mos6507 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Like the way Brits say "SHED-jew-ul" but Americans say "SKED-jew-ul." Kind of like Patrick Stewart, who was presumably supposed to be a frenchman on ST:TNG but in no way shape or form acted like one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 It's my feeling that the ambiguity of the pronunciation of a lot of computer terms is a sign of the social isolation that most computer geeks suffer from, where these things exist almost exclusively as characters on a computer monitor rather than spoken in conversation. Maybe that's less so now, but not entirely gone when dealing with more specialized terms. True. I don't think that phenomenon is limited to geeks or to technical terms, either; perhaps it's also reflective of a lack of linguistic skills. I've noticed that words or phrases that seldom appear in everyday conversation are often mispronounced by the general population, either verbally or in the mind of the reader, when they are encountered in print. One example I've noticed is the title of the game "Deus Ex"; most people pronounced it "doos-sex", never knowing that it is part of the literary term deus ex machina, pronounced /ˈdiː.əs ɛks ˈmækɨnə/. Then, of course, there's the opposite phenomenon of words or phrases that are mangled because people echo them as they hear them without ever seeing them in print: "you Midas well," "for all intensive purposes," etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 (edited) Kind of like Patrick Stewart, who was presumably supposed to be a frenchman on ST:TNG but in no way shape or form acted like one. Yes. Unfortunately, actors who are not French run a real risk when they attempt to accurately portray Frenchmen on film. Unlike any other bad accent in the world, a bad French accent is always funny, intentionally or not. I blame the ghost of Inspector Clouseau. Edited November 17, 2009 by jaybird3rd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 The correct s'uthern drawl pronunciation for "Imagic" is a combination of "image" and "magic". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 So how do you pronounce Xonox? on-ox? zon-ox? Epyx? E-pix eh-pix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 I always pronounced it e-magic, as if you said the letter e. I thought I was right.. I guess not. ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbarius Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 (edited) So how do you pronounce Xonox? on-ox? zon-ox? Epyx? E-pix eh-pix? I'd vote for "Xo-nox" ("kzo-nox") and "eh-pix"... (just like the word "epic") Edited November 18, 2009 by Herbarius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 So how do you pronounce Xonox? on-ox? zon-ox? Epyx? E-pix eh-pix? KAY-tell. It's their parent company. I don't know the proper way to say Xonox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Find a copy of the documentary "All In The Game," which was filmed at Imagic "back in the day." Everybody at the company from Bill Grubb on down pronounces it with a short "I", so I can only assume that's the correct way to pronounce it. People who pronounce it differently are probably the same people who call the Atari 2600 "the Atari two-six-oh-oh". I know this is an old thread, but people probably still look at it. My pronunciation page has a new entry for Imagic. (I also have an entry for GIF.) How to pronounce Imagic: randomterrain.com/rt-how-to-pronounce-words-in-the-usa.html#imagic How to pronounce GIF: randomterrain.com/rt-how-to-pronounce-words-in-the-usa.html#gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machine Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 I know this is an old thread, but people probably still look at it. My pronunciation page has a new entry for Imagic. (I also have an entry for GIF.) How to pronounce Imagic: randomterrain.com/rt-how-to-pronounce-words-in-the-usa.html#imagic How to pronounce GIF: randomterrain.com/rt-how-to-pronounce-words-in-the-usa.html#gif I have been pronouncing 75% of those words wharung. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluxit Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Eye prefer ee-may-geese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 I usually pronounce it Eye-Magic,but you're right; it should be I-(as in him)-Magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Huh... I didn't know GIF stood for Giraffics Interchange Format. News to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiohead Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 I always thought it was "Eh-magic", a creative contraction of the word "Imagination". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 So how do you pronounce Xonox? on-ox? zon-ox? Epyx? E-pix eh-pix? I usually say X-Nox, which is probably wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 (edited) Huh... I didn't know GIF stood for Giraffics Interchange Format. News to me. Even if the format's creator pronounces it like a certain brand of peanut butter, I think I'll keep pronouncing it like giggle. Hey, a lot of GIF do make you giggle, right? Edited March 6, 2019 by pacman000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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