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[Nibbler]

Ok, there are a lot of words in the gaming world that i don't know how to pronounce. For example, I didn't know that Deus Ex was actually pronounced Day-yous Ex. So i'm starting this thread. Anyone who doesn't know how to pronounce a gaming term, post it and hopefully someone will give you the right pronuncation.

 

[*Kornholio*]

Originally posted by Lead Nibbler
Day-yous Ex

Really ?? I though it was more along the lines of 'juice-eggs'

 

[Testin da Cable]

gib and/or giblet

now is it like jib [short and sharp]
or is it like djzib, with more force on the g

 

[Nibbler]

Originally posted by Kornholio[UC_UK]

Originally posted by Lead Nibbler
Day-yous Ex

Really ?? I though it was more along the lines of 'juice-eggs'

That's what I thought but my Mum knows Latin and it means 'God former', so really it should be called Ex Deus (Former God)

And I used to think Gib was pronounced with a G but it's jib

 

[luap]

Gib as in Gibbon innit

 

[Nibbler]

No gib as in giblets, which is pronounced jiblets.

 

[Ch3tan]

I have always heard it pronounced gibbed as in gibbon, not as in jib. It also sounds better.

 

[shabazz]

No, Jib is much better

oh ID software (after seeing that doom 3 vid). Is it idee, or just ID (sounds like ed, but with an i)

(i think the former myself)

 

[luap]

id is an old forum argument. I think the official line from id is Eye Dee


jibbed? noway.

 

[old.Kez]

Originally posted by shabazz
Is it idee, or just ID (sounds like ed, but with an i)

I believe it to be id (as in the part of the psyche related to whatever, note its id in small letters, not big though, as their games show) though I've heard it called I.D.

and its gib (giblets) as it refers to the same kind of bodily organs / spray etc. that you get from giblets (or whatever)

pld me.

 

[luap]

tbh, pld. The giblets thing makes sense but I and everyone I know says Gibbed (ala Gibbon)

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Actually Dues Ex has a word cut off the end. The full phrase means "God in the Machine", apparantly. Can't recall what the other word(s) was though...

 

[Mr B]

Deus Ex Machina

 

[Perplex]

People that pronounce it as "Gib" fucking anger me. It's Jib as in Giblets that you get out of a chicken which is also pronounced Jiblets.

gib·lets (jblts)
pl.n.

The edible heart, liver, or gizzard of a fowl.

I thank you, fuck off

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Originally posted by Mr B
Deus Ex Machina

That's the one. Obvious really.

 

[Testin da Cable]

hmmm

 

[xenon2000]

gib vs. gib

Look, the word aint in the dictionary, and it's safe to say it's an invented word, and there's no right or wrong way to say it. SO STOP ARGUING NOW j00 BIATCHES! I personally pronounce it "gib" as in gibbon, as I was bought up knowing the word "jib" means cum so i would never tell my friend: "I was playing Q3/UT/CS the other day and when I killed my opponent with an RL, he jibbed all over the place"

And on a different note, what about the pronounciation of the Quake episode 1 boss, "Chthon"?

 

[Testin da Cable]

prolly something like Cuthulu

 

[xenon2000]

eh?

I say, suth-on.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Jib = cum?
That's jizz.
Jesus, where the fuck do you come from?

And Gib is pronounced Jib, ta.

 

[old.TUG]

The old ford RS range of cars........ like the escort...

ARSE TURBO!

/me points @ wij

 

[Wazzerphuk]

riight.

 

[old.Kez]

Originally posted by xenon2000
gib vs. gib

Look, the word aint in the dictionary, and it's safe to say it's an invented word

The fact that gib (Jib, soft G, as in giraffe) is a cut down version of Giblets (ditto above) doesn't strike you as in the dictionary then?

I'm told manx people say with a hard G. But thats because they're backwards. Its Jiblets (with a G, obviously) and the sooner you can comprehend the english language the better.

Do not make me post the log of grimmeh being a fuckwit over the whole matter (and giving up to realise I was taking the utter piss)

Lo perplex for actually knowing wtf he's talking about too.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

go kezzeh!

btw, you gt that log for me yet?

 

[WPKenny]

Originally posted by Kez
I'm told manx people say with a hard G. But thats because they're backwards

LOL!!

 

[Nibbler]

You know the E3 games shows? Do you pronounce it E-Three or E-Cubed?

 

[old.Morpheus]

The trouble is, if you say "jib" rather than "gib", you are expected to stick a parrot on your shoulder and shout "splice the mainbrace! AHA me hearties! raise the jib!".

 

[*Kornholio*]

Originally posted by Morpheus
The trouble is, if you say "jib" rather than "gib", you are expected to stick a parrot on your shoulder and shout "splice the mainbrace! AHA me hearties! raise the jib!".

Um, no... you just hang out with strange people

 

[Grom]

Originally posted by Wazzerphuk
Actually Dues Ex has a word cut off the end. The full phrase means "God in the Machine", apparantly. Can't recall what the other word(s) was though...

Deus Ex Machina as Mr B said.

And it means 'God out of the Machinery' literally. It was a term used in Greek plays to indicate when the representation of a god was lowered from the machinery above the stage. The phrase is commonly used to describe a rather implausible and sudden end to a story - because a god can just strike everyone dead, or solve a mystery cos it's a god, or bring someone back to life, and so on.

Go watch The Matrix for a Deus Ex Machina ending.

Grom

 

[*Kornholio*]

/me hands Grom a noddy badge