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Poll - Poll - How to pronounce Luclin?
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> post Restina shared from FoH AMA <
Do you pronounce it "Luck-lin" or "Loose-lin"?
Jenn: Luck-lin
Jonathan: Luck-lin. I thought it was Loose-lin before I heard the developers that worked on that expansion say the name out loud.
Holly: Confirmed: Luck-lin
When it came out, someone told me it was "Loo Shan" so i still have a habit im trying to break of calling it that.
> Here's a funny snippet about pronouncing it from ALovingRobot's interview with JChan <
Do you pronounce it "Luck-lin" or "Loose-lin"?
Jenn: Luck-lin
Jonathan: Luck-lin. I thought it was Loose-lin before I heard the developers that worked on that expansion say the name out loud.
Holly: Confirmed: Luck-lin
When it came out, someone told me it was "Loo Shan" so i still have a habit im trying to break of calling it that.
> Here's a funny snippet about pronouncing it from ALovingRobot's interview with JChan <
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When EQ2 started it was pronounced Luck-Linn in the video.
Smokeybear72
Only YOU can prevent forest fires !
Luck-Lin from Day 1 for me.. I have heard some folks pronounce it as Loose-Lin in chat channels and kinda drove me crazy.... but then again they also call a Beer Stein (Stine) a STEEEN ... errrrghhh 
I've played exclusively on the Luclin server since I started EQ in 2001ish. It was then, and always has been, "luck-lin". Any other pronunciation is objectively wrong and you should feel much shame for having thought otherwise. Like that scene from Billy Madison. "Loose-lin" people are Adam Sandler and I'm the moderator telling you how wrong you are.
I went to click full screen and instead hit a random part of the video and saw the subtitles warn me not to put a cock on my foot. So from this thread I learned luck-lin and don't put cocks on your feet. Cool.
Yeah I was always getting argo mixed up and since I am not a power player I am very timid in some things. Then I realized that I use Argo Corn starch in my baking and no way would you want to use that on a mob.
luclinjunkie
Seasoned veteran member
I say loose-lin, but I know it's Luck-lin. And I don't care. I think there's a video from The Everquest Show on YouTube where they ask the dev team to pronounce it >_<.
/agree
And yeah, they had a video where they asked several different groups of their own devs, artists, authors, etc. to pronounce a handful of different names from the game. There was a lot of disagreement. It was amusing.
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nobody cares what they say. It's loose-lin. Not my fault they can't pronounce it correct Lol.
They can go play in traffic right along with people that pronounce Qeynos "Keynos"
They can go play in traffic right along with people that pronounce Qeynos "Keynos"
yeah but you say kuh-whey-knows
call me Frogger!
or slap my ass and call me Sally.
since it doesn‘t have a “u” after the Q all bets are off!
Correctly.Damnit man! Now we need another poll. How DO you pronounce Qeynos?
like data and not data
yeah, soiduts989 didn't have the same ring to it
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In D&D they are pronounced how ever the GM says they are pronounced!
luclinjunkie
Seasoned veteran member
Definitely Kay-nos.
Sum1
Warriors are inferior (read: crybaby) tanks
Everyone who chose "luck-lin" or "luke-lin" are wrong, and this is why:
The most incorrect way to pronounce "luclin" is "luck-lin." The only English words where "Luck" is the beginning sound in a word are words where the first four letters are literally "luck." All other words that begin with "luc" and are followed my a consonant (almost always "r") are pronounced "luke" ... which is incidentally the second most incorrect way to pronounce "luclin."
Leaving the only actually accurate way to pronounce the word, and that's "loose"-lin.
Data: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-start-with-luc
The most incorrect way to pronounce "luclin" is "luck-lin." The only English words where "Luck" is the beginning sound in a word are words where the first four letters are literally "luck." All other words that begin with "luc" and are followed my a consonant (almost always "r") are pronounced "luke" ... which is incidentally the second most incorrect way to pronounce "luclin."
Leaving the only actually accurate way to pronounce the word, and that's "loose"-lin.
Data: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-start-with-luc
Nice try. “If you ignore the data I’m producing and only read the improper inference that I’m saying…it leaves the only way to pronounce it the way I’m saying.”
As you mentioned, in every example you gave, the one followed by the consonant is pronounced using the hard consonant sound, but you don’t give a reason that that’s wrong in this case. Doing it by example from that list would actually point to “luke” being correct since there is no refutation where a vowel followed by a consonant uses a soft sound. You also have examples of where a c followed by a vowel makes a hard sound (meaning the only cases in your example where there is a soft c sound are followed by the letters i or e). That puts “Luke” as the only unrefuted example from the list.
While your argument could stand for “you need a k to make the luck sound because no other example has this” none of the examples matter because we don’t pronounce by example and it’s not an English word.
Interestingly, the majority of words on that list derive from the Latin “lux” which is pronounced “lucks.”
For more examples using real words (but, again, none of the examples matter):
www.thefreedictionary.com
www.thefreedictionary.com
www.thefreedictionary.com
Another one is — Do you pronounce the abbreviation for Spirit of Wolf with “sow” like a mother pig (or “cow”) or do you pronounce it with “sow” like to plant seeds (or “go”)? If you base it on the “of” sound, it’s always the latter. Do you change the pronunciation when you use it as a verb versus a noun?
As you mentioned, in every example you gave, the one followed by the consonant is pronounced using the hard consonant sound, but you don’t give a reason that that’s wrong in this case. Doing it by example from that list would actually point to “luke” being correct since there is no refutation where a vowel followed by a consonant uses a soft sound. You also have examples of where a c followed by a vowel makes a hard sound (meaning the only cases in your example where there is a soft c sound are followed by the letters i or e). That puts “Luke” as the only unrefuted example from the list.
While your argument could stand for “you need a k to make the luck sound because no other example has this” none of the examples matter because we don’t pronounce by example and it’s not an English word.
Interestingly, the majority of words on that list derive from the Latin “lux” which is pronounced “lucks.”
For more examples using real words (but, again, none of the examples matter):
Words containing ucl | Words that contain ucl
Words containing ucl, words that contain ucl, words including ucl, words with ucl in them
Words containing ucli | Words that contain ucli
Words containing ucli, words that contain ucli, words including ucli, words with ucli in them
Words containing uclin | Words that contain uclin
Words containing uclin, words that contain uclin, words including uclin, words with uclin in them
Another one is — Do you pronounce the abbreviation for Spirit of Wolf with “sow” like a mother pig (or “cow”) or do you pronounce it with “sow” like to plant seeds (or “go”)? If you base it on the “of” sound, it’s always the latter. Do you change the pronunciation when you use it as a verb versus a noun?
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Well, yes, if you only look at words derived from nuclear you will only see words derived from nuclear. But I’m pretty sure Euclidean isn’t derived from nuclear.
My wife doesn’t really read full words, she just kind of “gets the gist” of a word and yolos it. For a long time she pronounced one of my character’s surnames wrong because she saw a word that wasn’t there and just rolled with it because it made sense to her.
My wife doesn’t really read full words, she just kind of “gets the gist” of a word and yolos it. For a long time she pronounced one of my character’s surnames wrong because she saw a word that wasn’t there and just rolled with it because it made sense to her.
you can't say "i prounce luclin "luclin""!
are you saying you pronounce it "loo clin"?
That’s not even on the board!
Playing SonyEQ backwards probably sounds a lot like you’re summoning a demon.
This is what I was going for with Luke-Lin. It's how I always pronounced it.