Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

On Wednesday, February 25, 2004, at 06:52  AM, Barbara Barrett wrote:
> Barbara Babbles;
> I'm sure I must have been a victim of FLOES many times but for the
> life of
> me can only recall a single example, which was from Frank Herbert's
> "Dune";
> city Arakiss I pronounced as if it was a gaelic place name "ara-kiss" -
> other SF fans were quick to correct me to say "Ay-rak-iss".
>
But "Ay-rak-iss" makes no sense at all!
It's *obviously* ;-), like everything else in _Dune_, supposed to be
Middleeasternesque, so i pronounce it either [@'r\&kIs] (stress on the
|ra| or more pseudo-Arabic style as [ar'ra:kIs].
I can't express how confused I was when students in the class i read
Dune for in college pronounced the character "Chani"'s name as
/'tSejni/.  I mean, who ever heard of a name like that?  Chani is a
perfectly extant real-life name, and it's pronounced /'xani/.

But then again, I'm the guy who pronounces "Numenor" as /num'jEnr=/
even though i know it's horribly incorrect. :-P


-Stephen (Steg)
  "I must not fear.  Fear is the mind-killer.  Fear is the little-death
that brings total obliteration.  I will face my fear.  I will permit it
to pass over me and through me.  And when it has gone past I will turn
the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be
nothing.  Only I will remain."
      ~ the litany against fear, from _dune_

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