Jᴀᴄᴜʀᴜᴛᴜ - Tʜᴇ Cᴀsᴛ Oᴜᴛ

Okay, I've read it, I know what it means ... but I'm not sure I've ever actually said it out loud:

"deus ex machina"

And now I'm paranoid of getting it wrong. Pardon my Ebonics, but would it be like this phonetically?

DAY-us Ecks MASH-in-uh

(Keeping in mind that I speak American English, of course ...)

Yeah, I try to avoid saying it out loud around people myself...

Did you look here http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ ... %20machina? there's a clumsy pronunciation but it's most likely correct.

"deus ex machina"

I think I would pronounce it:

do- ex- MA she na

but that is mainly because the deus reminds me of the french word for two.

It's a hard K sound.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/ ... ex+machina" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Also with Latin there are almost always at least two ways to pronounce something. My Latin teacher said he was teaching us the more German way, and that's what's on this clip. I'm not sure if the more Italian way would say it differently.

Ok, fuck links. The way to pronounce it is DAY-us EX MAH-KIN-AH. My English teacher taught me this in eighth grade.

Sandwurm88 wrote:Ok, fuck links. The way to pronounce it is DAY-us EX MAH-KIN-AH. My English teacher taught me this in eighth grade.

Nice one, Sloey. So you haven't been expelled from school yet?

ZING!

(Poor Sloewurm, he don't get no respect. )

Sorry, I've been asleep! And playing on Twitter.

"DAY-us eks MAH-kee-nuh" is how I say it, FWIW.

(I guess you could get away with a "DEE-us" in the States. But listeners might confuse that with dies "day" (DEE-ess). Dies Irae "Day of Wrath" is another fun one. EE-ray or EAR-eye? )

I say "deuce ecks ma-SHEEN-a". Which is wrong.

HBJ,
happy to help out.

Hunchback Jack wrote:I say "deuce ecks ma-SHEEN-a". Which is wrong.

HBJ,
happy to help out.

Pronunciation pals?

that just sounds dirty ...

SandRider wrote:that just sounds dirty ...

In this thread that's the whole point!

I learnt deus ex machina from The Simpsons actually. In one episode God resets everything by clapping his hands and saying DEUS EX MACHINA!

Anyway another one is non-sequiter (= does not follow; logically that is). How do you pronounce that? Non seh-quit-er or non seh-quite-er?

Well, it always helps to spell it right.

This one's a lot easier: NON SEH-kwi-tuhr. (Like "Say, quitter!" but with the "say" shortened to the beginning of "SEven"?)

SandChigger wrote:Well, it always helps to spell it right.

This one's a lot easier: NON SEH-kwi-tuhr. (Like "Say, quitter!" but with the "say" shortened to the beginning of "SEven"?)

True.

West Texans had fun with furriners tryin' to say Chipotle
til them damn TacoBell commercials came out ....




how bout this one : chimera ....

SandRider wrote:West Texans had fun with furriners tryin' to say Chipotle
til them damn TacoBell commercials came out ....




how bout this one : chimera ....

I always knew how to say "chip-oat-lay". At least... I assume that's how you say it. That's how we do here.

Chimera is "Keye-mare-ah" (eye, and mare like female horse)

Hunchback Jack wrote:I say "deuce ecks ma-SHEEN-a". Which is wrong.

HBJ,
happy to help out.

I use same sounding in my head HBJ, even though I know its wrong, "MAAAK eh Na" always made me think of that macarena song, and would start it playing in my head.

SandRider wrote:West Texans had fun with furriners tryin' to say Chipotle
til them damn TacoBell commercials came out ....




how bout this one : chimera ....

I read it as: C-mare-Rah (yes, I know...I have my own little language that makes no sense.)

Ki mere rah.

Anyone out there who actually says "GEE-tar"?

whut th'fuck you thank ?

Anyone out there who actually says "Gu-i-tar"?

or Gwee-itter ?