Kharaa pronounciation

Troy_RageTroy_Rage Join Date: 2002-10-18 Member: 1530Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">I think i spelt that right  ;)</div>ok, i just whanna make sure i pronounced this right

Car-ah
thats how u pronounce it right?
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  • Mr_Radical_EdMr_Radical_Ed Join Date: 2002-09-05 Member: 1285Members
    btw that was very clever for the name of the species. When I first read it I was like, "WTF?", but I read on and I was smiling content on how the name came about.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Jeff pronounces it:

    'kaah-RAAH'
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  • chubbystevechubbysteve Join Date: 2002-10-14 Member: 1496Members, Constellation
    Thats also how I would expect it pronounced troy.

    When it comes to pronounciation there are two other things I suspect I may have got wrong.  Given they are both map names, I suspect only the mapper knows himself, and any playtester that might have caught it.

    ns_bast: bast like paste or bast like past (possibly the worst examples of similar sounding words <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->)
    ns_hera: Now I know you are going to rat on about greek godesses (or so my friend said) but I was just wondering if I was saying this correctly by saying 'hair-eh'.
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  • GobyWanGobyWan Join Date: 2002-02-22 Member: 234Members
    Bast is like cast or past. Baste is something you do to a turkey. Hera is "Hair-uh".

    So kharaa is accented on the second syllable, eh? khaa-RAAH? Sounds cooler that way methinks.
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  • Troy_RageTroy_Rage Join Date: 2002-10-18 Member: 1530Members
    ok but in the manule it says karaa is mongolian for watch out... i think if the karaa actuly got on the ship er they' be getting slaughterd from the karaa they'ed be saying... OH GOD! HOLLY ####! er something... watch out? why would they keep sayin that? unless mongolian doesnt have words like behind you and Over there! or they could of calleed the alians, TURKY BASTERS... well meybie if they were screwin around
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    well bast (egyptian cat goddess)

    is baa - st (past)

    and hera (again greek goddess)

    well, yah that looks about right lol it all comes down to accent any way ;D)

    actualy sorta more like hair ah (like what the Dr has you say) (not eh,like canadian eh)
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  • DunsbyDunsby Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1042Awaiting Authorization
    Instead of rawr it should be RAAH! Like Monse says how the seccond syllable of the word sounds like.
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  • TzarconTzarcon Join Date: 2002-02-28 Member: 259Members
    Woah, they're called the Kharaa now?
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  • Sgt_VejitaSgt_Vejita Join Date: 2002-08-04 Member: 1069Members
    humm....*starts to think about religeon and such*

    then the next 3 lvl's will be called:

    Thor (as in the God of Thunder)
    Odin (uhm...King of Gods)
    Loki (Odins Brother..i think..., also a betrayer)
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  • ICha0sIICha0sI Join Date: 2002-06-13 Member: 763Members
    <b><span style='color:lightblue'>*nuked*</span></b>

    No l33t.



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  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    kaah-RAAH!!! For teh mind!
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  • Troy_RageTroy_Rage Join Date: 2002-10-18 Member: 1530Members
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    betcha cant leet just one post?



    <!--EDIT|Moleculor|Oct. 29 2002,19:02-->
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  • chubbystevechubbysteve Join Date: 2002-10-14 Member: 1496Members, Constellation
    So thats bast like past and hera like hair-uh.. uh.. hair-ah.

    Well it doesn't matter too much, I only know one person in real life who actually knows about NS...
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  • ShadoweShadowe Join Date: 2002-10-30 Member: 1732Members
    heh, maybe the kharaa and nehahra are related.
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