How Would You Pronounce This? FFXI Edition (feat. Peachio, JoCo, Ruaumoko, and Logical)

[@RetiredGamers]

Which word was your favorite ?

[@hustletowngamers1149]

This was fun to do! Thanks for having me on this! The video came out great!

[@RetiredGamers]

Thank you for contributing! You were fantastic!

[@nueonetwo]

Awesome video, would loved to have seen Konschtat highlands in there.

[@RetiredGamers]

We’ll tackle that in another video!

[@shahua]

This video is great, I'd love to see more like this, Gotta say I never questioned my pronunciation of anything til i met my husband on ff14 around 6 years ago, we got into a discussion about FFXI and how we both missed playing, He said "Ah yeah, I remember having a fun time in Qwifum" and I was confused for a moment, took me a minute or two to realize he meant "Qufim" as i always pronounced it "Qoofim" since day 1 and later the Qoofim NM was added so i was convinced that I was saying it perfectly. We then started rambling for a good few hours just on area names, it was a fun time though. I also love hearing all the different pronunciations of Ronfaure, I always just pronounced it "Ronfour"

[@RetiredGamers]

Wow! Thank you for the comment! We’ve had Real Life take over for the past couple of months but have a few projects in the pipeline including a few more pronunciation videos! Thanks for watching! :)

[@RetiredGamers]

The strangest thing we’ve encountered is our friends from California came over and proceeded to tell us about how they were playing their dirk and durg. Peach and I were so confused, I thought they were talking about new daggers in FFXI. We then realized they were pronouncing Dark Knight (DRK) and Dragoon (DRG) as their abbreviations. We still to this day laugh about it!

[@shahua]

@@RetiredGamers Ohman, that's brilliant! I almost fell off my chair. I can't like this enough.

[@MPAbsorb]

When Rua says it “Yep, that’s right.” When Logical says it *laughing* “Yep, that’s how I say it.”

[@RetiredGamers]

I’m glad we had all sides of the spectrum to pronounce the words!! Lol

[@TaylorDekar]

Loved the video! Keep it up!

[@RetiredGamers]

Thank you! We will do our best!

[@NextGamesGuide]

OK I knew my pronunciations were bad... but only after hearing me say it after others attempt it do I truly know how bad! :) Thanks for asking me to be a part of this, definitely made me laugh. Keep up the good work friend!

[@RetiredGamers]

I was literally laughing the whole time making this video. Everyone had a few funny words!

[@Spainmail]

More of this please! Both for FFXI, and other games without voice acting.

[@RetiredGamers]

Will do! We are planning on it!

[@aaiwnk4463]

I am french and I would like to participate ^^ especially for words that sounds french ! I find your "Ronfaure" pronounciation funny ^^ Thx for video !

[@RetiredGamers]

It would be awesome to have a perspective from different native speakers. I'll keep that in mind in the future! Join the discord and we'll see about having you for a future video!

[@skeletonkey3275]

Joachim, I just call him joe.

[@RetiredGamers]

Joe is a great alternative! Although is it Joe, Yo, or Hua? xD

[@manwinang2198]

Great video and loved it when you guys are pronouncing the words. Just out of curiosity what’s the actual pronunciation of all those words? Out of all you guys, Rua sounded the most convincing that he is correct, probably the way he said it and his voice 🤣

[@RetiredGamers]

Rua definitely got the most correct but I'm not actually sure about the true pronunciation. I'll try to get back to you on this one.

[@SplitFinn]

I’d wager most would get Chango wrong.

[@RetiredGamers]

I'll add it to the next list! lol

[@RetiredGamers]

Hardest word for me was Ruaumoko so I just called you Rua. I didn't want to butcher your name! lol

[@eji]

Ruaumoko sounds like he's right on the money with all of these... Logical is cracking me up because his sound like he's unsure, or that it's a question?

[@Blagax]

As a German i always felt like area names were tailored towards us. Gustaberg berg means mountain in german which fits perfect for that area. Always felt weird when someone pronounced german words with an english/japanese accent lol. I pronounce almost everything different, same goes with the germans i played with during ToAU/WotG days.

[@RetiredGamers]

I love that there are so many different types of words from all regions of the world in FFXI. Its so cool!

