Re: [RE][gundam] AEUG pronunciation Re: Dynasty Warriors Gundam

[Joseph Riggs]

You're right that there are no hard and fast rules for acronyms.  Look hard enough, and I'm sure you could find one that didn't have any vowels, and yet people insisted on pronouncing (even though such an action is technically illegal in English).  As I said, "ae-youg" just sounds awkward to my ear.   I haven't played much with AEUG members, so I can't say if anyone spells it out or not.  I haven't heard a single reference to the EFSF acronym.  Instead, anytime the Federation comes up, characters in the game seem to prefer saying the entire name (though I don't remember off-hand if the space force is ever specifically mentioned as the "Space Force" within the game).   For some reason, this discussion suddenly brought to mind the Kevin Bacon film, "The Air Up There" (I believe that was the name of it), where the African natives in the film constantly referred to the "Nu-ba".   (NBA)     junior ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][gundam] AEUG pronunciation Re: Dynasty Warriors Gundam Date : Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:41:52 -0400 From : "Dr. Core" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : list@gundam.com Joseph Riggs wrote: > I think the main thing is that for most English speakers, a "word" consisting largely of > vowels doesn't sound quite right. "NATO" works because each syllable is composed of Safe to say, there isn't a set of strong rules to decide whether an acronym is commonly pronounced as an English word. E.g. NSERC is pronounced as a word ("EN-surk") but USA is spelled-out rather than pronounced ("you-sah"). In some areas (MRI) practitioners bent over backward to engineer full names to make a cool acronyms. Furthermore, neither Aeug nor A.E.U.G. rolls off the tongue easily. So there isn't a strong set of rules nor a clear favorite based on which one sounds more natural. So going back to the Japanese dialog is a reasonable approach. I am curious, in the entire game (or other games for that matter) if no one ever spell out the acronym verbally or say the full name verbally. Especially, they do spell out E.F.S.F verbally right? Also, I still can't get over the fact that the Japanese wiki article for "エゥーゴ" lists four versions of the full name. Applying online translation tool suggests that "Anti Earth Union Group" was found in an older novelization and "Anti Earth United Government" is found in references since 1998. (incidentally Gundam Official website uses "Anti Earth Union Group") I will take a look at materials at my disposal (if I remember): MS Encyclopedia 98... ehh... that's it, I never brought any MG/PG kits from Zeta... Hmmm.... -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II list@gundam.com Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list

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