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Boat name.
Branden Linton
Posts: 391
1/13/2012
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I want to name my Swift Zee-Clipper any suggestions?
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Patrick Reding
Posts: 440
1/15/2012
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Branden Linton wrote:
No suggestions from the fail better staff?
The beauty of this game is that it acts as a framework to let you tell your own stories, rather than simply dictating a story to you. An official response would take some of the fun out of the process, wouldn't it.
Also, I'm reasonably certain they can't be arsed.
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Chris Gardiner
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Posts: 539
1/16/2012
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Wieland Burandt wrote:
Urthdigger wrote:
I may be wrong, I don't have much experience with welsh words, but is it pronounced Lam-heen e der?
Ll = kh/ch (like in Scottish "loch" or German "Achtung")
W = oo (like in "doom", not like in "door")
Y = like the second a in "catacomb" (meaning it's almost not there)
So, "Llamhigyn Y Dwr" should be something like "Kha-miggan-a-Door"
edited by Wieland Burandt on 1/15/2012
One of the Failbetter team is Welsh, and a couple of the rest of us lived in Wales for a number of years, so I can't resist sticking my oar in.
The welsh 'w' vowel is usually pronouced like the short 'oo' in 'book', rather than the long 'oo' in 'doom'.
'Ll' isn't pronounced like the Scottish 'ch'. I'm not aware of any equivalent, or any easy way to render it in text. But you make the sound be putting the front part of the top of your tongue against the roof of your mouth and blowing air either side of it. Have a bucket ready. And face away from people.
Certain Welsh consonants should only be attempted by trained experts.
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