Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 25, 2004, at 06:52  AM, Barbara Barrett wrote:
>
>> Barbara Babbles;
>> I'm sure I must have been a victim of FLOES many times but for the
>> life of
>> me can only recall a single example, which was from Frank Herbert's
>> "Dune";
>> city Arakiss I pronounced as if it was a gaelic place name "ara-kiss" -
>> other SF fans were quick to correct me to say "Ay-rak-iss".
>>
>
> But "Ay-rak-iss" makes no sense at all!
> It's *obviously* ;-), like everything else in _Dune_, supposed to be
> Middleeasternesque, so i pronounce it either [@'r\&kIs] (stress on the
> |ra| or more pseudo-Arabic style as [ar'ra:kIs].
> I can't express how confused I was when students in the class i read
> Dune for in college pronounced the character "Chani"'s name as
> /'tSejni/.  I mean, who ever heard of a name like that?  Chani is a
> perfectly extant real-life name, and it's pronounced /'xani/.

Arrakis is obviously prounounced [@r\&kIs] - [Ejr&kIs] even goes against
the rules of *English* spelling.  'Chani', on the other hand, is
pronounced [tSA:ni], because that's what it looks like to me.

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