How do we pronounce Manticore?

[Scarlet Shocker]

On 2/23/2025 at 1:26 PM, Water said:

 

I've never heard Manticore pronounced as "Sonic the Edgehog."

 

 

You have not heard Mantickory until you have heard it in the original Klingon!

[cranebump]

Perhaps Sinclair’s “edginess” is a blessing. I mean, he could’ve been some sort of frat guy, running around yelling such things as “Manti-SCORE!, bruh!” (offers overly exuberant high five).

[Octogoat]

47 minutes ago, cranebump said:

Perhaps Sinclair’s “edginess” is a blessing. I mean, he could’ve been some sort of frat guy, running around yelling such things as “Manti-SCORE!, bruh!” (offers overly exuberant high five).

Could've been a progressive dj trying to introduce his whacky new music - manticore

[srmalloy]

18 hours ago, BasiliskXVIII said:

Because of this, it should follow English pluralization rules, even when shortened.

'Octopi' would like to object.

[RCU7115]

On 2/22/2025 at 9:11 AM, MoonSheep said:

in the official CoV trailer at 0:45, Synapse says “got you man-tee-core, i’m all over it”

 

 

Who's the guy standing on Manticore's right at 49 seconds I to the video ?

[Octogoat]

11 minutes ago, RCU7115 said:

Who's the guy standing on Manticore's right at 49 seconds I to the video ?

Foreshadow

[BasiliskXVIII]

36 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

'Octopi' would like to object.

 

And well it should, as a Greek word that's pluralised with Latin rules. (Though I will point out that "octopuses" is an entirely valid way of pluralizing "octopus") So, in honour of the octopus, let's take a completely random-ass language, utterly divorced from any context or origin, and pluralize "Kronos" with that, then.

 

I'm suggesting Amharic.

 

Multiple Kronos Titans are now Kronosoch.

[Nerio72]

Gotta roll the Rs when you say it tho 😉

[InvaderStych]

7 hours ago, srmalloy said:

'Octopi' would like to object.

 

6 hours ago, BasiliskXVIII said:

And well it should, as a Greek word that's pluralised with Latin rules.

 

Octopodes have entered the chat.

 

😉

 

[Scarlet Shocker]

17 hours ago, srmalloy said:

'Octopi' would like to object.

 

No such word. The plural of octopus is either octopusses or octopodes

[High_Beam]

This is what always comes to mind when I hear Octopuses mentioned;  Fleet Radiomen.

[Techwright]

Manti, shmanti.   I'm still trying to figure out how to pronounce Arakhn.  I'd like to buy a vowel or two.

 

 

On 2/25/2025 at 12:55 PM, RCU7115 said:

Who's the guy standing on Manticore's right at 49 seconds I to the video ?

 

On 2/25/2025 at 1:06 PM, Octogoat said:

Foreshadow

 

Yep, one of the four members of the South Korean team W.I.S.D.O.M. intended for the original game, but their premier was aborted. He was added later as the trainer in The Hollows next to the Atlas Park gate.  Mirror Spirit, the trainer in Faultline, is the only other member of that team to currently be in the game.

 

[srmalloy]

On 2/25/2025 at 5:41 AM, Octogoat said:

Though it is a fascinating evolution of common trade language.

I remember reading about how English became the de facto language of international aviation after WWII, basically because the American pilots flying cargo into the countries trying to rebuild after the war weren't about to learn some damn ferrin' lingo to talk to air traffic control.

 

There is a joke about it that's been floating around the Net for years: A Pan Am 727 flight, waiting for start clearance in Munich, overheard the following:

Lufthansa: "Boden, wann ist unsere Startfreigabezeit?" (Ground, what is our start clearance time?)
Ground: "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
Lufthansa: "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice from another plane, in a plummy British accent: "Because you lost the bloody war!"