Pronunciation: VISCERA (and others)

[FlippyCake]

It's Vi-ce-ra. According to the in game Ego audio.

[Indra Echo]

"Vissera"

I'm curious about the plural form, though :

- VISCERAS, classical, common.

or

- VISCERAE, latin-style, perhaps more elitist.

For my part, I have always assumed it was Viscerae. Feel free to contradict me

As I said viscera is already a plural word so yes I am contradicting you.

It is plural for viscus. It means the internal organs in the body. So you would not pluralize a word that already means more than one. It would be like saying weapons and trying to mean more than one weapons.

[JxSiN]

I've never heard her say it either! Well, that solves that I guess.

Good call on Scrip @A s0t

Oh, and is it just me, or has Varus said Script, not Scrip on occasion. One instance is in the Explosions 101 and maybe on a side mission?

I know there are NUMEROUS, more important issues we are concerned about than this thread, but, just askin'.

It is very rare that she does. I think I may have heard her say it a total of two times, but she could have said it more--- I tune her out. I think both times were also during emergencies.

[four]

The guns are pulsers and tachmag pulsers.. Not pulsArs! <--- I cannot stand that lol

[JxSiN]

It's scrip not script, immunizer not immuniziner-as one guy kept saying, Mare-in not morin, sossaleeto and not soselto, mu dare ah and not madra, volj and not volgh, shon doo and not shon duh, and more.

Lol, I am lucky I lived in that area, thus know how those places are pronounced. Oh, and thank God that they shortened Mount Tam instead of using its full name (Mount Tamalpais). Oh the hilarity that would have been.

Also,
Gren-a-deer not grenade-er
Mash-een-ist not Mash-in-ist
Can-non-eer not Can-ee-nur
Carbine can be pronounced both as Carb-ine or carb-een. Both are correct
Sie-fon, and can be spelled as syphon, siphon or cyphon as there really is not a correct Romanized way to spell it (it's Greek)
Gur-ill-a not Go-rill-a. A gorilla is an animal, a guerilla refers to a person
Eve-is-er-a-tore not eve-isk-er-a-tur
Tack-ee-on not tash-ee-on

I feel so much better now

[Sanguinesun]

Ask your Japanese friend to read a word "Viscera" And you will know as I call it.

bee-seh-rah. No /v/ or /I/ in Japanese so it tends to be pronounced as the bilabial voiced ビ in the first set.

[four]

Lol, I am lucky I lived in that area, thus know how those places are pronounced. Oh, and thank God that they shortened Mount Tam instead of using its full name (Mount Tamalpais). Oh the hilarity that would have been.

Also,
Gren-a-deer not grenade-er
Mash-een-ist not Mash-in-ist
Can-non-eer not Can-ee-nur
Carbine can be pronounced both as Carb-ine or carb-een. Both are correct
Sie-fon, and can be spelled as syphon, siphon or cyphon as there really is not a correct Romanized way to spell it (it's Greek)
Gur-ill-a not Go-rill-a. A gorilla is an animal, a guerilla refers to a person
Eve-is-er-a-tore not eve-isk-er-a-tur
Tack-ee-on not tash-ee-on

I feel so much better now

you made me feel better too lol kudos!
another one I used to hear at major hellbug arkfalls was matriarch... There's a matron and there are monarchs lol no matriarch!

[JxSiN]

bee-seh-rah. No /v/ or /I/ in Japanese so it tends to be pronounced as the bilabial voiced ビ in the first set.

Almost the same in Arabic. There is no V so it would also use the letter ب which is baa (or B). However, an Arabic speaker would look at it and pronounce it Bee-skr-aa keeping the K sound and omitting the soft E. An Arabic speaker who knew the K was silent would transliterate it Bee-sr-aa

[Codex]

I'm not saying they were wrong, they were probably in fact far more right as to how it maybe should be pronounced. But language is alive and different dialects all pronounce things differently and as you say things do change. So where I come from it's vissera, but I've heard people really struggle in the game to pronounce it and so it comes out vie sarah.

My family comes from Canada-so my mother would have probably agreed with the pronuciation-having had to take Latin in school. When I was in high school, I was one of 13 students who signed up for the Latin elective class so it was canceled. And it would seem really odd to go around saying "I had a viskeral reaction". But as an older person I've also been able to witness language change--Uranus and harassment are just two words. Truthiness is another.

It's scrip not script, immunizer not immuniziner-as one guy kept saying, Mare-in not morin, sossaleeto and not soselto, mu dare ah and not madra, volj and not volgh, shon doo and not shon duh, and more.

:P Well, I am also Canadian, so we have that in common. My mother is British though, so she may have just learned it super differently. I agree with you on the living language point however.

[A s0t]

Almost the same in Arabic. There is no V so it would also use the letter ب which is baa (or B). However, an Arabic speaker would look at it and pronounce it Bee-skr-aa keeping the K sound and omitting the soft E. An Arabic speaker who knew the K was silent would transliterate it Bee-sr-aa

what is it in Klingon?