Talk:Ko-Koro

So there's a running error in the BEU what I just noticed. The pronunciations of the matoran (mat-OAR-an), kini (kih-NEE - this one is used for the Kini-Nui article), wahi (wah-HEE), metru (MET-troo) (okay, it doesn't differ but in "Ko-Metru" the "ko" pronunciation is wrong), Suva (SOO-vah), Koro (KOAR-oh), the "ta-" (TAH)and the "ko-"prefix (KOE) somewhere differs from these basics. I mean:

GAH-mat-OR-an, GAH-MET-troo, GAH-kin-NEE, GAH-koar-OH, GAH-soo-VAH, GAH-wah-HEE
KOE-mat-OR-an, KOH-MET-troo, KOE-kih-NEE, KOE-koar-OH, KOH-soo-VAH, KOH-wah-HEE
LAY-mat-OAR-an, LAY-MET-troo, LAY-kih-NEE, LAY-KOAR-oh, LAY-SOO-vah, LAY-WAH-hee
oh-NOO-mat-OAR-an, oh-NOO-MET-troo, oh-NOO-KIH-nee, oh-NOO-KOAR-oh, oh-NOO-SOO-vah, oh-NOO-WAH-hee
POH-mat-OAR-an, POH-MET-troo, POH-kih-NEE, POH-koar-OH, POH-soo-WAH, POH-wah-HEE
TAH-mat-OAR-an, TAH-MET-troo, TAH-kih-NEE, Ta-Koro: TAH-koar-OH; Ta-Koro Guard: tah-KOAR-oh, TAH-soo-VAH, TAH-wah-HEE

The bold ones are the correct ones. If it's a mistake, that's an interesting one, I think. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 19:25, 15 September 2017 (CET)

Interesting. The thing about English is there can be tons of ways to write the same sound. "KOE" or "KOH" are pronounced the same, so that's fine. If we're after consistency we can pick one and roll with it. (I prefer "KOH" myself, even though "KOE" is used more.) Same with "OR" and "OAR." I suppose "kih-NEE" is better than "kin-NEE" because "kin-NEE" blends the "ki" and "ni" syllables together. I'm not sure why some words have different stress though. Adding prefixes shouldn't change the stress at all. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 18:56, 16 September 2017 (CET)

i'm not sure what surel is saying in the beginning, i think i'm just too tired and getting lost in all the combinations of big and small letters lol. but i wanted to point out that KOE could be pronounced KOH-ee or KOH, while KOH can only be pronounced KOH. that's what i was saying on the nuhrii page - while the BEU has little things listed for their pronunciations, they're often wrong or ambiguous. Intelligence4 (talk) 22:11, 16 September 2017 (CET)

The small-large letters are the stress, as Morris said. I wanted to show that how the stress and the pronunciations are different in the encyclopedia (for me unknown reasons) when they got a prefix. The bold ones matches with the basic pronunciations (in the beginning of my comment in bold) — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 22:23, 16 September 2017 (CET)

I'm still not getting it - are some of the entries in the beu listed differently from each other, or from other sources? Intelligence4 (talk)

What do you don't understand in "running error in the BEU?" It literally means that all of this came from the entries of the BEU, and the prefixes makes the original pronunciation different. Yes, every listed pronunciations came from the BEU, I had at least 30 minutes on searching and insert them there in the same format as the BEU uses, in the stress (little-big letters. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 22:36, 16 September 2017 (CET)