Can anyone read that shit that's over say, 10? They seem to be teaching kids in school phonetics from the very start these days, but that just looks like a different language to me...
same thing with the font "Trebuchet". i met people who pronounce it french-like.
The word, or is there a font called Trebuchet, that should be pronounced different to how to medieval weapon should be. Cause that should be pronounced all French like.
I say meem, as does everyone else I've ever heard say it out loud, but now that you mention it, "meh-meh" or maybe "mem" is probably more correct given that it's short for "memetic".
If you're going to pronounce French words the proper way you should pronounce Z-brush as "zee brush" because it's a US product :P
Meme was coined by Richard Dawkins, it's supposed to rhyme with gene.
Gib is pronounced "jib"
"Gib is short for giblet. Giblets are guts of a chicken. I first heard a friend of mine use the term. Once I started working at id, I would call the guts I drew gibs." - Adrian Carmack
the GIF file format is pronounced jif, so say it's creator:
"Bob Berry, one of creators of the GIF format, has said, "GIF has always been pronounced "jif", since it was first released in 1987." "
Euler is like Oiler.. its not exact because its not English so us yanks lack the proper intonation in our character set. So named for Leonhard Euler. Swiss Mathematician
Fresnel is like Fray-nel, again the name of the mathematician who came up with the equations describing said phenomena: Augustin-Jean Fresnel. French Physicist.
Boolean = bool - ian.. So named for George Boole's (British Mathematician) logical constructs for working on sets. We just use them in a spacial context of sets of points and volumes.
Meme rhymes with Gene, because a meme is the mental version of a gene. Origin of the idea is credited to Richard Dawkins. (and Justin answered this too..)
Skype = "One of the initial names for the project was "Sky peer-to-peer", which was then abbreviated to "Skyper". However, some of the domain names associated with "Skyper" were already taken. Dropping the final "r" left the current title "Skype", for which domain names were available"
Right, so now that we know the correct pronunciations, are you actually going use them?
I've always said bee-zeer or freznel, for instance, because I know people will understand what I mean, because no one else I know says it differently. Should we champion correctness at the cost of being misunderstood? I am sure with half of these no one would know what you are talking about if said correctly.
For a while I called Zbrush Zedbrush somewhat intentionally, back to Zbrush now though. It might have been because other people were using "Zedbrush" at the time.
I don't think I could live in a world where "jif" was the most widely used pronunciation.
What about obj? oh-bee-jay or awbj as in object. I say the former but often think the latter.
Also, is there anyone who doesn't think wip is whip?
As in "the skill one is most adept in"? Well now, this is quite the educational thread. Turns out I've been mispronouncing "anisotropic" all this time too.
With regards to ZBrush, I say Zi, 'coz the way the D and the B bang up against each other in Zedbrush is unpleasant to enunciate.
>:P I'm too used to pronouncing Z as zed ...with regards to the OP I pronounce anti phonetically as an'tee as most from the UK will. But anything that is a brand name I will pronounce the way the official brand/company do so Adobe is Adob'ee or Porche is Por'sheh ^_^
Right, so now that we know the correct pronunciations, are you actually going use them?
I've always said bee-zeer or freznel, for instance, because I know people will understand what I mean, because no one else I know says it differently. Should we champion correctness at the cost of being misunderstood? I am sure with half of these no one would know what you are talking about if said correctly.
Well.. we are members of a technical profession building and abstracting the work of some of the standout members of the mathematical and scientific communities for the purposes of entertainment.
We seem to lament fairly often how "less seriously" the games industry is taken compared to other equally technically challenging industries.
Maybe if we speak about what we do with knowledge and command it might go a little way toward that respect.
I mean, its like the president of the US talking about Nuk-you-lar probliteration, and ay-rabian eye-mams being a threat to 'merkan nashal sekurtah.
There's a degree of professionalism to be had in understanding your craft.
We don't call the phong reflectance model a puh-hong do we?
Right, so now that we know the correct pronunciations, are you actually going use them?
of course we are. That's the whole point in asking these questions. We want to be correctly saying these things.. Being arrogant enough to know you're wrong but do it anyway is kinda douchey
of course we are. That's the whole point in asking these questions. We want to be correctly saying these things.. Being arrogant enough to know you're wrong but do it anyway is kinda douchey
Right, but on the flip side of that, if you're the only guy at your studio to say these words correctly with sometimes foreign pronunciations, you'll also come off as douchey and pretentious. Especially if you take it upon yourself to correct everyone else.
There's also the chance that the uninformed think you are the one who is pronouncing it incorrectly and think you are dumb. Such as with the majority of people who think it's "Way-com".
I always try to use correct pronunciations, I was just curious to get other people's thoughts.
Forte is pronounced 'fort' unless you're speaking about the musical term.
this is so widely mispronounced that most places have just said 'fuck it'. but you want to be correct, right?
