How to correctly pronounce:

vreza

I'm always not sure if i pronounce these terms right.

1. Bezier
2. Biped
3. Anti-aliasing
4. Mitchell-Netravali
5. Adobe
6. Skype

Oniram

may be different for some people but here's how i pronounce them .

1. (beh-zee-ay)
2. just like its spelled (bi-ped)
3. (ant-eye ay-lee-ace-ing)
4. (mit-chull) second part no clue
5. (uh-doh-bee)
6. (sky-p) thatd be just the P sound, not the way the letter is said.

dempolys

Oniram wrote: »

may be different for some people but here's how i pronounce them .

1. (beh-zee-ay)
2. just like its spelled (bai-ped)
3. (ant-eye ay-lee-ace-ing)
4. (mit-chull) second part no clue
5. (ah-doh-bee)
6. (sky-ip)(rhymes with the word 'type')

corrected

Andreas

vreza wrote: »

4. Mitchell-Netravali

wwwhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? Is this a shader? Never come across it before.

DrunkShaman

*Removed*

I thought this was just for fun..x.x

Carry on please.

dempolys

Nitewalkr wrote: »

Nice work!

Can you pronounce:

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism..??

yes i can: "FFFFffffuuuuuuuuuu"

Oniram

dempolys wrote: »

1. (beh-zee-ay)
2. just like its spelled (bai-ped)
3. (ant-eye ay-lee-ace-ing)
4. (mit-chull) second part no clue
5. (ah-doh-bee)
6. (sky-ip)(rhymes with the word 'type')

corrected

eehhhhhhhhh...

id say maybe bai doesnt really give the BI sound. maybe BY but bai sort of gives a "bay" sound.

sky-ip... no. rhymes with type yes.. but skyip does not rhyme with type.

:P

DrunkShaman

dempolys wrote: »

yes i can: "FFFFffffuuuuuuuuuu"

I EDITED MY POST

Sorry!!

dempolys

Oniram wrote: »

eehhhhhhhhh...

id say maybe bai doesnt really give the BI sound. maybe BY but bai sort of gives a "bay" sound.

sky-ip... no. rhymes with type yes.. but skyip does not rhyme with type.

:P

pretty sure that's how you phonetically spell those words dude. Look up;

biped [ˈbaɪ-pɛd]
n

type [ta-ɪp]
n

so i guess Skype should be [Ska-Ip]

Shiniku

When it comes to these terms and a lot of others I know a lot of people who say them very different ways, gets confusing, haha.

Here's one that I would like a definitive answer on:
Wacom
Is it.. way-com, wak-em or wah-kum or what?

Alberto Rdrgz

^ i was going to say the same thing, it's a bit of toMAYto, toMAHto.

Jessica Dinh

i wanted to troll him then i realized american english is probably not his first language

see, i'm being less of a cow like i promised

New Year's Resolutions ftw! x]

Here's one that I would like a definitive answer on:
Wacom
Is it.. way-com, wak-em or wah-kum or what?

Way-com for me, but as Alberto says, it's probably just however you want to say it haha.

Kwramm

for the canadians: ze-brush or zed-brush?

DrunkShaman

Kwramm wrote: »

for the canadians: ze-brush or zed-brush?

Zee Bee Yo

moose

WHACK-EM
WAY-COM
DONT-CARE

Computron

The official way to pronounce wacom is Wah-Com. Rhymes with Block'em.

leilei

vreza wrote: »

5. Adobe

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npp6ZF1L5-E"]How To Pronounce Adobe - YouTube[/ame]

glynnsmith

Computron wrote: »

The official way to pronounce wacom is Wah-Com. Rhymes with Block'em.

How does "wah-com" rhyme with "block'em"? Surely it's be black'om?

So - Whack-Om. That's the way to say Wacom. No other way exists. You can attempt it, but your mouth will fall off.

PixelMasher

anotherone i always hear people even industry vets saying is pronouncing Fresnel as (fres-nel) when it should actually be pronounced (fre-nel)

vreza

thx guys.

