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>tfw I thought Ulysses was pronounced "you-lie-ses" and thought it sounded cool and imposing, but saw a lecture on YT about it after reading it and it's actually pronounced "you-lee-sees"
wtf Anglos? why do you ruin everything? what a patheic soi name lmao

>> No.13311353

its ok anon not everyone can be smart enough to know how words are pronounced you don't have to get upset and lash out

>> No.13311358

>>13311351
Its more like Yoo-leh-sees though

>> No.13311362

>>13311353
English has literally no pronounciation consistency. You can't look at a word and know with absolute certainty how it's pronounced unless you've been living with English all your life so you're accostumed to the mistakes.

>> No.13311365

>>13311358

Americans say it like yoo-LI-sees but the Irish say it like YOO-li-sees

>> No.13311374

>>13311351
Ulises

>> No.13311379

I’ve always said you-liss-see-us but I don’t know what an Irish pronounciation would be

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>Tyrion = tee-rion
>Tywin = tie-win
Why's English so fucking autistic?

>> No.13311388

>>13311351
It's pronounced Jua-le-says here in California.

>> No.13311401

>>13311379
Its a Latin word so it doesn't matter

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>blaming Anglos for pronouncing Latin words correctly
>thinking that /julajsez/, the most faggoty mispronunciation I've ever seen, sounds cool and imposing

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>>13311460
>The Latin U sounds like "you"
>correctly
delusional anglofags lmao

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>>13311351
Bro, it's English, pronounce however you want. That's part of the fun.

>> No.13313450

>>13311351
it's actually you-lie-ess-ess

>> No.13313831

>>13311351
I can't tell you which is closer to the original word etc. What I can tell you, is that you-lie-sees sounds fucking gay.

>> No.13313869

how is 2666 pronounced?

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>> No.13313876

>>13311501
We aren't speaking Latin though. Are you one of those autists that puts on a fake accent when pronouncing foreign words?

>> No.13313883

Ooh-lee-seh

>> No.13313894

Poo-pee-pees

>> No.13314042

its ul-li-seez

>> No.13314117

>>13311351
>tfw not Odysseus

>> No.13314191

>>13313876
>We aren't speaking Latin though.
You said you pronounced Latin words correctly.
> Are you one of those autists that puts on a fake accent when pronouncing foreign words?
Not really.

>> No.13314226

>>13311351
you-lee-sees is the objectively superior pronunciation.

>>13311362
this guy is right

>>13311353
Mispronouncing words is actually super lit, because it means your vocabulary comes heavily from reading- which means that unless you hear it spoken out loud, there's no way to know if you're saying it right.

>> No.13314229

>>13314226
Sorry, Oo-lee-sees.

>> No.13314235

>>13314229
Oo-lis-ees

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>>13314235

>> No.13314323

>>13313869

Two-hundred-sixty-six six obviously

>> No.13314335

>>13313869
dos mil seiscientos sesenta y seis

>> No.13314340

>>13314226
>Mispronouncing words is actually super lit, because it means your vocabulary comes heavily from reading- which means that unless you hear it spoken out loud, there's no way to know if you're saying it right.
this

>> No.13314347

>>13311365
the second one is the correct pronounciation as far as im concerned. it also sounds based. but id write it as you-lih-sees for maximum clarity

>> No.13314463

>>13311351
What about Alcibiades? Mary Renault uses the "k" spelling, so I pronounce it like that, then cringed when later hearing George C. Scott use the soft "c" pronunciation in Patton.