Monster names: how do you pronounce them?

Jakob · Post by **Jakob** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:48 am

Hi guys,

Remember, I'm asking from a non-anglophone point of view.

How do you pronounce the names "Goblyn" and Vampyre"?
How are they different from "goblin" and "vampire"?

Thanks a lot in advance!
J

Pamela · Post by **Pamela** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:04 am

Same way as you'd pronounce 'goblin' and 'vampire'. It's just an alternate, old-fashioned spelling. Kind of like 'magick'.

Jakob · Post by **Jakob** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:58 am

*Sigh*
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Well, guess I'll have to invent a new pronounce myself!

Rotipher of the FoS · Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:14 am

If you need a different pronunciation for your game, to distinguish between the two while discussing such monsters, try vocalizing the "y" in each name as "ee" rather than "i".

So you have "goblyn" (rhymes with "seen") vs "goblin" (rhymes with "tin"), and "vampeer" (rhymes with "deer") vs. "vampire" (rhymes with "fire"). It sounds a bit like a foreign accent, but it's distinguishable from the 'standard' monsters' pronunciations.

Jasper · Post by **Jasper** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:55 am

The way I allways did them was like this:

Goblin: GOB (rhymes with cob)- lin

Goblyn: GOBE (Long O as in Go. Sound like Gabe with a O)- lin

Vampire: Pire (pronounced like a funeral pyre)

Vampyre: Pyre (Pronounced like PEER. As the Coney Island Peer)

We realy do need a thing similer to what Planscape did at its hieghht. On the TSr website they had a downloadable file were it had all the tricky demon names and the location names in WAV files spoken by the Planscape writers.

Next project for the Frat (hint hint, wink hope)?

alhoon · Post by **alhoon** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:05 pm

Goblin: GOB-lin
Boblyn: gob-LA-in
Vampire: vam-PA-ir
Vampyre: vam-PI-rr (yes, two rs)

the last two as Jasper proposed

Undead Cabbage · Post by **Undead Cabbage** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:09 am

This is a bit of a tricky situation.

Vampire sounds like VampEEr (as is proposed).

To make things even more complicated, VampEEr sounds like Dharmpir, a half vampire.

This will inevitably lead to players joking about how someone at the switch ran out of names.

Kouta Hirano (the Author of the Manga 'Hellsing') used another term for Vampires that were 'true' vampires called a 'Midian'. Although this has almost nothing to do with the historical Midians, Midian sounds relatively cool, and it's quite different from Vampire and Dharmpir. Other people may have completely different terms as well. Just, I find it kind of impratical that those two are so much alike. In the end, its a toss up over whats more important: canonization, or praticallity.

TwiceBorn · Post by **TwiceBorn** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:56 am

If it helps at all, "y" in Danish is a sharp "u" sound. Vampyr therefore would sound like "vampur" (the "pur" would sound much as it would in French)... if this makes any sense...

Jakob · Post by **Jakob** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:42 pm

So, the "y" would sound like the Greek upsilon...
I like it on Vampyr.

Anyway, in Italy, "Gublin" would sound like a goblin coming from the city of Bergamo (the magic of Italian dialect never ceases to amaze me), so, I think i'd rather say Gob-la-in.

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Monster names: how do you pronounce them?

Monster names: how do you pronounce them?