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Tirea Aean

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Quote from: `Eylan Ayfalulukanä on June 27, 2011, 02:45:53 PM
Quote from: Syulang on June 26, 2011, 09:28:13 PM
Irayo ma oeya tsmukan si tsmuke, for all the help  :) i think i heard cameron say 'oel' as 'weyl' at some award speech. now i can go off and greet people properly  ;D

Paul Frommer's pronunciations are canon. Note that the 'well' form of oel is only used if oel is not at the end of the sentence. There, you enunciate the word more formally, like 'ooel'.

The other common oe word with a run-together prononciation is oeru. This can be pronounced 'weru' when not at the end of a sentence. Then it is 'ooeru'.

As far as i understand, use of the run-together pronunciations is optional, but encouraged.

lol i just quoted the canon and posted an mp3 of paul saying it.

also....'ooel'?? 'ooeru'?? 0.o

i would imagine oh-EL and oh-EH-ru

when i hear him say

nga yawne lu oer

he certainly seems to say

ngah YAW-neh lu wer

and not ngah YAW-neh lu oh-ER

Kamean

Tse'a ngal ke'ut a krr fra'uti kame.


'Oma Tirea

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Tirea Aean

I take it "TEMO" is your short for "Tì'efumì oeyä"

'Oma Tirea

Sran and I've got several other acronyms lying around the forum:

T.S.
N.K.

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Tirea Aean

Quote from: 'Oma Tirea on June 27, 2011, 11:32:45 PM
Sran and I've got several other acronyms lying around the forum:

T.S.
N.K.



I picked up on those instantly, but I'm not sure if others who are not so keen on their Na'vi catch those. ;)

`Eylan Ayfalulukanä

Quote from: Tirea Aean on June 27, 2011, 03:39:29 PM

lol i just quoted the canon and posted an mp3 of paul saying it.

also....'ooel'?? 'ooeru'?? 0.o

i would imagine oh-EL and oh-EH-ru

when i hear him say

nga yawne lu oer

he certainly seems to say

ngah YAW-neh lu wer

and not ngah YAW-neh lu oh-ER

Now that you mention this, I have heard K. Pawl use the 'wer' ending. I think some research will now be needed to determine where this ending information came from. I seem to think I saw it in Wm. Annis's reference grammar.

We are both pretty much the same on the phonetics, I think. It is just we express them differently. This is part of the reason that 1.) It is hard to accurately represent animal sounds phonetically, and 2.) Why any two people speaking Na`vi to each other have trouble understanding each other. (I think Paul even said this when we met back in March.)

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