"...the ancient empire of the tieflings..." and Sword & Sorcery gaming

[BBQ]

Personally, I've never had a problem with tiefling, aasimar, or any of the wacky things those planar people say.

 

[Desdichado]

Personally, I've never had a problem with tiefling, aasimar, or any of the wacky things those planar people say.

I still don't know how to pronounce genasi "correctly." Every time I ask, the question sinks like a stone. Probably because nobody knows how to pronounce it.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I still don't know how to pronounce genasi "correctly." Every time I ask, the question sinks like a stone. Probably because nobody knows how to pronounce it.

I always pronounced it Je-nah-zee, with a soft Z sound. I always had issues with Sahuagin.

 

[Irda Ranger]

I still don't know how to pronounce genasi "correctly." Every time I ask, the question sinks like a stone. Probably because nobody knows how to pronounce it.

I say "JEN-ah-sai"

"JE-nass-ee" and "je-NASS-ee" just sound dumb. To me. And I can't think of a better way to say it.

I also avoid pronouncing the 's' like a 'z', since that makes it sound too much like Geh-Nazi.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

I always pronounced it Je-nah-zee, with a soft Z sound. I always had issues with Sahuagin.

I pronounce genasi JEH-nah-see.

I used to pronounce sahuagin SAH-who-uh-gin, but I've heard recently it's SAH-who-AH-gin.

Brad

 

[Desdichado]

I always pronounced it Je-nah-zee, with a soft Z sound. I always had issues with Sahuagin.

I've vacillated back and forth between Je NASS ee and Jena SAI. No idea which (if either) is the intended pronunciation.

I say sahuagin like Sah-hwah-GEEN with a hard g. We had one guy in our group that used to say Suh HOGGin until we made fun of that too much because it sounded so ridiculous.

 

[Daniel D. Fox]

To me, it seems a better idea to use Planetouched as a race, with the Eladrin, Tiefling, Aasimar and the like as subraces. I mean, why toss out nearly eight years of material that allow players to be these races? Why not tie it all together nice and neat with a pretty bow?

 

[Kunimatyu]

Say "sahaugin" as if it's a Spanish word (it's the name of some obscure missionary, I believe), and you'll pronounce it correctly.

 

[Desdichado]

Well, it can't be exactly as if it was a Spanish word---or at least it's unlikely---because the soft 'g' in Spanish is kinda sorta like an 'h' in English. Same thing with names like Jose.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

It's got a nice Anglo-Saxon pedigree, where it was -ingas. I.e., Wulfingas; the people of the wolf. Would be something like Wolfings or Wolflings in modern English.

Like Earthling!

You wacky NorMericans! Why on earth would a single "i" at the end of a word be pronounced to rhyme with "eye"? That only works for made-up plurals like octopi and platypi.

(Not to mention that "jen-ah-SAI" leads to the moronic misspelling "gensai", which cannot be forgiven.)

To me, the pronunciation controversy must be over where the emphasis falls: JEN-ah-see or jeh-NAH-see. I say the latter, because it flows better with the full name of each given race: fire genasi, water genasi, et cetera.

Sahuagin, for me, has always been sa-HWA-gin. That's a throaty elision of the "hoo-wa" into "hwa".