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Title: What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
Post by: Goober5000 on September 30, 2002, 02:20:52 pm
In FreeSpace 2, the Meson Bomb is always pronounced "MEE-sahn".  But until I played the main campaign, I had thought it was pronounced "MAY-zahn"; at least, that's what I had always heard, and to me it made sense.  So I looked it up in Webster's, and apparently both pronunciations are valid - although MAY-zahn comes first.  (Curiously, MEH-zahn comes before both of them.)  The specific pronunciation guide goes like this:

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\ 'meh-zahn, 'may-, 'mee-, -sahn \


So how do you like to say it?
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Post by: Solatar on September 30, 2002, 02:32:47 pm
I like to say it like the main campaign said it, for some reason, it sounds better to me. I guess people with different accents, different first languages and such, would pronounce it differently.
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Post by: Carl on September 30, 2002, 04:22:33 pm
it's like data and data.
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Post by: an0n on September 30, 2002, 04:24:13 pm
meh-s'n.
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Post by: BlackDove on September 30, 2002, 04:32:40 pm
Just like they pronounce it in-game...Meson...first option :wtf:
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Post by: Sandwich on September 30, 2002, 05:47:00 pm
Bigg-A** Bomb- oh, wait! That wasn't an option, was it? :doubt:
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Post by: CP5670 on September 30, 2002, 08:04:03 pm
I always learned to say it by the first option.
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Post by: Knight Templar on September 30, 2002, 08:18:19 pm
Meh-Sonn

or

what an0n said
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Post by: vyper on October 01, 2002, 04:17:13 am
mee-sohn!
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Post by: Stunaep on October 01, 2002, 08:25:38 am
the way they say it in the main campaign.

But I'm not english, so what do I know.
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Post by: vyper on October 01, 2002, 08:38:43 am
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Originally posted by Stunaep
the way they say it in the main campaign.

But I'm not english, so what do I know.


:wtf: I'm not English either. But I know the language. There is a difference. :p
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Post by: Goober5000 on October 01, 2002, 09:38:32 am
Bah, I'm outnumbered.  Just wait, I'll make a voice-acted campaign all about meson bombs and force you to listen to it my way... :p
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Post by: mikhael on October 01, 2002, 12:20:22 pm
meh-sohn, the way SHODAN says she is explaining the big hole where one of the meson accellerators used to be.
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Post by: Liberator on October 02, 2002, 11:36:27 am
may-sahn
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Post by: JC Denton on October 02, 2002, 03:10:44 pm
MEE-sahn.  Although I sometimes say it MEY-sahn...
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Post by: Killfrenzy on October 02, 2002, 03:12:19 pm
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Originally posted by mikhael
meh-sohn, the way SHODAN says she is explaining the big hole where one of the meson accellerators used to be.


AAAGH!!!! NOT SHODAN!!! NOOOO!!!!! *Runs screaming*


Anyways:

MEE-sohn
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Post by: Stryke 9 on October 02, 2002, 03:50:10 pm
"Baryon"

Much better word, in my opinion, for essentially the same thing.
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on October 02, 2002, 10:22:29 pm
I voted "other" MAY-SON and for no particular reason i am actually english. :HEADZ:
(this is phonetically correct for my pronounciation)
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Post by: Shrike on October 03, 2002, 03:50:17 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
"Baryon"

Much better word, in my opinion, for essentially the same thing.
quite incorrect.

Mesons and baryons are two main groups of strongly interacting particles. Their internal structure is different (two versus three quarks) and there's other differences.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 04, 2002, 01:18:26 pm
Mee z'n, so there.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on October 04, 2002, 02:22:23 pm
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Originally posted by Shrike
quite incorrect.

Mesons and baryons are two main groups of strongly interacting particles. Their internal structure is different (two versus three quarks) and there's other differences.


Which makes a HUGE difference if you're making up imaginary futuristic superbombs that wouldn't work in the first place.:p
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Post by: Killfrenzy on October 04, 2002, 02:48:19 pm
When it comes to the FS2 weapons, the beams are by far the most realistic. Anyone want to know why?
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Post by: Stryke 9 on October 04, 2002, 02:48:47 pm
Lasers. Already exist, so we know they work, essentially the same thing.