PixelMasher wrote: »

anotherone i always hear people even industry vets saying is pronouncing Fresnel as (fres-nel) when it should actually be pronounced (fre-nel)

i also met someone who pronounced it fre-nel. guess thats the correct way huh?

vreza

oh another one, do u say GUI like gooey, or spell it out (G-U-I)? same thing with HUD: Hood or H-U-D ?

DrunkShaman

vreza wrote: »

oh another one, do u say GUI like gooey, or spell it out (G-U-I)? same thing with HUD: Hood or H-U-D ?

My professor used to say GOOEY, I say G-U-I unit or Gra-phx us-er in-ter-fa-ce.

Because many people I talk to have no idea what GUI is and what it stands for.

Not sure about HUD because I never used it in any conversation.

Steve Schulze

HUD stands for "Head Up Display". Pronouncing it "Hood" makes no sense.

Wacom is pronounced "Way-com". Anyone who says different has a head full of crazy, and if that includes the developers of the peripheral, then I guess it was developed by crazy-head people.

System

Heh, I think it's completely optional how anyone wants to pronounce Wacom, but I'm pretty sure the 'official' way is Wa as in 'wah' and com as in '.com' since Wacom is a Japanese company and there isn't a Japanase character that is pronounced 'way'.

I would imagine that the Japanese spelling is probably ワコム which would be pronounced Wah Com (u).

I'm not sure what Wakomu means but I'm sure someone with more Japanese speaking ability than me would know.

Andreas

Kwramm wrote: »

for the canadians: ze-brush or zed-brush?

Just for the canadians? I call it ZBrush, but everyone whose ever made a Zbrush video seems to call it ZedBrush....

Tom Pritchard

I'm British, so it's zed-brush for me.

dempolys

Wacom is pronounced Wah-Com.
Says so on their AboutPage.
It's a fusion of two japanese words. Wa is for "harmony" or "circle", and Komu for "computer".


Z-Brush gets its name because your painting/sculpting in the Z axis, instead of just the usual Y and X axis with regular canvas.
So technically if its just the letter before brush then I imagine you say it however your nation says "Z".

Andreas

vreza wrote: »

oh another one, do u say GUI like gooey, or spell it out (G-U-I)? same thing with HUD: Hood or H-U-D ?

I say gooey.

TrevorJ

im surprised no ones asked about fresnel. not Freznel

dempolys

TrevorJ wrote: »

im surprised no ones asked about fresnel. not Freznel

You haven't read the thread properly.

TrevorJ

really? cause i was pretty sure people were asking about words they weren't sure how to pronounce that are common in computer graphics. I just often hear Fresnel(as used when people say a "Fresnel effect") mis-pronounced. I was surprised no one had asked about it.

But I could have misread the whole thread, as you said.

dempolys

TrevorJ wrote: »

really? cause i was pretty sure people were asking about words they weren't sure how to pronounce that are common in computer graphics. I just often hear Fresnel(as used when people say a "Fresnel effect") mis-pronounced. I was surprised no one had asked about it.

But I could have misread the whole thread, as you said.

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1489361&postcount=20

Mithdia

Oh how I love finnish and it's phonetic pronounciation no need to bother with questions like this.

So for me Wacom is Wa (a as in the word Car) com (as in .com).
Skype -> Sky-p [Skai-p]
Biped -> Bi-ped [Bai-ped]
Anti-Aliasing -> Anti-Alias-ing [

cptSwing

people i know insist on pronouncing pivot as "piv-oh", all french-like. i disagree though - am i right?

EarthQuake

cptSwing wrote: »

people i know insist on pronouncing pivot as "piv-oh", all french-like. i disagree though - am i right?

You are correct, anyone who thinks the word "pivot" has a silent T is an "idi-oh"

Rick_D

the most redundant thread in the world. teaching people to pronounce words using a medium of words that they might be pronouncing wrong because they cannot hear them.

"yo dawg.."

EarthQuake

Rick_D wrote: »

the most redundant thread in the world. teaching people to pronounce words using a medium of words that they might be pronouncing wrong because they cannot hear them.

"yo dawg.."

And another useless post from the most useless poster on polycount, thank you for your enlightening insight.

