4 hours ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

Coooobraaa!!!

sorry.. wrong franchise. Scum ship.

FTFY.

Also, where the **** are people getting the "you" sound from, OP???

I pronounce it "Caligula".

Seems like a fitting nickname.

Dont think ive ever heard the gi in gila pronounced without a hard G.

Even the animal gila monster, never heard it pronounced "hee-la" - ever. Its always "Ghee-la"

"Kim-ogg-you-la" ... wat? never heard that one lol

4 hours ago, skotothalamos said:

Then you are definitely not from Gila County Arizona, nor have you encountered a Gila Monster, or been to the Gila River.

It's an actual word. It's a Spanish transliteration of a Yuma Indian word that means "salty." Being Spanish, they wrote the "Hee" sound as "Gi."

And the Star Wars giant lizard that the ship is named for is based on the Gila Monster.

And it is a fictional universe with no Spaniards in it, so there is no need to bring them up in here. The rules of Spanish grammar bear little relevance in a galaxy far far away

24 minutes ago, RufusDaMan said:

And it is a fictional universe with no Spaniards in it, so there is no need to bring them up in here. The rules of Spanish grammar bear little relevance in a galaxy far far away

Nor does the English language, and yet they all speak it. What an amazing coincidence!

28 minutes ago, Vineheart01 said:

Dont think ive ever heard the gi in gila pronounced without a hard G.

Even the animal gila monster, never heard it pronounced "hee-la" - ever. Its always "Ghee-la"

"Kim-ogg-you-la" ... wat? never heard that one lol

guess you didn't watch any streams over the weekend. oh my god, it's awful.

Oh well. Try and educate people and they just say "but everyone else is dumb, too"

This whole thread just goes to show that you can't teach a nerd anything. He's already 110% sure he's right, even though his only source is his own head.

16 hours ago, RufusDaMan said:

And it is a fictional universe with no Spaniards in it, so there is no need to bring them up in here. The rules of Spanish grammar bear little relevance in a galaxy far far away

... But the rules of English grammar do? And, somehow, Imperial squadrons use Greek-letter designations?

When an educated person is faced with a weird spelling, without recourse to any reference authority, the educated person tries to use context to figure out the pronunciation. The fictional nature of the world or universe with the weird spelling -- again, in the absence of a definitive answer -- is irrelevant to how an educated person should approach this.

Therefore, because "gila" is a real word -- and not just Spanish -- and because the relationship between kimogila and gila seems pretty obvious -- big nasty lizards -- then "hee-la" is more likely to be correct.

Because strings of harsh consonants in English tend to drag together gutterally, "Kihraxz" is, more likely than not, pronounced "Kih-rAHZH."

Because "scy" sounds without a trailing silent "E" is usually a short vowel sound (e.g., Scylla), rather than a long vowel sound or -- bizarrely -- a long EE sound, Scyk is, more likely than not, pronounced simply "sick."

And so on. The point is, in the absence of other tools, it's actually a good thing to use existing language rules to puzzle out pronunciation, instead of simply making it up.

And, BTW, can all of you stop @#$% saying "Ah-SHO-ka" and "Om-NEE-cron? There's no "sh" in the second syllable of Ahsoka, fer Christ's sake, and nor is there an "N" in the second syllable of "Omicron." Just read the @#$% card!

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Triggered.

Such cool lizards tho.

In the herpetological community we pronounce the lizard like: "Hee-luh" so that's what I use for the Kimo.

You could just call the Kimogila the Kimono and you'd still have a nice nickname.

I've been just saying "the Kimo"

15 minutes ago, skotothalamos said:

Oh well. Try and educate people and they just say "but everyone else is dumb, too"

Don't sweat it.

I know I'm not going to correct anyone for saying it their own way--because its Star Wars after all. Nothing that needs to be taken too seriously.

Besides, there are examples of names & words that have different pronunciations in the films: Leia & Hoth immediately come to mind.

4 hours ago, Darth Meanie said:

So, is that the "Em Twelve" or the "Em One Two"?

If you get it wrong, somebody's gonna get stabbed in the eye. Or is that a Focus token?

Depends on if you're English or American. American it would be em twelve. English is em one two.

1 hour ago, skotothalamos said:

Nor does the English language, and yet they all speak it. What an amazing coincidence!

Imagine the OT spoken in whatever languages with English subtitles.

1 hour ago, skotothalamos said:

guess you didn't watch any streams over the weekend. oh my god, it's awful.

Oh well. Try and educate people and they just say "but everyone else is dumb, too"

This whole thread just goes to show that you can't teach a nerd anything. He's already 110% sure he's right, even though his only source is his own head.

That's a little harsh. Mostly because it's so close to the truth.

1 hour ago, Celestial Lizards said:

You could just call the Kimogila the Kimono and you'd still have a nice nickname.

And a new vision of the Black Sun flying around in shiny silk bathrobes. . .

