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Me and a friend of mine where arguing about how you prononced Reina. How would you pronounce it.

Rain-a

or his

ra-i-na

or somthing else. Thanks.

I always figured it was pronounced the same as her name in FFVj: 'Lenna', but with an 'R'.

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So you are saying Renna? Ren-na or Ren-a or possibly Re-na?

This post has been edited by finalfantasygirl on 7th August 2005 08:04

I've always said it 'RAY-na.'

I say it 'Ray-na' too. Not 'Rei-na', 'Ren-na', or 'Bo-b', but 'Ray-na'. Others however clearly say it in other ways, so it's all good.

However, I also say Choc-Oh-Bo, Tee-Fa, Nah-Nah-Khi, Sell-Es, Strah-Go, Zi-Dan, and to pronounce the name of the lead character of FF8, I say 'tw-it'. Perhaps it's a British thing... but nonetheless, those other pronuciations may be veiwed very differently by others, and that proves one thing: Only the person who invented the name can tell us how to pronounce it, and it's a little more characterful, IMO, to allow varying pronuciations.

(Any issues with my pronuciations of words other that Reina should naturally be taken up in a PM as they're technically off topic and only there to illustrate that I have a few other pronuciations that may be seen as a bit iffy)

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I pronounce it "RAY nah". However, I personally prefer the name Lenna.

For reference, I possess an Amerian English ('Americanese'?) accent, and I say CHOH coh boh, nah NAH key, SEE lees, STRAY goh, SEE sill, BUTZ, CARE-ah, GWEE doh, FAIR iss.

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Ok. I was right. It is Rain-a. Same with Ray-na. So he said he knew japanese. No way.

Ok this is alittle offtopic.. well the whole tread is, here are the translations.

Terra, Locke, Cyan, bla bla bla

Thanks all

Guido is the wrong translation for some reason

This post has been edited by finalfantasygirl on 7th August 2005 19:12

That sound bite is cool. How the heck did you find it?

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John: So you don't want your screen saver to come on for another four hours?
Me: Where does it say that?
John: Here where it was 240 minutes.
Me: Is that four hours?
John: Yeah, 60 X 4.
Me: Is that four hours, though?
John: ....They'll never take you back in school.

xD;

I pronouce Reina as RAY-NA and Lenna as LAN-AH.

Bartz as BAHRTS and Butz as BUTT-S (lol)

Faris as FAIR-IS

Galuf as GAL-UHF

Krile as CRIH-L and Cara as CAR-AH

lol, Butts

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John: So you don't want your screen saver to come on for another four hours?
Me: Where does it say that?
John: Here where it was 240 minutes.
Me: Is that four hours?
John: Yeah, 60 X 4.
Me: Is that four hours, though?
John: ....They'll never take you back in school.

xD;

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So you are saying Renna? Ren-na or Ren-a or possibly Re-na?

It'd depend on one's pronounciation of "Lenna". Personally, I pronounce it more like "Lay-nah", so yeah, "Ray-nah". Basically the same way everyone else described.

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Bartz as BAHRTS and Butz as BUTT-S (lol)

Last I heard, the correct pronounciation for "Butz" is actually "Bahtz". Can't remember the source.

And that sound clip seems to be a little off on a few names, 'specially Cyan and Celes. "Cyan" is supposed to have a 'K' sound at the beginning, like the Japanese variant "Kian" or "Cayenne", instead of a 'C' sound like the color it just happens to share its spelling with. "Celes" is supposed to have emphasis on the 'es', giving it a more "Cel-EEs" sound rather than any similarity to the word "celestial".

Course, that's horribly off-topic, so I should shut up while I'm at it.

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Fixed a typo

This post has been edited by SilverFork on 8th August 2005 06:35

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Words of Wisdom:

If something can go wrong, it will.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. - Murphy’s Law

Boing! Zoom! - Mr. Saturn

Well thanks for all of your help.

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