Bartimaeus which my accent fucks up.
Faquarl. Which I knew was wrong and thought I’d rectified recently.
And Asmira. That one was a very Wtf moment.
Bartimaeus I say as bar-UH-may-us. My accent takes the tee sound out of everything. I do know how its mean’t to sound.
Faquarl was FHAR-kwul until I actually looked at the r and realised it was mean’t to be fhar-kwarl with no stress. It’s actually mean’t to be fuh-KWARL apparently. Which is funny cause it sounds like fuck all.
And Asmira I thought was az-MEER-ah. Apparently it’s az-muh-RAH. What!?
(Jonathan Stroud also pronounces Ptolemy as toll-me as well which is weird. Its definitely historically said as toll-em-ee.)
Ignoring bart, i can’t be the only one who pronounces these names like this. Asmira for definite. Does anyone else ???
well, considering that I read the books in German, I pronounce most of the names differently because they changed them for the translation
Bartimaeus = Bartimäus (sounds almost the same though)
Nathaniel= Nathanael (nuh-TA-nuh-ale)
Ptolemy= Ptolemäus
Solomon= Salomo
hellalara reblogged this from jmandrake and added:
I definitely thought it was “FHAR-kwall”. I always wind up putting letters where they shouldn’t be or mixing them up...
jmandrake reblogged this from quin13 and added:
God, I said Faquarl exactly the same way as you did. (I think I finally figured out how to pronounce it correctly, but...
fetzes reblogged this from quin13 and added:
well, considering that I read the books in German, I pronounce most of the names differently because they changed them...
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beclectica said:
i was definitely one of the people pronouncing Asmira the wrong way, and as for Faquarl i tend to trip over the f’s and the q’s so it just ends up as Fraqarlakglla
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beam-me-up-assbutt said:
I do the same thing with the last two….
matushka-rossiya said:
I pronounce the names in the German way…ähm Bartimaeus with an ‘ä’ ‘Barti(i is like a ‘ee’)-mä(similar like ‘ae’)us’ and Faquarl like ‘Fa-Karl’ and Asmira like ‘As-mira’
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stolidity said:
until I was like 13 I pronounced bartimaeus without the ae because it confused me. I definitely pronounce asmira wrong and I’ve heard ptolemy pronounced differently by various scholars so who the fuck knows.
chadefallstar said:
I pronounce all names in the frenchest way possible, something like “bart-ee-may-uss” “fah-karl” “as-mee-rah” “pto-lay-mee” whatever whatever i do what i want
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