Except a laser would probably more slowly cook an enemy ship, instead of chopping it up.
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Post by: Killfrenzy on October 04, 2002, 02:52:15 pm
Well, maybe if we've got enough power, and focus it enough. Sure, it may not be BFRed size but lasers already cut metal in two, abeit from close range....

I personally believe that once fusion power, along with nanotechnology is harnessed to a sufficient degree, laser weapons will become reality.

BTW - how many people noticed on the FS1 boxart that the Shivan fighters were firing beams?
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Post by: karajorma on October 04, 2002, 03:13:02 pm
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Originally posted by Killfrenzy
BTW - how many people noticed on the FS1 boxart that the Shivan fighters were firing beams?


You talking about the vasudan anubis fighters that are firing beams?
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Post by: Stryke 9 on October 04, 2002, 03:39:25 pm
All I saw was a Typhon.

Anyway, there were beams, after a fashion, in FS1. The Lucy had some primitive beam-thingies- they looked like ****, but they were beam cannons.
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Post by: karajorma on October 04, 2002, 03:50:53 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
All I saw was a Typhon.

Anyway, there were beams, after a fashion, in FS1. The Lucy had some primitive beam-thingies- they looked like ****, but they were beam cannons.


Depends on the cover (http://www.mobygames.com/game/covers/gameId,721/gameCoverId,1331/)
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 04, 2002, 04:07:20 pm
More important is the pronuciation of 'beta'.

I'm english, but thanks to FS I'm forced to hate my friends/co-workers/professors who say 'bee-ta' instead of 'bay-ta'.

Grrr...
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Post by: Stryke 9 on October 04, 2002, 06:18:21 pm
k: Nice. But they look like regular game lasers to me, a bit elongated to look interesting.
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Post by: ZylonBane on November 30, 2002, 07:46:02 pm
I pronounce it MAY-sahn (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?meson001.wav=meson). The MEE-son pronunciation just sounds... illiterate. Like people who pronounce GIF with a hard G, CD-ROM as "CD rome", and say "supposably".
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Post by: Knight Templar on November 30, 2002, 07:50:23 pm
GIF as in "gift" right?

"ta" instead of "to"

"mulk" instead of milk... :blah:


props for the dead topic revivage
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Post by: Goober5000 on November 30, 2002, 08:10:37 pm
w00t!  ZylonBane agrees!  That's what I think, too.  "MEE-sahn" sounds just as illiterate as "nucular".

Thanks, ZylonBane, for the dictionary link. :nod:

And it's pronounced "GIF", like the peanut butter. :D
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Post by: Knight Templar on November 30, 2002, 08:19:54 pm
But why would it be like a J? It's with a G. G makes the "Guh" sound like "Gift" without the T, right?
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Post by: Galemp on November 30, 2002, 11:36:00 pm
Vote bumping=bad
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Post by: Goober5000 on November 30, 2002, 11:40:47 pm
*ignores GalacticEmperor* :D

Usually, G before an E, I, or Y changes the hard G sound "Guh" to a soft G sound "Juh".  Just like C changes from "Kuh" to "Suh".  Gift is an exception. :)
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Post by: Galemp on December 01, 2002, 12:13:39 am
Ignore me, eh? *sharpens axe* Well then he won't be suspecting anything, will he...
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Post by: Knight Templar on December 01, 2002, 12:45:18 am
I say you give him the good ol' force lightning ;7

Juh... :ick
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Post by: ZylonBane on December 02, 2002, 11:14:48 am
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Hey, anything on Page 1 is fair game. :p

As for "GIF"... yes it is properly pronounced "jif" (http://www.skizzers.org/andy/stuff/gif/gif.html).
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Post by: Goober5000 on December 02, 2002, 01:46:50 pm
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
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Hey, anything on Page 1 is fair game. :p


ZylonBane, who are you quoting?

*squints at thread*

Oh, it's GalacticEmperor.  Have you finished sharpening your axe yet?


*takes a closer look at axe*

Hey, isn't that Tiara's?
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Post by: Galemp on December 02, 2002, 04:42:22 pm
Shush... :p