koop duh gracie" (the last word is higher pitched.)
I'm happy with it!
Taraxia said:Note that Stargate SG-1 is a show that does a good job of making the apostrophes pronounceable (and consistently pronounced)...
See, if you hadn't explained in brackets what IPA meant, I could have made a joke about writing anything in India Pale Ale. Spoilsport!shadow said:You ought to write your pronunciation guide using the IPA (International Phonetics Alphabet) for us linguists out there.![]()
Taraxia said:It's a minor thing, but I absolutely hate apostrophes dropped into a word to make it look "fantastic" without actually giving them some meaningful way to change the pronunciation of the word.