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Post by felderburg on Jan 15, 2014 14:57:51 GMT
Just had a question, and it looks like there's nothing about it yet. How do you pronounce Jeanne? Is it Gee-Ann, Jean, or Genie? There's a street in my town called Princess Jeanne, and I've never been sure about that either.
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Post by exuberancium on Jan 15, 2014 15:32:30 GMT
I believe its pronounced sort of like 'zawn', much like the French pronounciation of Joan of Arc.
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Post by legion on Jan 15, 2014 15:54:16 GMT
The closest to French pronunciation you can get I think is "zhAHn", where "zh" is to "sh" what "z" is to "s", aka the sound of "s" in "leisure"; [ʒan] if you really want to get technical.
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Post by Deepbluediver on Jan 15, 2014 16:02:37 GMT
It's always been pronounced "jean" in my head when I read it but, I'm terribly about this sort of thing. I was pronouncing "Gillete" like the brand of razor blades for years until I read the official post about it.
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Post by fish on Jan 15, 2014 18:03:36 GMT
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 15, 2014 20:04:51 GMT
It's always been pronounced "jean" in my head when I read it Same here. Then again, yanks pronounce Jaguar "Jag-war" so I think it's in our Jeannes genes to butcher foreign names. I was pronouncing "Gillete" like the brand of razor blades for years until I read the official post about it. >Gillete Wood, now with seven etheric blades for unparalleled smoothness
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Post by legion on Jan 15, 2014 20:27:55 GMT
(I've been told single-blade razors are actually much better for the skin)
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Post by Lightice on Jan 15, 2014 21:55:37 GMT
Just had a question, and it looks like there's nothing about it yet. How do you pronounce Jeanne? Is it Gee-Ann, Jean, or Genie? Since she's French, go with the French pronounciation. One syllable, very sibilant s-sound, halfway to sounding like z.
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Post by legion on Jan 16, 2014 1:10:59 GMT
Like I said, the initial sound in "Jeanne" is the sound of "s" in "pleasure". English *has* that sound, it is not a foreign sound; English just lacks a consistent and unambiguous way to spell it (though you might encounter "zh" when transcribing Russian names (like Zhivago), but I don't know to which degree the average English speaker knows how to interpret "zh").
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Post by lit on Jan 16, 2014 2:48:25 GMT
In my head, Annie pronounces it the French way, and Kat just calls her Jean, like blue jeans. There's no basis for this, since they probably both pronounce it whatever way the robots do. But I like it.
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 16, 2014 6:47:00 GMT
Like I said, the initial sound in "Jeanne" is the sound of "s" in "pleasure". English *has* that sound, it is not a foreign sound; English just lacks a consistent and unambiguous way to spell it (though you might encounter "zh" when transcribing Russian names (like Zhivago), but I don't know to which degree the average English speaker knows how to interpret "zh"). I use this sound all the time. But I am not the average English speaker.
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Post by zimmyzims on Jan 16, 2014 10:01:04 GMT
Like I said, the initial sound in "Jeanne" is the sound of "s" in "pleasure". English *has* that sound, it is not a foreign sound; English just lacks a consistent and unambiguous way to spell it (though you might encounter "zh" when transcribing Russian names (like Zhivago), but I don't know to which degree the average English speaker knows how to interpret "zh"). I use this sound all the time. But I am not the average English speaker. Or then you're just having exceptionally a lot of pleasure and being very verbal about it.
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Post by Toloc on Jan 16, 2014 13:19:35 GMT
In my head it always sounded like "Jean Grey" or "Gene Roddenberry".
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Post by nightwind on Jan 16, 2014 15:41:05 GMT
You got it. If Annie and Kat pronounce her properly is another matter.
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Post by helicopter on Jan 16, 2014 20:04:44 GMT
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 16, 2014 20:42:15 GMT
You got it. If Annie and Kat pronounce her properly is another matter. I am pretty sure they pronounce it right: they heard Diego say it, via the last original robot.
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Post by felderburg on Jan 29, 2014 17:28:05 GMT
Sorry for the delayed response, but I totally forgot that I had posted this! I guess I missed the part where Jeanne was revealed to be French - when was that?
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Post by sidhekin on Jan 29, 2014 17:54:40 GMT
We know she spoke French. 649, 652, 779 ...
I don't know if she was French. I mean, she could have been Belgian, right? ;-)
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 30, 2014 4:06:29 GMT
I mean, she could have been Belgian, right? ;-) Or just a Brit with a high-class education. Even old Vlad P. spricht Franzosisch.
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Post by Covalent on Jan 30, 2014 4:21:20 GMT
Am I the only one who pronounced it "Gee-anne?" Soft "G", by the way.
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Post by znntqkumxh on Feb 3, 2014 10:33:23 GMT
I just go with Sean.
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Post by bansheekitty on Feb 3, 2014 14:15:27 GMT
I've always pronounced "Jeanne" as "jean-ee". I've known people with that name, and that's always how they pronounced it. Don't know how French people would pronounce it though (I'm American).
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Post by Georgie L on Feb 5, 2014 20:35:58 GMT
I pronounce it like Je een
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Post by Eversist on Feb 6, 2014 2:52:13 GMT
I think Tom may have mentioned the French background on his Formspring, but I may be totally making that up, too.
I'm helpful.
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Post by Daedalus on Feb 6, 2014 2:53:49 GMT
I pronounce it Jeen (one syllable, like the denim pants). But I'm very, very sure I'm wrong.
I suspect Zhahn (or however you transcribe that: rhymes with 'yawn') is correct. But only Tom knows for sure, of course.
I'll ask my French friend tomorrow.
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Post by stef1987 on Feb 6, 2014 20:00:06 GMT
Damn, I just realised I've been saying it wrong all the time, the comic is in english, so I pronounce everything english-y, including names. So I've been pronouncing it like "gene" the whole time, which is actually the same was as I pronounce "Jean", is that correct? I was pronouncing "Gillete" like the brand of razor blades for years until I read the official post about it. I always pronounce it kinda like guilty, sometimes with an extra "le", like guil-le-ty, is that correct or completely wrong?
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Post by Señor Goose on Feb 7, 2014 1:38:25 GMT
Gulby, lend us your wisdom!
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Post by Deepbluediver on Feb 7, 2014 2:09:48 GMT
I always pronounce it kinda like guilty, sometimes with an extra "le", like guil-le-ty, is that correct or completely wrong? If I'm recalling the blog post correctly (and I might not be) it was pronounced something like j hill-eh-tay, so you where kinda close. I'm sure you can find the exact post with a little searching, but unfortunately a few to many vodka-tonics are interfering with my google-fu at the moment.
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Post by Daedalus on Feb 7, 2014 4:08:00 GMT
I asked my friend who speaks French, and she said that she would guess Jeanne was pronounced like Zhen-ay (kind of like 'Jenny' with an accent on the last syllable; rhymes with 'pay').
Who knows.
And I'm one of the guil-le-ty party on the latter question.
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Post by Gulby on Feb 7, 2014 8:12:56 GMT
I follow this topic from the beginning, but as it's a character, I don't know if Tom want her name to be pronounced à la française or not. :/ If it is the french pronunciation, then : The "Spl0uf" one is the correct one. I don't know at all how to write it for you, I'll try with "Zh(?)-ah-n" (no, I'm not talking about german teeth) ?... Same "ah" sound as in algorithm ? I can't believe that we have a sound that you don't have ('J'), actually.
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