Pronunciations :P

[cooliscool]

I've wondered how to pronunce these popular names for a while now..

nVidia (i think n-vidi-a)?
deadalus (dunno :P)
radeon (raid-on, or raid-ee-on)?


any help appreciated :P :happy:

[Eagle]

Well, I had trouble with the characters so I had to do it in paint. I'm not too sure about daedalus myself but I think this is correct.

[sytaylor]

i plump for en-vid-ia (nVidia)
day-dalus (or daydalus?) for daedalus, i think it would just sound like that considering the ae as apposed to where it would be dead-alus
rad-i-on (radeon)

[Malcolm]

ray-de-on (Radeon)
dead-aa-lus (deadalus)
Ne-Vid-e-a (NVidia)

[mann]

shouldnt it be EN-VID-DIA

[DuDe]

It`s Daedalus, not Deadalus. And I think that it`s pronounced dah-dah-lus.

[Lachp30]

In Australia, you have to say it like: Ni-va-daa in a typical aussie accent. :)

[Stezo2k]

Originally posted by DuDe
It`s Daedalus, not Deadalus.

Mabie they was dissin it cuz it hasnt been updated for a while. I duno i havent really used that emu :P

Stez

[sick deal]

I think eagles pronuciations are the most accurate.

[sytaylor]

yeah most people miss the fact its daedalus

[KingTom]

day-duh-luss

[Smiff]

i use the latin pronounciation, die-da-luss

[sytaylor]

i figured it had some history behind it

[DuDe]

I believe it`s either dah-dah-lus, or deh-dah-lus.

[cooliscool]

thanks alot guys, much appreciated. :)

[mann]

completly of topic here my uncle works for EN-VID-DIA

[Eagle]

Originally posted by mann
completly of topic here my uncle works for EN-VID-DIA

He may work for them and they may call themselves that but the rest of the world uses a short i sound.

[Eagle]

Well, I'm not sure what daedalus means but deadalus is a real word that means dazzle or daze

EDIT: or rather is a synonym of

[Smiff]

i dont work for them, but anyone who's been through primary school should know how to pronounce the letter "N" :p

[Eagle]

Well, I did some looking and Datalus is a business informations company, but other than that I havent the slightest clue as to what it means.

http://www.datalus.co.uk/

[2bzy4ne1]

Originally posted by sytaylor
yeah most people miss the fact its daedalusI think that daedalus is the most mispelled emu. :hehe:

[sytaylor]

Originally posted by Eagle


He may work for them and they may call themselves that but the rest of the world uses a short i sound.

i don't.... i use the EN VI DIA, version

[DuDe]

Originally posted by Eagle
Well, I'm not sure what daedalus means
Daedalus is the name of a greek mythlogical character, the father of Icarus.

[KingTom]

dammit you got to it first.
he was the architect of the labyrinth to contain the minotaur, half-man, half-bull sired by the qween of King Minos(what an episode of Jerry Springer that would be) the got exiled to an island in the sea with his son Icarus when his labyrinth didn't work so well(an "improper" suiter for King Minos' daughter[one she actually liked] went in there and killed the Minotaur[instead of getting eaten like the rest of them])
it keeps going but the more important part(at least to me) is:
Daedalus made wax wings fo him and his son Icarus. Icarus was flyin' around too close to the sun, his wings melted, and taught the ground a lesson.(no more Icarus)

[skull1]

shit, just ask strmnrm.

[Stezo2k]

:P

[sytaylor]

that could well be the crappiest vb prog ever

[hotshitu]

In classical Latin "ae" is pronounced like "e" in Engl. "end" cf. Lat. Caesar, Ital. Cesare, Germ. Cäsar, etc. British English proves to be the exception.
And please people, for sound phonetic (ha!) transcriptions use the IPA (http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html ) system instead of proprietary crap a la American Heritage/Merriam-Webster et al.
and for the Greek/Roman mythology impaired: Ovid's Metamorphoses are a good starting point (I'm sure some abridged version can be found on the net :)