Author Topic: What is your preferred pronunciation of 'meson'? (Read 8563 times)

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?

Solatar · **Reply #1 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.

Carl · **Reply #2 on:** September 30, 2002, 04:22:33 pm

it's like data and data.

an0n · **Reply #3 on:** September 30, 2002, 04:24:13 pm

meh-s'n.

BlackDove · **Reply #4 on:** September 30, 2002, 04:32:40 pm

Just like they pronounce it in-game...Meson...first option

Sandwich · **Reply #5 on:** September 30, 2002, 05:47:00 pm

Bigg-A** Bomb- oh, wait! That wasn't an option, was it?

CP5670 · **Reply #6 on:** September 30, 2002, 08:04:03 pm

I always learned to say it by the first option.

Knight Templar · **Reply #7 on:** September 30, 2002, 08:18:19 pm

Meh-Sonn

or

what an0n said

vyper · **Reply #8 on:** October 01, 2002, 04:17:13 am

mee-sohn!

Stunaep · **Reply #9 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.

vyper · **Reply #10 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.

I'm not English either. But I know the language. There is a difference.

Goober5000 · **Reply #11 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...

mikhael · **Reply #12 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.

Liberator · **Reply #13 on:** October 02, 2002, 11:36:27 am

may-sahn

JC Denton · **Reply #14 on:** October 02, 2002, 03:10:44 pm

MEE-sahn. Although I sometimes say it MEY-sahn...

Killfrenzy · **Reply #15 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

Stryke 9 · **Reply #16 on:** October 02, 2002, 03:50:10 pm

"Baryon"

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

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #17 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)

Shrike · **Reply #18 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.

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #19 on:** October 04, 2002, 01:18:26 pm

Mee z'n, so there.

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