bobjohnny Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 and GATO is pronounced like NATO and not like the spanish word for cat. Actually, thats exactly how i pronounce it.... the spanish word for cat. Could be worse, I could call them Perro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uralica Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 I usually pronouce it Neh-Meh-Sis.I'm more interested in Zenith, do people say Zee-Nith or Zeh-nith? My usual pronunciation is highlighted. In IPA it would be /zɛnɪθ/ (as opposed to /zinɪθ/) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Flinders Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Damn the internet and it not transferring sarcasm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savethecheerleader Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Damn the internet and it not transferring sarcasm. /me facepalms I thought that might be the case, but so many people seem not understand this... Well, I feel silly now :lol: Also, I've always pronouced GATO like NATO. Any other non-Spaniards out there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Flinders Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 /me facepalmsI thought that might be the case, but so many people seem not understand this... Well, I feel silly now :lol: Also, I've always pronouced GATO like NATO. Any other non-Spaniards out there? In all fairness, the protip bit may have overloaded the sarcasm indicator. Now let's all get back to sounding out words like we're in grade one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Hoo III Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 NemesisYou'd have to be an idiot to not know how to pronounce it. HINT: NEE - MEE - SEES Neh-muh-sis for me. I heard Deta call RIA "REE-UH", which to me is just wrong. GATO is GAY-TOE STA is ES-TEE-AYE NAAC is KNACK ... or KNAAAAAACK ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BamaBuc Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Tee oh oh ell. Nah, I just say "TOOL" I say VE as vee ee, RIA as reeya, STA as ess tee ay, and GATO as gey toe. So I really don't have a method to it, I just pronounce them in my head as I see them. I still say EKelon instead of ECHelon, because I first thought of it in my head as having a hard CH, even though I now know that's wrong. -Bama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaaku Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 neh-meh-sis Get it right Hoo! for LOSS..uummm....of f*** it, if you can't pronounce the word, you're too stupid to read the pronounciations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobjohnny Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 NAAC is KNACK ... or KNAAAAAACK ... It was always N-double A- C for me...kinda like NAACP.... Not Hispanic. That just how I've always pronounced GATO. It's spelled the same, so why not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neoche666 Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 well i am in valhalla and we tend to pronounce our name HY-PPEES YN PEES-MOAD- R-OOL with a silent halla at the end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uralica Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 For me, Echelon is /ɛʃǝlɑn/ (EH-shuh-lon). Also: /me headdesks at taking Flinders literally. ASPIE MOMENT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innerspeaker Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 I've always said en pee oh for NPO, pole air iss for NpO, en vee for nueva vida, the Spanish word for cat when pronouncing GATO, reeya for RIA, and vee ee for VE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shodemofi-NPO Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 (edited) Gey-Toe Ess-Tee-Ay En-ay-ay-see Zee-nith Ar-eye-ay Esh-i-lon En-Pee-Oh En-Little pee-Oh Gram-lins Edited April 20, 2009 by Shodemofi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drostan Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 SPPPPPAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Orpheus Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 I say Pole-ahr-is for NpO N-A-A-C would be how I would say NAAC. Also, Zenith for me is Zeh-nith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asriel Belacqua Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 NAAC, either EN, Double A, See, or NAAC as in I have a "Knack" for something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moridin Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 I rarely sound out acronyms phonetically. As a general rule I just read off the letters even when it probably makes more sense not to - I call TOP "Tee Oh Pee" rather than "top", NAAC as "En Ay Ay See" rather than "Nak", GATO as "Gee Ay Tee Oh" rather than "Gahto or Gayto" (no offense intended on the last one). The only exception that comes to mind is IRON. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Ubet Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 RoK=Rock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uralica Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Everyone does things differently. I pronounce anything that could be pronounced as an acronym, as an acronym. To avoid confusing Ragnarok and R.O.C.K. in speech, I don't use the Ragnarok abbreviation RoK. (I do in text because they are distinguishable.) I even go so far as to pronounce GOP as "gawp." WAPA I rhyme with Nappa (see Dragon Ball Z ). Yes, weird Jarkko is weird, blah blah blah yackity schmackity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Frontier Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Es Tee Ay. Really? I've always pronounced it "Stah". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpoiL Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 (edited) Es Tee Ay. Interesting. I always call it Stah for STA. Dunno why Edit: And apparently so does the guy above me Edited April 20, 2009 by SpoiL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guffey Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 NPO- pacific-ahh NpO- polar-iss NAAC- en- double A - see RIA- are-eye-ay Gramlins- Gram-lins STA- ess-tee-ay RoK- rock GATO- Gay-toe NATO- Nay-toe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyria Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 I don't pronounce acronyms for alliances unless its a real word. Like TOOL, TOP, FAN, etc. NATO and GATO are the two exceptions i can think of. and its Ehm Kay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTTezla Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 For me, it's "Gah-toe", like the spanish word for cat. "Gay-toe" makes more sense considering the pronounciation of NATO, but oh well. I also spell out the letters in RIA instead of saying "reeyah". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popsumpot Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 SPPPPPAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA You win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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