Champion names being pronounced incorrectly

stealthfox94·Feb 8, 2015·1 votes·915 views

Dare e us not Darie us Eh relia nor I-rylia Heck a rim not Hece a rim the second A is silent Ali star not Ali ster Lu not Lu see an I swear I've heard people say it with an h

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DeadlyQuestionFeb 8, 20155 votes

Wait wait wait wait wait. Who made OP THE judge on pronouncing champion names?

What? No one?

The only people who can actually tell anyone the proper pronunciation are the Rioters who named them OR the rules of the language their name is borrowed from (if whoever named Xin Zhao says it's suppose to be "Ex-in Zee-how", I am still pronouncing it by Pinyin rules).

Yeah, sure, some of them are obviously pronounced one way, but when there is nothing in the client to canonize a name's pronunciation (like a champion taunt/joke referencing themselves or another champion), you pronouncing it reasonably based on what you hear from your friends, YouTube videos, streams, language rules is perfectly acceptable.

Akali for example.. Since my friends pronounced Vi's name [V-EYE], I assumed all other champions that ended with 'i' would carry the same phonetic, so I pronounced it "Ack-uh-lye." That's neither my fault, nor should it be considered wrong.

If someone pronounces a name wrong and you feel the need to correct them, fucking cut your tongue out and go petition Riot to put an ominous voice pronouncing it on selection like in Mortal Kombat before the champion's selection quote, or however else they want to do it. But until then, ambiguous names can be pronounced however the hell anyone wants to within reason.

Other champions with names I don't officially know how to pronounce that haven't been listed by OP or me, that I've heard pronounced different ways by friends or streams, that I consider neither to be wrong: JarvanIV Juh-arven? Yarven? Kalista Ka-leesta? Ka-list-uh? Kennen Kee-nin? Keh-nin? Lissandra Liss-ANdruh? Liss-AHNdra? Nasus NAY suhs? NAH suhs? NAY/NAH soos? Rengar Ren-gar? RANGar? Riven rEYE vin? Riven? (like River) Ryze Riz? Rise? Shaco shAYko? shAHko? Shacko? Sona SOHna? Sah-na? Soraka SorAYka? SorAHka? Udyr Oo-Deer? Yuu-Deer? Oo/Yuu- Der? Duhr? Urgot Err-got? Err-go? Veigar VAYgar? Veegar? (This one is obvious to me, but still)

A. Just because you and your friends have always pronounced them one way, doesn't make the others wrong. B. Just because a specific Rioter pronounces it one way, doesn't make them right, unless they're implying they're officially clearing up the confusion of pronouncing that champion's name. C. If any of these are said somewhere in the game or by a Riot video, I was unaware, and I'll take down that champion.

In my opinion, Riot doesn't give a shit how you pronounce it, or they'd have every champion name said aloud somewhere on the client or in the game. And if Riot doesn't care, you shouldn't pitch a bitch fit about it.

stealthfox94Feb 8, 20151 votes

Ryze Riven Soraka and Lissandra Have all been pronounced correctly by multiple people. Veigar and Shaco have been pronounced differently by multiple people.

DeadlyQuestionFeb 14, 20151 votes

By "correctly' do you mean "similarly" ?

JubbinautFeb 8, 20151 votes

{quoted} Ka-leesta? Ka-list-uh?

Given the champion's apparent Grecian influences, probably Kahl-is-stah: Source

rEYE vin? Riven? (like River)

Probably Riv-uhn: Source

SOHna? Sah-na?

I'd guess "soh-nah" based on her musical theme (as in a shortened form of "sonata").

Err-got? Err-go?

Either "ur-guht" or "ur-got" are acceptable: Source

Of course, those are just once that I know because of the fairly evident sources of their names.

DeadlyQuestionFeb 9, 20151 votes

I asked why a friend thought it was pronounced sAH-na, she said because of the word "sonic," which is relating to sound waves :shrug: Valid point.

JubbinautFeb 9, 20151 votes

Eh. That's why I didn't hard source that one, and offered it only as a guess. I dug to be sure there wasn't something more specific, but didn't find anything. I'd say both are reasonable, but for personal preference, I'd go with the actual music term when referring to the musician.

AerothalFeb 9, 20151 votes

{quoted}

I asked why a friend thought it was pronounced sAH-na, she said because of the word "sonic," which is relating to sound waves :shrug: Valid point.

sonar...sona...sones... he is wrong

and sonic is pronounced as if it was spelled with two n. there is no -Ah- sound anywhere near that word!

DeadlyQuestionFeb 14, 20151 votes

How can you say he's wrong when you just provided a clear argument for his pronunciation? If "sonic" is pronounced as if it has two N's, implying the spelling is incorrect, then Sona could also be pronounced like it has two N's. Also, people argue that "SONAR" is mispronounced because SO stands for "SOund," which sounds completely different to know the acronym is pronounced.

He isn't actually wrong or specifically correct. It's subjective.

TransChaserFeb 8, 20151 votes

Not to mention the famous Xin Zhao

SEKAIFeb 8, 20151 votes

I pronounce Lulu as Lul - u, gimme cookies NOW.

stealthfox94Feb 8, 20151 votes

I guess that's acceptable.

AerothalFeb 9, 20151 votes

As long as you don't call VEE, i dont care. No wait... Nidalee its called Nidda-lee, not Ni-DAH-Lee.

damn, i do care QQ

EleshakaiFeb 9, 20151 votes

It's Nee-duh-lee everyone. Problem solved.

INTER5TELLARFeb 9, 20151 votes

As a person with an family history of Finnish and Swedish who understands the pronunciation of their words, hearing the way people/Rito says JarvanIV and Teemo has always D Riven me crazy.