1 hour ago, Jeff Wilder said:

... But the rules of English grammar do? And, somehow, Imperial squadrons use Greek-letter designations?

When an educated person is faced with a weird spelling, without recourse to any reference authority, the educated person tries to use context to figure out the pronunciation. The fictional nature of the world or universe with the weird spelling -- again, in the absence of a definitive answer -- is irrelevant to how an educated person should approach this.

Therefore, because "gila" is a real word -- and not just Spanish -- and because the relationship between kimogila and gila seems pretty obvious -- big nasty lizards -- then "hee-la" is more likely to be correct.

Because strings of harsh consonants in English tend to drag together gutterally, "Kihraxz" is, more likely than not, pronounced "Kih-rAHZH."

Because "scy" sounds without a trailing silent "E" is usually a short vowel sound (e.g., Scylla), rather than a long vowel sound or -- bizarrely -- a long EE sound, Scyk is, more likely than not, pronounced simply "sick."

And so on. The point is, in the absence of other tools, it's actually a good thing to use existing language rules to puzzle out punctuation, instead of simply making it up.

And, BTW, can all of you stop @#$% saying "Ah-SHO-ka" and "Om-NEE-cron? There's no "sh" in the second syllable of Ahsoka, fer Christ's sake, and nor is there an "N" in the second syllable of "Omicron." Just read the @#$% card!

...

Triggered.

If anyone remembers Hooked on Phonex then the following will make sense.

A second grade class was quietly reading when one boy pointed at a picture and said, "A friccan elephant". The teacher, somewhat horrified went to see what was up. The young boy was pointing to a picture with the caption "African Elephant".

That ends the lesson for the day.

33 minutes ago, Stoneface said:

If anyone remembers Hooked on Phonex then the following will make sense.

Phonics.

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@#$%.

I totally fell for that, didn't I?

1 hour ago, Jeff Wilder said:

Phonics.

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@#$%.

I totally fell for that, didn't I?

Completely unintentional. My spelling sucks except here and then the auto-correct sucks.

3 hours ago, Jeff Wilder said:

... But the rules of English grammar do? And, somehow, Imperial squadrons use Greek-letter designations?

When an educated person is faced with a weird spelling, without recourse to any reference authority, the educated person tries to use context to figure out the pronunciation. The fictional nature of the world or universe with the weird spelling -- again, in the absence of a definitive answer -- is irrelevant to how an educated person should approach this.

Therefore, because "gila" is a real word -- and not just Spanish -- and because the relationship between kimogila and gila seems pretty obvious -- big nasty lizards -- then "hee-la" is more likely to be correct.

Because strings of harsh consonants in English tend to drag together gutterally, "Kihraxz" is, more likely than not, pronounced "Kih-rAHZH."

Because "scy" sounds without a trailing silent "E" is usually a short vowel sound (e.g., Scylla), rather than a long vowel sound or -- bizarrely -- a long EE sound, Scyk is, more likely than not, pronounced simply "sick."

And so on. The point is, in the absence of other tools, it's actually a good thing to use existing language rules to puzzle out punctuation, instead of simply making it up.

And, BTW, can all of you stop @#$% saying "Ah-SHO-ka" and "Om-NEE-cron? There's no "sh" in the second syllable of Ahsoka, fer Christ's sake, and nor is there an "N" in the second syllable of "Omicron." Just read the @#$% card!

...

Triggered.

^This + a dash of Occam's Razor always helps with SW related names.

Lucas didn't pluck this stuff out of thin air, its all based on something from our world. Whether its Vader's suit being based on Samurai armour, or Tatooine being a real place (Tataouine, Tunisia) it all came from real life in some way.

If there is a real lizard called a Gila Monster, and the fictional ship is named after a fictional lizard that closely resembles the real lizard, its very safe to assume that it would be pronounced the same way.

4 hours ago, skotothalamos said:

Nor does the English language, and yet they all speak it. What an amazing coincidence!

I don’t remember Chewie speaking English.

2 hours ago, Gberezowsky said:

Oh my god what happened to your face?!?

9 hours ago, skotothalamos said:

Then you are definitely not from Gila County Arizona, nor have you encountered a Gila Monster, or been to the Gila River.

It's an actual word. It's a Spanish transliteration of a Yuma Indian word that means "salty." Being Spanish, they wrote the "Hee" sound as "Gi."

And the Star Wars giant lizard that the ship is named for is based on the Gila Monster.

Gila is malay for crazy. It's pronounced with a hard G, like Ali G.

Chris and Martin Kratt, of Zoboomafoo and Wild Kratts fame, both pronounce it Hee-la. Martin is a zoologist so I feel he is a credible source.

Also in Idaho, where I am from, I've only ever heard it pronounced Hee-la.

1 hour ago, spacelion said:

Gila is malay for crazy. It's pronounced with a hard G, like Ali G.

Got a lot of crazy lizards in Malaysia