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JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 May 2019, 09:50 ---Not much - I wondered if you'd been seduced by a greater similarity between Jet and Ged-with-a-J; but you haven't, so all's good.
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"Hard G" as in God? (So "Gehd")?
Ged, to me, IS almost the same as Jet (G as in "Gee")
Isn't text great for pronunciation discussions? :)
pwhodges:
Ged like Get, not Jed like Jet.
oddtail:
I'm nearing the end of "An Artist of the Floating World" by Kazuo Ishiguro. I first heard of the writer way back in college - one of my professors was often raving about him - but I didn't get around to reading any of his novels until now.
It's... kinda amazing. My mother (whom I bought the book) described it as "a novel where nothing happens", but she really, really liked it. And honestly? That's a good description. Nothing really happens throughout the book. There's not much of a story. But it's also very good. The dialogue maintains tension and held my interest really well.
I'm definitely reading more books by this guy, and soon. If they are all this well-written, his 2017 Nobel Prize was well-deserved.
Tova:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 31 May 2019, 09:17 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 May 2019, 09:50 ---Not much - I wondered if you'd been seduced by a greater similarity between Jet and Ged-with-a-J; but you haven't, so all's good.
--- End quote ---
"Hard G" as in God? (So "Gehd")?
Ged, to me, IS almost the same as Jet (G as in "Gee")
Isn't text great for pronunciation discussions? :)
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Well, if you read the books and arrived at different pronunciations to the author's, then I think it's worth noting that you have her blessing.
--- Quote ---You the Reader have Reader’s Rights. One of them is to pronounce made-up names and words the way you want to.
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From her website.
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/FAQ.html#Names
Theta9:
Well, I'm going with the way Rob Inglis pronounced them in the audiobook.
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