I counter this with
a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in: I don't know what her forte is, but it's not music. Synonyms: talent, skill, excellence, strength, strong point, specialty, proficiency; knack, bent.
Via dictionary.com
it can be pronouced For-tey like the french intended or fort it seems, nowhere does it mention anything about music.
it can be pronouced For-tey like the french intended or fort it seems, nowhere does it mention anything about music.
lol, keep reading. literally right after what you quoted from dictionary.com:
Origin:
164050; earlier fort < Middle French ( see fort); disyllabic pronunciation by association with forte 2
Can be confused: fort, forte (see pronunciation note at the current entry ).
Pronunciation note
In the sense of a person's strong suit ( He draws well, but sculpture is his real forte ), the older and historical pronunciation of forte is the one-syllable [fawrt] or [fohrt], pronounced as the English word fort. The word is derived from the French word fort, meaning strong.
A two-syllable pronunciation [fawr-tey] is increasingly heard, especially from younger educated speakers, perhaps owing to confusion with the musical term forte, pronounced in English as [fawr-tey] and in Italian as [fawr-te].
Both the one- and two-syllable pronunciations of forte are now considered standard.
for·te
[fawr-tey; It. fawr-te]
adjective
1. (a direction in a musical score or part) loud; with force ( opposed to piano).
adverb
2. (a direction in a musical score or part) loudly.
noun
3. a passage that is loud and played with force or is marked to be so. Abbr.: f
Right, but on the flip side of that, if you're the only guy at your studio to say these words correctly with sometimes foreign pronunciations, you'll also come off as douchey and pretentious. Especially if you take it upon yourself to correct everyone else.
If I'm the only one doing it right, then I'm not going to do it wrong just to fit in. If that makes me douchey, then so be it.
Right, so now that we know the correct pronunciations, are you actually going use them?
Mostly, yes, unless the correct pronunciation sounds so awful to me that I simply can't, for example:
Wacom will always be Way-com, and gif is NOT "JIFF" xD
But yeah, I'm glad I finally know how Freznel is supposed to be pronounced, and anisotropic. I used to say "an-iss-tropp-ick" xD xD Talk about totally off hahaha
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anti could either be ant-eye or ant-ee. po-ta-toe po-tat-o. to each their own
Can anyone read that shit that's over say, 10? They seem to be teaching kids in school phonetics from the very start these days, but that just looks like a different language to me...
same thing with the font "Trebuchet". i met people who pronounce it french-like.
The word, or is there a font called Trebuchet, that should be pronounced different to how to medieval weapon should be. Cause that should be pronounced all French like.
Soft Imaa-aj
EDIT: You should change this thread's title to CG Vocabulary and pronunciation .
Is that a font? Cause its definitely not how the weapon is pronounced.
Yeah, Softimage's pronounciation drives me crazy so I just call it XSI :poly142:
done. but it doesnt change in the thread list.
I say meem, as does everyone else I've ever heard say it out loud, but now that you mention it, "meh-meh" or maybe "mem" is probably more correct given that it's short for "memetic".
Okay, another one: Boolean.
I've heard "Boo-leen" and "Boo-lee-en"
i say it like the second one.
This. Also, second one for Booleans.
Meme was coined by Richard Dawkins, it's supposed to rhyme with gene.
Gib is pronounced "jib"
"Gib is short for giblet. Giblets are guts of a chicken. I first heard a friend of mine use the term. Once I started working at id, I would call the guts I drew gibs." - Adrian Carmack
the GIF file format is pronounced jif, so say it's creator:
"Bob Berry, one of creators of the GIF format, has said, "GIF has always been pronounced "jif", since it was first released in 1987." "
That has always bugged me so I decided to look it up this time xD
Euler is like Oiler.. its not exact because its not English so us yanks lack the proper intonation in our character set. So named for Leonhard Euler. Swiss Mathematician
Fresnel is like Fray-nel, again the name of the mathematician who came up with the equations describing said phenomena: Augustin-Jean Fresnel. French Physicist.
Boolean = bool - ian.. So named for George Boole's (British Mathematician) logical constructs for working on sets. We just use them in a spacial context of sets of points and volumes.
Meme rhymes with Gene, because a meme is the mental version of a gene. Origin of the idea is credited to Richard Dawkins. (and Justin answered this too..)
Skype = "One of the initial names for the project was "Sky peer-to-peer", which was then abbreviated to "Skyper". However, some of the domain names associated with "Skyper" were already taken. Dropping the final "r" left the current title "Skype", for which domain names were available"
this seems ever more relevant now
anyone posting in this thread is required to wear this expression
thank u
Or "supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus"?
It is Jibs, its a shortening of giblet (jib lut)
"Anisotropy"
An eye so tropey
I've always said bee-zeer or freznel, for instance, because I know people will understand what I mean, because no one else I know says it differently. Should we champion correctness at the cost of being misunderstood? I am sure with half of these no one would know what you are talking about if said correctly.
