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chrono eric

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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2009, 10:59:17 pm »
I always pronounced it "Ska-lah".
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2009, 12:45:05 am »
∫ɑ:lɑ:

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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2009, 01:11:21 am »
I pronounce it like this...
http://goear.com/listen.php?v=e7ea4fd

However, most of people I know (my brother XD) pronounce it "Ska-lah".
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2009, 02:11:22 am »
"Sca", like in scab, then "luh".
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #19 on: February 21, 2009, 10:26:12 am »
Quote from: teaflower on February 20, 2009, 10:09:25 pm
I've always referred to Schala as 'SHAH-la'. Although I've seen people say it as 'SHAY-la', 'SKAH-la', and 'SHAH-la-la-la-ding-dong'.

But, you know, until they make a game with voice overs, we'll never truly know. And even then, people still call 'TIH-dus' 'TYE-dus'. Even though Kingdom Hearts calls him the former.

Tih-dus sounds lame. Tye-dus sounds like an awesome man beast. Also Ska-lah.
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #20 on: February 21, 2009, 10:57:37 am »
Schala, for me, equals "SKA-LUH".  Tidus equals "Tye-dus".
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #21 on: February 21, 2009, 11:06:42 am »
I read several replies, and I'm really shocked so many ones read "ska-what"..  :shock:
Doesn't Schnee or Schneider normal western names ? (I don't know how they are actually pronounced, but I think sk- will be veeeeery strange).
Perhaps that's a bad example, I don't know if there are special rules to pronounce a person's name...
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #22 on: February 21, 2009, 12:02:39 pm »
Quote from: utunnels on February 21, 2009, 11:06:42 am
I read several replies, and I'm really shocked so many ones read "ska-what"..  :shock:
Doesn't Schnee or Schneider normal western names ? (I don't know how they are actually pronounced, but I think sk- will be veeeeery strange).
Perhaps that's a bad example, I don't know if there are special rules to pronounce a person's name...

Yes, thank you. I'm from the midwest, which has horrible American accents, and even I arrived at a soft Sh- sound.
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #23 on: February 21, 2009, 12:28:59 pm »
Yeah, I never thought there was another way besides shah-luh...They should have just kept it as Sara.

As for Tidus...I know that tee-dus is more correct according to Japanese pronunciation, but I usually say tye-dus...they both sound stupid to me though...so I think fits with him.

Also, I always hate pronunciation threads. Doesn't part of Square's site or something have a pronunciation key or some such? I thought I recall something like that...*shrugs*
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #24 on: February 21, 2009, 01:51:10 pm »
I think the pronunciation for me is moreso out of habit.  After all, I first played through the game when I was ten, so my reading comprehension and capacity for phonetics was quite different then it is today.  Although "Sha-lah" seems more likely, "Ska-luh" has stayed with me.
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2009, 01:58:13 pm »
Yeah, I think I was 11 when I first played CT, and I admit I pronounced it Ska-lah at first. I finally learned to pronounce it "correctly" when my older sister pronounced it Shaw-lah.

I pronounced Melchior Mel-choir at first too, heh.
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Jutty

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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #26 on: February 21, 2009, 03:10:53 pm »
I played the game when I was 11 or 12 so yeah I've always pronounced it that way. Shahlah sounds weird though. This reminds me of an argument I had with a kid I went to school with. His last name was Buttram. He always claimed it was pronounced Boot-rum, but I argued it would be pronounced Butt-ram.
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2009, 04:25:09 pm »
I know two people named Tidus, both pronounce it Tye-dus.
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #28 on: February 21, 2009, 05:07:22 pm »
Quote from: Jutty on February 21, 2009, 03:10:53 pm
I played the game when I was 11 or 12 so yeah I've always pronounced it that way. Shahlah sounds weird though. This reminds me of an argument I had with a kid I went to school with. His last name was Buttram. He always claimed it was pronounced Boot-rum, but I argued it would be pronounced Butt-ram.

I LOL'd at that.. That's pronounced EL-OH-EL  :lol:
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Re: How do you pronounce 'Schala' ?
« Reply #29 on: February 21, 2009, 05:11:26 pm »
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I know two people named Tidus, both pronounce it Tye-dus.

Really?  Are they male or female?

I remember being at Church Camp long, long ago and meeting a kid names Cyrus... I thought it was legendary (this was post-Chrono Trigger, of course).
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