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  • RedFrank24@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    You don’t want to hear me read aloud, I deliberately add malapropisms because I find them funny, especially when I have to read the names of fantasy characters and places. I am not going to read your pronunciation guide in your half baked fantasy language! You’re not Tolkien! If it reads like Chicken, I’m saying Chicken.

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      10 days ago

      Malapropisms - learned a new word today and it’s a fun one. I do the same thing in my head when I read, any name I don’t know how to pronounce becomes something I do know how to pronounce and stays that way for the rest of the story.

    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it
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      That’s the reason why i use latin as base when i name things in fantasy, it both sound good and can’t be misspelled