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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?

MEE-sahn
27 (71.1%)
MAY-zahn
7 (18.4%)
Something else (explain below)
4 (10.5%)

Total Members Voted: 38

Voting closed: September 30, 2002, 02:22:51 pm

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Offline Goober5000

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
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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Offline Solatar

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
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.

 

Offline Carl

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
it's like data and data.
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Offline an0n

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
meh-s'n.
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Offline BlackDove

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
Just like they pronounce it in-game...Meson...first option :wtf:

 

Offline Sandwich

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
Bigg-A** Bomb- oh, wait! That wasn't an option, was it? :doubt:
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Offline CP5670

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
I always learned to say it by the first option.

 

Offline Knight Templar

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
Meh-Sonn

or

what an0n said
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Offline vyper

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mee-sohn!
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Offline Stunaep

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
the way they say it in the main campaign.

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

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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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Offline Goober5000

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
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

 

Offline mikhael

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
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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Offline Liberator

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may-sahn
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Offline JC Denton

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
MEE-sahn.  Although I sometimes say it MEY-sahn...
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Offline Killfrenzy

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
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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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Offline Stryke 9

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
"Baryon"

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

 

Offline Colonol Dekker

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
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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Offline Shrike

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
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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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Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'?
Mee z'n, so there.