For a while I called Zbrush Zedbrush somewhat intentionally, back to Zbrush now though. It might have been because other people were using "Zedbrush" at the time.
I don't think I could live in a world where "jif" was the most widely used pronunciation.
What about obj? oh-bee-jay or awbj as in object. I say the former but often think the latter.
Also, is there anyone who doesn't think wip is whip?
Duke3d even went further and referred to it exclusively as "JIBS" in the cons.
Coming back to this post than:
Its pronounced: Su-duo Su-duo Hyp-o Pe-ra thy-roi-dism
pseudo pseudo hypo para thyroidism.
its not pronounced "FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU" I even googled it, there is no such word.
Forte is pronounced 'fort' unless you're speaking about the musical term.
this is so widely mispronounced that most places have just said 'fuck it'. but you want to be correct, right?
With regards to ZBrush, I say Zi, 'coz the way the D and the B bang up against each other in Zedbrush is unpleasant to enunciate.
Well.. we are members of a technical profession building and abstracting the work of some of the standout members of the mathematical and scientific communities for the purposes of entertainment.
We seem to lament fairly often how "less seriously" the games industry is taken compared to other equally technically challenging industries.
Maybe if we speak about what we do with knowledge and command it might go a little way toward that respect.
I mean, its like the president of the US talking about Nuk-you-lar probliteration, and ay-rabian eye-mams being a threat to 'merkan nashal sekurtah.
There's a degree of professionalism to be had in understanding your craft.
We don't call the phong reflectance model a puh-hong do we?
Zed is how 'Z' is pronounced in British/European English, Zee is an Americanism. You're not likely to hear it said that way outside Europe
of course we are. That's the whole point in asking these questions. We want to be correctly saying these things.. Being arrogant enough to know you're wrong but do it anyway is kinda douchey
Also, is Maya "May-ah" or "M-eye-ah"?
Right, but on the flip side of that, if you're the only guy at your studio to say these words correctly with sometimes foreign pronunciations, you'll also come off as douchey and pretentious. Especially if you take it upon yourself to correct everyone else.
There's also the chance that the uninformed think you are the one who is pronouncing it incorrectly and think you are dumb. Such as with the majority of people who think it's "Way-com".
I always try to use correct pronunciations, I was just curious to get other people's thoughts.
@glynnsmith I've always heard it said as "my-yuh" which is confirmed by some quick googling. [ame="
I counter this with
Via dictionary.com
it can be pronouced For-tey like the french intended or fort it seems, nowhere does it mention anything about music.
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Haha as a fellow Greek I feel his pain.
lol, keep reading. literally right after what you quoted from dictionary.com:
Origin:
164050; earlier fort < Middle French ( see fort); disyllabic pronunciation by association with forte 2
Can be confused: fort, forte (see pronunciation note at the current entry ).
Pronunciation note
In the sense of a person's strong suit ( He draws well, but sculpture is his real forte ), the older and historical pronunciation of forte is the one-syllable [fawrt] or [fohrt], pronounced as the English word fort. The word is derived from the French word fort, meaning strong.
A two-syllable pronunciation [fawr-tey] is increasingly heard, especially from younger educated speakers, perhaps owing to confusion with the musical term forte, pronounced in English as [fawr-tey] and in Italian as [fawr-te].
Both the one- and two-syllable pronunciations of forte are now considered standard.
for·te
[fawr-tey; It. fawr-te]
adjective
1. (a direction in a musical score or part) loud; with force ( opposed to piano).
adverb
2. (a direction in a musical score or part) loudly.
noun
3. a passage that is loud and played with force or is marked to be so. Abbr.: f
Origin:
171525; < Italian < Latin fortis strong
which pretty much matches exactly what i said
i found this: /
xoliul - (zoh-lee-yool)
before just taking the time to pronounce it id always just lead off with a "zoh" sound and mumble for 3-5 seconds.
If I'm the only one doing it right, then I'm not going to do it wrong just to fit in. If that makes me douchey, then so be it.
Um. No.
It's not anise otropy, like the spice. It's an istropy, as in "not the same everywhere". anisos tropikos. All greek origins.
Mostly, yes, unless the correct pronunciation sounds so awful to me that I simply can't, for example:
Wacom will always be Way-com, and gif is NOT "JIFF" xD
But yeah, I'm glad I finally know how Freznel is supposed to be pronounced, and anisotropic. I used to say "an-iss-tropp-ick" xD xD Talk about totally off hahaha
Really? crap i've been saying it wrong... i mean wrong.\
congrats, now you don't discriminate against that O.
over here, we've resigned ourselves to Xo-Li-Lo-Lo-Lo ...it's just so damn complicated ;-)
i wonder though if the any/an-eye part is like ant-ee/ant-eye for UK/US people.