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...or should I give up trying to read the D'ni texts

You should give up trying to read the D'ni texts!

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AFAIK... Kemo, the way it's written in English, is pronounced kee-mo. If you wanted a short 'e', you have to write it kemmo.

I don't know how it's written in D'ni, i don't know the language....

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No, you should not give up reading D'ni texts. After all it might come in handy.

TG, you're just lazy...

Kemo. Hmm.. I've been pronouncing it like you would if you read it as a D'ni word, but I'm inclined to think that Yeeshas version is more correct. After all, the English texts are just transliterations.

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Nine-O-Nine wrote:

AFAIK... Kemo, the way it's written in English, is pronounced kee-mo. If you wanted a short 'e', you have to write it kemmo.

I don't know how it's written in D'ni, i don't know the language....

909

Depends, I pronouce it Kehmo like the start of Chemistry. I believe that the e in translations usually refers to an eh sound in the D'ni word, not 100% sure on that though.

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I believe it's Kemo and that it's label Kemo not Keemo: 1. because Keemo looks bad 2. many other areas and ages are pronounced differently than they are spelled or would be spelled in D'ni (Ae'gura, not Ay'goorah, Eder not Ehdur). It's just the way the D'ni was translated so it looked good in the English language.

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Junee wrote:

TG, you're just lazy...

LAZY!

No i'm not!

As for Kemo I always pronounced it Key-mo!

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After all,

Kemo Sabe

is pronouned the same way, ain't it?

Hi-yo Silver, away!

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Ian Atrus wrote:

You know that 'nemo' is latin and is not pronounced nee-mo, right?

I would venture to guess that Reverend Vader did not refer to the Latin word for "nobody", but the character in Pixar's "Finding Nemo".

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Ian Atrus wrote:

Makes it hard to pronounce for non-english people though, as we have to guess whether any name is to be read with d'ni or english rules, or a mix of the two.

It can be hard on english speakers too, since we don't know how heavily the word was anglicized in the romanized spelling. For example, the name of Gehn's father, Aitrus, was not really anglicized at all, but is more of a direct transliteration, while Atrus used an anglo-centric phonetic transliteration of the name. So it can be tough to work backwards to determine the proper D'ni spelling until you've heard the word properly pronounced.

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