How do YOU pronounce this?

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ekolis · #1 Post by **ekolis** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:03 am

Just curious... how do you pronounce those greater versions of regular items that do more, such as *Identify* and *Slay Demon*?

edit: I pronounce it "star-identify"

christopher · #2 Post by **christopher** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:53 am

I just pronouce it like this: *identify*

Seriously though I just emphasise the whole word, especially the beginning I.

Maylith · #3 Post by **Maylith** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:33 am

Um... I've never said it out loud, come to think of it. Shouting it out as a heraldic "IDENTIFY!" seems a little overkill. I might call it major identify or true identify, I guess. Or, as Christopher has already mentioned, "*Identify*".

Never really thought about it before, to be honest. A lot of the facets of this game I just internalize as for granted. After all, if you're using ASCII mode as I do, you always rub your hands together with glee when you see a "M" wandering about south of Bree. (Either that or you run for your life....

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Naurgaldin · #4 Post by **Naurgaldin** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:17 am

Hi,

I say, I say

"I need to eye-dee eye-dee that artifact."

Cheers,
Naurgaldin

Nerdanel · #5 Post by **Nerdanel** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:02 am

I don't pronounce it either. I store it in my head in a written form. It has never came up in any discussion so far.

Massimiliano Marangio · Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:35 am

I don't speak it loud, either, and write *ID* or *Identify*.

Maylith · #7 Post by **Maylith** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:00 pm

Having said that I don't really pronounce *Identify*, I've thought about it a bit, and have to confess that when I see a *Defender* weapon, I do usually think, de-FEND-er.....

bango · #8 Post by **bango** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:04 pm

Not sure why, I always call it "high identify", possibly the extra i-i-i sounds make it appealing.

Lionors · #9 Post by **Lionors** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:06 pm

Me and Fael have always called it 'super identify'

zasvid · #10 Post by **zasvid** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:11 pm

I never thought about it, but from now on I will always think of *ID* as Iiii-DENT-ify in UT manner - gotta love those announcements sounding in my head : Iii-DENT-ify, Slaaay DE-mon and, in case of genocide mo-mo-mo-MONSTER kill

Drusilla · #11 Post by **Drusilla** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:37 am

What Nerdanel and MM said; I don't generally speak out loud of ToME details. If at some point I should really really have to pronounce it, I'd probably do the same thing I do with other asterisk-surrounded text: make the asterisks with my hands while saying "identify".

feathin · #12 Post by **feathin** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:41 am

Drusilla wrote:make the asterisks with my hands while saying "identify".

I think I actually did that one time while teaching a friend how to play ToME.

Makkoan · #13 Post by **Makkoan** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:04 am

I talk with friends about tome. We say:
"Star-Star-Identify"

Burb Lulls · #14 Post by **Burb Lulls** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:18 am

I've always thought of *identify* as 'identifnyah', but what I actually say more is *slay foo* things as 'suh-huh-lay foo'!

This is my 100th post. Malto bueno

Zombie Yeek · #15 Post by **Zombie Yeek** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:06 pm

In person, I use a flick of the fingers to denote asterisks. On the phone, I pause slightly before the word.

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