If I remember correctly Monica once called him Teztical while roaring drunk... I've always pronounced them My-a-whel and Teh-pose-teh-caljwhouk wrote:Pablo has been silent on both pronunciations.
I say it "Tee-pause-teh-cal" and "May-a-hell".
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Re: The Sword 2014-04-16
You know that light at the end of the tunnel?
Yeah... it's a bullet. Sorry.
Yeah... it's a bullet. Sorry.
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When Tepoztecal was first introduced, I misread it and thought it was pronounced "teapots tea kettle". I still like mine better.
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I'm confident what DilyV wrote is about as close as you can get as an English speaker, assuming the original Lanthian language sounds like the native/latin American tongues that followed. Adding the "h" gets you closer in tone but vowels in Spanish don't actually have the drawn out sound that implies.
a = somewhere between "at" and "all"
e = like "teh"
i = like "ee"
o = somewhere between "oz" and "boat"
u = like "tutu"
a = somewhere between "at" and "all"
e = like "teh"
i = like "ee"
o = somewhere between "oz" and "boat"
u = like "tutu"
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Somewhere in this plotline is the makings of a DirectTV ad.
"...and when you go running with scissors, you can scare your Aunt Acacia.
"DON'T SCARE YOUR AUNT ACACIA."
"...and when you go running with scissors, you can scare your Aunt Acacia.
"DON'T SCARE YOUR AUNT ACACIA."
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You can always tell when a little kid is faking being dead - they always stick out their tongue.
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I pronounce Tepoz the same as you, but My-ah-whell as in Mayan.jwhouk wrote:Pablo has been silent on both pronunciations.
I say it "Tee-pause-teh-cal" and "May-a-hell".
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Though I would not be at all surprised if the other characters DO pronounce it "May-Aw-Hell."
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With Castela and the scissors, though, I don't even think that it's her "insides" that matter. She seems to be a tangle of vines for the most part, so the scissors went through between the vines. They went through the "inside" part of the pile of vines, but not through the insides of Castela's actual bodyparts.jayessell wrote:I read/heard somewhere that up to a certain age (not sure what age) kids have no
concept of their bodies having internal organs. That their insides are homogeneous,
like a baked potato.
In Castela's case, that's true?
Given that she can exhale flames or plasma, I wouldn't want to be around when she gets to that stage of hangover.Dave wrote:. . .can't recall whether Paul has ever declared whether her golem programming/emulation is complete enough for her to barf.
That was a guest strip, I believe.DilyV wrote:If I remember correctly Monica once called him Teztical while roaring drunk...
Ah, yep.
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The repository of all human knowledge says it is pronounced /teposˈteːkat͡ɬ/ ("Teh-pos-TEK-a-tchah"), and Mayahuel is /maˈjawel/ ("mah-YAH-wel"). I prefer to keep it simple and call them "Tepoz" and "Jin's Mom."loxmyth wrote:Did we ever get a pronunciation guide for all the characters' names? For no good reason, I've been tending to shift the z in Tepoztecal slightly toward zh...
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Just so long as you don't call them late for dinner.Dr. Otter wrote:I prefer to keep it simple and call them "Tepoz" and "Jin's Mom."
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Or happy hour.Catawampus wrote:Just so long as you don't call them late for dinner.Dr. Otter wrote:I prefer to keep it simple and call them "Tepoz" and "Jin's Mom."
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To paraphrase one of Comics Curmudgeon's favorite quotes, Castela knew where Kath kept the good scissors.
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Someone needs to sit Castela down and explain to her that some very very bad things happened to Aunt Acacia a long time ago, and doing things that remind her of it is cruel. As cruel as, say, throwing away your daughter because you just didn't want her.
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Good thought.
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Maybe there's no need to be quite that blunt; just tell Castela that Aunt Acacia was genuinely scared because she didn't know the little one was able to survive falling on a pair of scissors like that.Prester Fred wrote:Someone needs to sit Castela down and explain to her that some very very bad things happened to Aunt Acacia a long time ago, and doing things that remind her of it is cruel. As cruel as, say, throwing away your daughter because you just didn't want her.
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Assuming that Castela is mature enough to truly comprehend the abstracts of how other people feel about such things. If not, comparing it to how Castela herself felt might be the best way of getting her to understand.MerchManDan wrote:Maybe there's no need to be quite that blunt; just tell Castela that Aunt Acacia was genuinely scared because she didn't know the little one was able to survive falling on a pair of scissors like that.Prester Fred wrote:Someone needs to sit Castela down and explain to her that some very very bad things happened to Aunt Acacia a long time ago, and doing things that remind her of it is cruel. As cruel as, say, throwing away your daughter because you just didn't want her.