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Title: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: chenjesummrnmhrm on August 10, 2007, 06:31:53 am It feels like a silly thing to say, but one of my littler pet peeves is when people spell Mmrnmhrm wrong. (Especially on this forum.)
Any thoughts? Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Shiver on August 10, 2007, 06:48:14 am I sure don't! Half the time I just say "MM" because I don't want to bother with that mess.
Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: C. Bob on August 10, 2007, 06:50:47 am Me.
- Bob Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Valaggar on August 10, 2007, 11:43:02 am I've always spelled it correctly.
Why? Because as a native speaker of a Romance language, it's easy for me to just add "uh" sounds between the consonants in "Mmrnmhrm". That is, "M-uh-rn m-uh-h-uh-rm". Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Elvish Pillager on August 10, 2007, 12:33:16 pm It's easy for me to spell "mmrnmhrm", and I have never had trouble pronouncing it either.
Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Galactic on August 11, 2007, 09:15:57 am As somebody in this forum said earlier, Mannerheim.
No, it's easy to spell. Like this: M m r n m h m r. And easy to pronounce too. Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Novus on August 11, 2007, 11:32:55 am No, it's easy to spell. Like this: Mmrnmhmr. And easy to pronounce too. I think you mean "Mmrnmhrm". The pronunciation seems to be a problem. I'm not an expert in phonetics, but as near as I can tell, the Chmmr and Spathi seem to use something like [mɝn.hɝm], the Yehat seem to be saying ['məɾ.nəmˌhəɾm] and Hayes uses ['mɝ.nɜ,hɝm].Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Valaggar on August 11, 2007, 01:15:36 pm Canonically, the Chmmr pronunciation is correct. You are supposed not to open your mouth:
IRC1998 <Pulse^> <Tsing:#starcontrol-chat> Here's a good question - just how DO you pronounce MMRNMHRM? <Fwiffo> Just pretend you have no mouth and MMRNMHRM is easy to say Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Galactic on August 11, 2007, 01:19:19 pm No, it's easy to spell. Like this: Mmrnmhmr. And easy to pronounce too. I think you mean "M m r n m h r m". The pronunciation seems to be a problem. I'm not an expert in phonetics, but as near as I can tell, the Chmmr and Spathi seem to use something like [mɝn.hɝm], the Yehat seem to be saying ['məɾ.nəmˌhəɾm] and Hayes uses ['mɝ.nɜ,hɝm].Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Valaggar on August 11, 2007, 01:21:33 pm You swapped the last two letters.
Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Novus on August 11, 2007, 02:02:22 pm Canonically, the Chmmr pronunciation is correct. You are supposed not to open your mouth: That doesn't really tell us whether the two-syllable (Chmmr) or three-syllable (Hayes) version is correct.IRC1998 <Pulse^> <Tsing:#starcontrol-chat> Here's a good question - just how DO you pronounce MMRNMHRM? <Fwiffo> Just pretend you have no mouth and MMRNMHRM is easy to say Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Valaggar on August 11, 2007, 09:41:59 pm Nope, true, but we can fashion a good guess: With two syllables and without opening your mouth, "Mmrnmhrm" sounds more like a... "swooping robot sound", a sort of R2-D2. Thus it's more likely that it was intended to be pronounced like this.
Or maybe the correct pronunciation is in a single syllable. Admittedly, it's impossible for a human to pronounce it like that - which gives us a good excuse for having different races pronounce it differently: they have to separate the word into syllables to be able to pronounce it. Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: RTyp06 on August 19, 2007, 03:58:59 pm I can't recall the need to verbally pronounce it ever arising.
Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: meep-eep on August 19, 2007, 04:06:38 pm I don't recall who made it up, but I use the mnemonic "My MoRoN May HaRM."
Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: RedDaVinci on August 21, 2007, 05:51:50 pm It's two packets of memory information:
One for "MMRN" One for "MHRM" And it's "MER-NEM-ERM" or, preferably, "mrnmrnmrnmnrmnrmnrmnm" Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Galactic on August 21, 2007, 06:02:01 pm You should know this.
(http://starcontrol.classicgaming.gamespy.com/fan/images/ye_good_old_times_of_the_old_alliance!.jpg) Title: Re: Who else knows how to spell Mmrnmhrm? Post by: Elvish Pillager on August 21, 2007, 08:12:31 pm And it's "MER-NEM-ERM" No, it's "MMRN-MHRM" fool! :P |