"Irrlicht" pronunciation :D.

Repgahroll · Post by **Repgahroll** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:40 pm

I have little idea on how is the correct pronunciation (in good german) of the word "Irrlicht"

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I'm curious about it... i tried to reproduce on some online synthesizers but i don't know if it's correct.

"Iahr-leesht" ?? =/.

It's hard to reproduce written, if any of you found a good online synthesizer that pronounces correctly just lemme know!

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:43 pm

There's a wav file with an example in the FAQ:

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/faq.html#whatdoesitmean

m_krzywy · Post by **m_krzywy** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:02 pm

sounds like german

sRc · Post by **sRc** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:32 pm

thats because it is german

Repgahroll · Post by **Repgahroll** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:00 pm

Oh mine!

Is it normal? I mean... she keeps a lot of time saying "rrrr".

EEh-rrrr-leeshth... i think on a conversation it is spoken faster.

I would like to hear a male german saying this... like those machoes that we see on movies

hehehe

It isn't very important however

just pure curiosity.

randomMesh · Post by **randomMesh** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:26 pm

Maybe Reiner can help.

Repgahroll · Post by **Repgahroll** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:37 pm

I'm sorry but the pronunciation generated by this tts has nothing to do with the one at irrliht faqs.

And i'm talking 'bout those german army generals seen on wwii movies... Reiner is a little bit gay

haffax · Post by **haffax** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:14 pm

Reiner has pronunciation of Irrlicht all wrong, but his Streichholzschächtelchen is almost right.

Anyway, I wouldn't pronounce Irrlicht like the girl either. The lichtpart is right, but eerrrrrrr is wrong. The Irr part is more like the ur in urban, though a bit more ee-like. Hard to describe obviously.

Geomaster · Post by **Geomaster** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:20 pm

Hey, what gender is the noun "Irrlicht"? I mean, would you say der Irrlicht ,das Irrlicht or die Irrlicht?

randomMesh · Post by **randomMesh** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:26 pm

Geomaster wrote:Hey, what gender is the noun "Irrlicht"? I mean, would you say der Irrlicht ,das Irrlicht or die Irrlicht?

Das Irrlicht.

Repgahroll · Post by **Repgahroll** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:47 pm

Geomaster wrote:Hey, what gender is the noun "Irrlicht"? I mean, would you say der Irrlicht ,das Irrlicht or die Irrlicht?

Hey... i can understand that Der/Die are used for objects like if it has a gender, it's like in italian/french/spanish... Der is Masculine and Die is feminine (i think).

However, there's another one... Das, i suspect its used for neutral, but i'm not sure.

Because in latin-based languages the neutral is the masculine also.

That's one thing i like in english... there are no such complications. You don't have to memorize if the bike (for example) is feminine or masculine. In spanish, el moto or lo moto is wrong, the correct is la moto. And there's no other way to know it than memorizing.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:06 am

Repgahroll wrote: However, there's another one... Das, i suspect its used for neutral, but i'm not sure.

Yeah, "das" is gender neutral. And you would use "Das Irrlicht" when talking about a will-o'-wisp, but you use "Die Irrlicht 3D Engine" when talking about the engine because you refer to the software which is feminine. Also the girl speaking in the .wav rolls the r a lot nicer than I could, but maybe she's Austrian and they roll those rrr's a lot as you probably know from the Terrrminatorrr.

Repgahroll · Post by **Repgahroll** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:07 pm

CuteAlien wrote:"Die Irrlicht 3D Engine" when talking about the engine because you refer to the software which is feminine.

In Latin is the opposite... software is masculine... now I understand why germans has a lot of difficulty to learn latin languages.

However, i think its very very easy for a german to learn english, because to me english looks like a simplified german

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Anyway... i'm happy because my native language is based on Latin, so it was very easy for me to learn the other latin-based languages... i think if it was german i would be better

, but its better latin-based than japanese, russian, and such unusual languages.

I wonder how hard is for a japanese to learn english =/.

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:56 pm

Ok I recorded me saying "irrlicht". Maybe this helps

http://pub.btbsoft.org/irrlicht.ogg

Repgahroll · Post by **Repgahroll** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:44 am

It helps a lot

Thanks man!

I didn't now there was such difference between the pronunciations in Germany and Austria... i thought it was almost the same.

By the way... german is a language that doesn't ""fit"" very well women (in my opinion). A woman speaking in german sounds "guyish" or something. You know... french "fits" very well the women's voice suavity, however any man speaking in french sounds a bit gay.

German is a "strong" language.