Andreas

cptSwing wrote: »

people i know insist on pronouncing pivot as "piv-oh", all french-like. i disagree though - am i right?

Smack them. Hard.

r_fletch_r

Andreas wrote: »

I say gooey.

A spanish guy I know pronounces it as Gee. (which for you non irish folks is a local slang for vagina )

Did anyone mention Euler, thats another real common one.
its pronounced 'Oiler'

Tom Pritchard

I'd pronounce Euler, 'You-luh'. Is it a location thing, or is 'Oiler' standard everywhere?

I feel as though I'm learning a lot in this thread

Andreas

r_fletch_r wrote: »

A spanish guy I know pronounces it as Gee. (which for you non irish folks is a local slang for vagina )

Did anyone mention Euler, thats another real common one.
its pronounced 'Oiler'

Yes I've come across 'Gee' before ;P

Ah yes, Euler. I would pronounce it Oiler.

Problem I'm seeing here is, too many frenchies and people with weird surnames are developing new tech/shaders. If you have a hard to pronounce surname, top working in CG, its confusing the rest of us. :poly142:

shotgun

some earth shattering revelations here
here's a few moar:

deus-ex ?? (i say: deh-oz-ex)
gibs?? (some1 insisted it was 'jibs')
meme? (i say: meh-meh)

bugo

Shouldn't "Wacom" be like:

Wacom - Wa (Way) com (.com)

Oniram

shotgun wrote: »

some earth shattering revelations here
here's a few moar:

deus-ex ?? (i say: deh-oz-ex)
meme? (i say: meh-meh)

i usually say deus ex as "day-us-ex"
i have a friend who will yell at anyone who pronounces meme as "meh-meh". he insists its "meem" (which i agree with) lol.

bugo wrote: »

Shouldn't "Wacom" be like:

Wacom - Wa (Way) com (.com)

of course it should. but i guess the creators of the company wanted it to be "wack-om"

a friend of mine was at GDC a few years back and ran into someone who worked there. they were chatting and my friend said "i really love all the wacom (way-com) products"

and the person from the company just looked at them with a serious face and said "its pronounced "wack-om"

R3D

vreza wrote: »

I'm always not sure if i pronounce these terms right.

1. Bezier
2. Biped
3. Anti-aliasing
4. Mitchell-Netravali
5. Adobe
6. Skype

Beh-zee-a (a pronounced like the letter)
Bye-ped
An-tea-Alias-ing (an-tie is also correct for anti, like Day-Ta or Dah-Ta for data)
dunno
A-doe-bee
Sky-p (p pronounced like how it sounds, not pee)

deus-ex ?? (i say: deh-oz-ex)
gibs?? (some1 insisted it was 'jibs')
meme? (i say: meh-meh)

Day-us-ecks (or days-of-sex, both are correct)
gibs with a G, like game (atleast that's how i've always done it)
meem

I used to read it "mimi" until I was enlightened.

System

Also;

1 Vertex = VERTEX

More than 1 Vertex = VERTICES...

I can't even count the number of times I've heard;

'Select the corner vertice'

'Select a group of vertexes'

R3D

TeeJay wrote: »

Also;

1 Vertex = VERTEX

More than 1 Vertex = VERTICES...

I can't even count the number of times I've heard;

'Select the corner vertice'

'Select a group of vertexes'

Also
1 radius
2 Radii (ray-dee-eye)

CheeseOnToast

gibs?? (some1 insisted it was 'jibs')

It is pronounced "jibs", as in giblets. It's a soft "g". I have a selection of different weights and gauges of plastic spoons to throw at anyone who says it otherwise in the studio. That punishment also applies to anyone who whistles the Kill Bill theme song.

Andreas

Yes, the pronounciation of gibs is up in the air I'm afraid... I personally use it with a G rather than a J. Actually, I should say I rarely if ever have occasion to use the word. More QIII Arena might be needed.

shotgun

i see. well, 12 years of quake have made their mark on me. Gibs (with a hard, nasty 'g') it is.

U may dispense of ur spoons at will.

Andreas

CheeseOnToast wrote: »

That punishment also applies to anyone who whistles the Kill Bill theme song.

Justified.