[@thisWinglessAngel]

Gus-tuh-berg Ron-fur (the way everyone was saying it in this video really made me question what i was even calling it) Saruta-baruta Sel-bina Ma-hara Zee-tah Oog-la-peh Sel-tee-us (Selt'teus) Jo-sheem (Joachim) Ro-guh-jean (Rughadjeen) A-gis (aegis though i used to say it more A-gus)

[@RetiredGamers]

Cool! Thanks for sharing how you pronounce the words!

[@Pinto531]

My favorite personal butchering is Sour-Morgue Champagne. Edit: Also - that tie breaker on Zi'tah from Logical, haha.

[@RetiredGamers]

Yeah I think the consensus is Zee'Tah

[@femalien316]

I used to say it paladdin too. Lol

[@RetiredGamers]

Probably because I watched too much Aladdin as a kid! lol

[@IkariLoona]

This stuff is mostly simple - I bet most wouldn't guess how Tzee Xicu is supposed to be pronounced. Then again, I recall being surprised when I first heard Lion and Zeid's names pronounced in an official capacity.

[@RetiredGamers]

Isn't Lion's name just like the king of the jungle? I figured Zeid would be Zeed? I'll include NM's and mob names in the next video!

[@IkariLoona]

@@RetiredGamers Her name indeed sounds like the animal in English, but I used to think it was pronounced in a more French-ish way ("lee-on"), until I heard the voiced version of the end of the Shadow Lord battle that Famitsu collaborated with SE on in 2015 - there the Japanese voice actor pronounced "Zeid" as "Zai-do". While I'm at it, just sent my Horutoto pronounciation sample.

[@elfuzzbox]

Would've loved to hear some attempts at Terpsichore! I think most of the time people have their own ideas of how the place/item names should be pronounced, and even their own rules to keep things consistent - I've always thought that female taru names always have the stress on the first repeat syllable (shan-TO-tto for example, or ku-PI-pi), but before I ever began speaking with others on voice chat way back (either Roger Wilco or TeamSpeak), I always had in my head that Yagudo was "ya-GOO-do", whereas virtually everyone else on voice had it as "YA-gu-do", which is how I say it now. It could be an interesting question (or series of questions) for the developers to ask/answer next FanFest :)

[@RetiredGamers]

I for sure know how to say Terpsichore just because it deals with music. I pronounce Yagudo YAH-GOO-do. Yeah it would be great to ask the devs about pronunciation.

[@dfgonzalez90]

The word that is constantly in debate in our LS is: Aeneas. We've "mostly" agreed that it's not Anus.

[@RetiredGamers]

I'll include that one in a future video! :)

[@zeroryoko1974]

A-knee-us?

[@femalien316]

"mostly" lol

[@kythrathesuntamer9715]

how does anyone know if they don't speak japanese? I somehow doubt when they stole the chinese characters from china when the language was forming that they even used the same words to talk about that particular part of the body.

[@TheDeathFlag]

Top 3 I fight with people about: 1. Reisenjima 2. Abdhaljs-Seal 3. Monberaux

[@RetiredGamers]

I'll add these for a future video! lol

[@aaiwnk4463]

Monberaux : Mon (try to not pronounce the "n" sound), be ("e", close to the "e" in "suddEn"), r (a "clear" R), "aux" = "o" (and not "ow", and do not pronounce the "x"). This is a name that sound french. This is how french people pronounce it. ^^

[@TheDeathFlag]

@@aaiwnk4463 Oh, interesting. I knew someone from Haiti that tried to pronounced it, but we couldn't repeat what he said! xD

[@NudawnLinkshell]

Great Video. Really enjoyed it. I'm notorious for being terrible at pronouncing things.

[@RetiredGamers]

Same here lol! It's all good though!

[@karlwarpy]

I think only Logical got Aegis right... imo, very entertaining tho lol

[@RetiredGamers]

I definitely looked up Aegis after making the video and believe Rua was right on that one but they are very close. I've been calling it Eye-ghis since Final Fantasy 6 during the Super Nintendo days. xD

[@プレサポ松岡裕子]

I enjoyed this Movie.　And surprised how different they are! Maybe, more than 80％ pronunciation are different from Japanese(original) ! Interesting!

[@RetiredGamers]

I would love to have someone saying the pronunciation with a Japanese native tongue. Maybe you can try in the future! Thank you for watching!

[@shaunessysullivan2250]

It's Gust-ah-berg

[@RetiredGamers]

GOOOSE!!! hahaha