Star Trek Pronounciations
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Some of the actors names.
I thought Nana Visitor was Nan-Uh (like the word for grandma) when it's Nah-Nuh... which is hard to write phonetically, lol.
Same with Rene Auberjonis. I thought it was Aw-Ber-Jone-is when it's Aw-Ber-Jean-Wa or some such.
Thought Garrett Wang was wAyng, when it's more like Wong.
Koenig/Keonig, Takei/Takei... lol.
Doo-hen rather than Doo-Han.
Then there's always Wil Wheaton...
http://www.dalealplay.com/informaciondecontenido.php?con=168999
I thought Nana Visitor was Nan-Uh (like the word for grandma) when it's Nah-Nuh... which is hard to write phonetically, lol.
Same with Rene Auberjonis. I thought it was Aw-Ber-Jone-is when it's Aw-Ber-Jean-Wa or some such.
Thought Garrett Wang was wAyng, when it's more like Wong.
Koenig/Keonig, Takei/Takei... lol.
Doo-hen rather than Doo-Han.
Then there's always Wil Wheaton...
http://www.dalealplay.com/informaciondecontenido.php?con=168999
Don't get me started on the way Orion is pronounced in the Animated Series...
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I heard someone at a Con calling her Nay-Nah...
I always pronounced it Nah-Nah.
I can't see that video, is it Stewie calling him Whill Wheaton? Cos that's always hilarious!
What about the other way round? For example, does anyone else struggle with the name Kardashians. That 'h' in there sounds weird! Also, where I'm from in south England, locals pronounce beta 'beeta' and lieutenant 'lefftenent' , they're not exactly words you use when growing up so I only knew the star trek pronunciation - but you know the phrase, everything I learnt I learnt from star trek!
Still not sure how Auberjonois is pronouced.
Somewhat not surprised. It's a french name and a lot of english speaking people have trouble with french names.
This is the way I see it, as a french speaking person:
Oh-bear-Jo-noi
That's the best approximation I can come up with. The s at the end is silent.
I've always found Spock's pronunciations odd at times, though I always took that to mean, at least on a deeper level, that it was because he was alien.
In the early days of Trek TOS, I thought Nimoy was pronounced “nih-MOY,” with the stress on the second syllable. And that George Takei’s last name sounded something like “Tacky.”
BTW, why the fuck are the Kardashians famous?
Spock did definitely mispronounce at least one word — or rather, Leonard Nimoy did. In “Journey to Babel,” he misread “cryogenic” and said something like “cirogenic.”
If it’s a Spanish name (as I presume it is), it’s correctly pronounced “eh-chay-va-RREE-ah,” with a rolled double R. And it’s properly written Echevarría, with an accent.
Shatner’s pronunciation of “sabotage” is well known, but how did he pronounce “electricity”?
I was about to comment on the irony in the spelling of the thread title.Now is this thread about pro-nun-see-ashuns or pro-noun-see-ashuns?
Only a Trek geek would hear the name Kardashian and think of Cardassians!
BTW, why the fuck are the Kardashians famous?
For us anglophones, a phonetic rendition of the name would be more like “Oh-bear-zhun-WAH.”Still not sure how Auberjonois is pronouced.
Somewhat not surprised. It's a french name and a lot of english speaking people have trouble with french names.
This is the way I see it, as a french speaking person:
Oh-bear-Jo-noi
That's the best approximation I can come up with. The s at the end is silent.
Early Spock had a clipped, almost pseudo-British way of speaking (the “shouting Spock”). Later episodes had him speaking in a more natural tone, though with the characteristic Spockian formality and precision.
Spock did definitely mispronounce at least one word — or rather, Leonard Nimoy did. In “Journey to Babel,” he misread “cryogenic” and said something like “cirogenic.”
Reading this I just thought of something. "cyrogenic" is the result of a simple transposition of the "r" and "y" in "cryogenic". Could it have been misspelled in his script? In fact, check this out.
OK, I won't.
But it kinda makes you think that the Enterprise was attacked by a box full of .... Oreos, right?
Thanks, Scotpens. I was never very good at phonetics, but it's exactly what I was trying to have come across, so kudos 
Don't get me started on the way Orion is pronounced in the Animated Series...
that is for sure
With emphasis on the first syllable. L-ectricity.
In Shore Leave, Nimoy mispronounces the word "definitely" and his line comes out as "DefiniteME a MEchanical contrivance" with odd emphasis on the two "me" sounds.
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