Pronunciation Guide

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Pronunciation Guide

RavenB 1169938724|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi folks!

I've added a pronunciation guide to the side nav bar. This is not a place to list every weird word that is invented for Metamor Keep, but a set of rules and guidelines for creating a consistent set of phonetic notation. I'm hoping that we'll all be able to use this notation system in our wiki entries to make things more pronounceable for the average reader.

All of the special characters used in the guide are found in the Windows Character Map. I've also included the Unicode numbers to make it easier to look up the symbols. (Remember Unicode is in four digit hexadecimal, so each digit goes from 0 to F.)

I haven't added any exclusively-foreign phonemes, like the French nasal at the end of denouement. If a foreign phoneme is needed to pronounce any words in the MK glossary, post a message about it here and I'll add a symbol for it to the guide.

Let me know if you have any questions. Hopefully this will make things easier for people in the long run, and not just more confusing…

Re: Pronunciation Guide

MatthiasRat 1169955468|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Uh, Raven, I can barely follow pronunciation guides in the dictionary, let alone use them myself. I'm really sorry, but I won't be able to make any use of this. I can speak how I want my character names pronounced, but that's not the same thing as defining it.

Re: Pronunciation Guide

RavenB 1169966225|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hm. Well, do you have a microphone? Perhaps you could record the pronunciations as MP3 or Og Vorbis files and then send them to me — or upload them to your website and then link to them here. If I could hear them, then I could translate them into a phonetic representation for use on the wiki.