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How do you pronounce "Bullette"

Started by Sacrosanct, December 31, 2013, 10:51:00 AM

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K Peterson

#15
December 31, 2013, 07:47:37 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;719615In addition to the bullette, I always pronounced the Shannara books "Sha-na-ra" until I heard Terry Brooks call it "SHAN-a-ra" (shan as in pan).  Also, I think I pronounced "chimera" as "shi-mer-a" instead of "kai-mer-a" for ages.  I guess that's what happens when you have a 10 year old left to his own interpretation lol
Interesting. I'd always pronounced it Sha-NAR-uh.

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#16
December 31, 2013, 08:04:37 PM
They're the smartest damned monster in all of D&D.

"Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. But I never meet one that can outsmart bullette."
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#17
December 31, 2013, 09:41:42 PM
Despite Kask's intention, I feel stupid pronouncing the -ette ending as if it were -et in "Goulet". Byul-ET (as in "et tu, Brute?")
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January 01, 2014, 02:19:03 AM
Quote from: Benoist;719690That's how Ernie pronounces it, and I always make fun of it, because if you pronounce it in a French way, as its spelling seems to imply, then it's be "bü-lett" with ü as in "mein Führer" and the "ett" as in "Boba Fett".

"Boo-lay" in French is spelled "Boulet", and that means a cannon ball, as opposed to a bullet, which was what Tim was going for when he created the name. A revolver bullet in French is "une balle de revolver".

There's a really weird subset of Americans who think that the French pronunciation of -ette is "ay" ... Which I call "weird" because no one says "cigar-ay" or "vinagray", it's "cigarette" and "vinaigrette".

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#19
January 01, 2014, 10:11:54 AM
Quote from: FaerieGodfather;719784They're the smartest damned monster in all of D&D.

"Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. But I never meet one that can outsmart bullette."

I see what you did there. ;)

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#20
January 01, 2014, 01:23:53 PM
What's to say "Bullette" is a French word, or even an Earth word?

It's Paleo-Coptic, the root language from which the Common Tongue of Greyhawk comes.
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#21
January 01, 2014, 01:38:15 PM
I always pronounce it as bullet. Easy to understand.
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#22
January 01, 2014, 04:40:29 PM
Not at all, preferably.
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Opaopajr

#23
January 01, 2014, 09:20:30 PM
I just follow the 2e MM entry that came with pronunciation, "boo-lay." I knew that it was not correct to French pronunciation, but it's fantasy, so I went with it. Imagine if I got all anal linguistics major on all those aggrieved long vowel dashes and glottal stop apostophes?
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#24
January 01, 2014, 09:22:32 PM Last Edit: January 01, 2014, 09:27:58 PM by Werekoala
Byoo-lette. Always and forever, I don't care what the creator says. :P

Also, for the record, I totally had that set of cheap plastic "dinosaurs" when I was a kid, before discovering D&D, and I loved them. In fact, I think I still have some of them in storage with my actual dinosaur figs.

We should take up the challenge of writing up the rest of the figs from that pack...
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January 01, 2014, 10:07:02 PM
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#26
January 01, 2014, 10:15:27 PM
Kask is an idiot, I certainly wouldn't be following his lead :-). We pronounced it as 'Bullet' and were happy enough. It was 'Lich' that always gave us trouble. I pronounced it as 'like' because in German the word for corpse is Leiche which sounds a bit similar. Other pronounced it as Lich as in 'itch'.

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#27
January 02, 2014, 12:35:19 AM
Quote from: talysman;719837There's a really weird subset of Americans who think that the French pronunciation of -ette is "ay" ... Which I call "weird" because no one says "cigar-ay" or "vinagray", it's "cigarette" and "vinaigrette".

Hehe. Oh, and "une boulette" in French means "a ball", like "une boulette de viande" i.e. "a meat ball". It's not a bullet as in, a projectile from a gun. There's also a colloquial French expression that goes "J'ai fait une boulette", "I made a ball", which basically means "I fucked up big time".

Opaopajr

#28
January 02, 2014, 06:45:54 PM
Now what would you make into a ball by accident that means you fucked up big time?
:confused:

A cake?

A chair?

A land shark?
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Bill

#29
January 02, 2014, 09:29:46 PM
I used Bullettes in my last Dark Sun campaign; they seemed a perfect fit.
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