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WTH? it's pronounced eeeee-pohs not ep-ohs...

ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
edited December 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
My entire 'suspension of disbelief' has been destoyed.

The eeeepoh researcher cleary is saying 'ep-ohs'.

Winter is RUINED!
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    ddesjardins wrote: »
    My entire 'suspension of disbelief' has been destoyed.

    The eeeepoh researcher cleary is saying 'ep-ohs'.

    Winter is RUINED!
    It might be pronounced that way in Romulan, but....
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  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited December 2013
    Tomato, Tomato.
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  • laheuganlaheugan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    ddesjardins wrote: »
    My entire 'suspension of disbelief' has been destoyed.

    The eeeepoh researcher cleary is saying 'ep-ohs'.

    Winter is RUINED!

    RUINED, yup
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  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I always read it as e-off.
    Don't know why.
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I always pronounced it as food.
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  • tekehdtekehd Member Posts: 2,032 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I'm fairly certain this is not the Earth languages word "epohh" being used here.
  • edwardianededwardianed Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Wait a minute, there are people who pronounce it with a long "E"? It's clearly phonetically "e-p-əʊ" (like 'episode')... why would one think otherwise?

    EDIT: I have just realised that maybe this is one of those American vs British English things. Ignore me :)
  • gstamo01gstamo01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Tomato, Tomato.

    Ah, but it's the little things that add up they drive folks crazy tacofangs. :cool:
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  • reximuzreximuz Member Posts: 1,172 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Tomato, Tomato.

    Let's call the whole thing off!
  • f8explorer#7814 f8explorer
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    edited December 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Tomato, Tomato.

    Don't make me get out the snow blower on you.
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  • perfectcrypticperfectcryptic Member Posts: 266 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    May be it is just me but everytime I hear the VO in the gazebo I hear "ippo" as in hippo.

    For the pie eating contest you should get a special ability when you eat so many. Kind of like throwing snowballs... If you have seen the pie eating contest in Stand By Me, that special power :D
  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited December 2013
    Oh come on guys, this isn't breaking immersion, it's enhancing it. Look at Dr. Pulaski and Data . . . or was it Data?

    People, all over the world, butcher words from other languages. How about Iraq, or Amarillo Texas, or Melbourne Australia, or Anything British ending in a "cester".
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  • minmacdougalminmacdougal Member Posts: 182 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Tacofangs, you're absolutely right. This is a silly argument and I have half a mind right now to start talking like a 2-year-old who just wants their two front teeth for Christmas.
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  • tpalelenatpalelena Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I just say Epohh in the hungarian phonetical version. Ep-oh. Like episode and D'oh! put together!
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  • mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I feel like I should chime in on this, being the resident freaky epohh guy.

    I've always thought of it, and pronounced as E (strong e) p oh (strong o)

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  • tekehdtekehd Member Posts: 2,032 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    leadme2kirk wrote: »
    So they are Ehpohhs and not Epohhs now? Cryptic 'mispelt' it? lol

    Nothing about the word "epohh" necessitates the "e" being long. Take the word "epoch" for or "epoxy" for example. It should also be noted that "epohh" is the Estonian word equivalent of "epoch" in English.
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    leadme2kirk wrote: »
    So they are Ehpohhs and not Epohhs now?
    What's the difference? :P
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  • thlaylierahthlaylierah Member Posts: 2,987 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Well for the pun "P'Ehp'O'Ment" to work it would have to be "Eh' Pohhs."
  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Well, I've always read it 'ee-po'. That's why the P'Ehp'O'Ment pun felt a bit strange to me last winter and why the current pronunciation of the researcher also doesn't ring true.

    But, this is marginal in comparison with the annoying as hell chef shouting over the whole gazebo!
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  • direphoenixdirephoenix Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I thought it was pronounced "squirrel"
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I thought it was pronounced "delicious"
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    What, you guys thought Q was going to make his little wonderland all perfect just for you? He purposely made her mispronounce it just to get a rise out of you. Q just trolled the TRIBBLE out of y'all.
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  • cptjhuntercptjhunter Member Posts: 2,288 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I just stepped in e poo.
  • xingbellxingbell Member Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    ddesjardins wrote: »
    My entire 'suspension of disbelief' has been destoyed.

    !

    For me it was destroyed when I realized I was sitting in my house in front of a computer. Kind of a giveaway there. :D

    The voices repeating every 5 seconds is way more annoying. My wife threatned to rip the speakers off my desk after 5 minutes.

    Peaceful exploration? I have a heavily armed ship and a phaser with a kill setting, how peaceful is that?
  • hawke89305092hawke89305092 Member Posts: 237 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Reading this thread is disturbingly similar to watching Teletubbies...
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  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I thought it was pronounced: vermin?
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  • jrwithjrwith Member Posts: 154 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    what's the difference? one is my name one is not?
  • cptjhuntercptjhunter Member Posts: 2,288 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    hawke89305092 wrote: »
    Reading this thread is disturbingly similar to watching Teletubbies...

    There is no crying on Teletubbies.:P
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    edwardianed wrote: »
    Wait a minute, there are people who pronounce it with a long "E"? It's clearly phonetically "e-p-əʊ" (like 'episode')... why would one think otherwise?

    EDIT: I have just realised that maybe this is one of those American vs British English things. Ignore me :)
    that or it's a matter of a difference between human and Romulan pronunciation. :P (The researcher lady is apparently either a Romulan, or one of Q's fantasies that just happens to look like one.)
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  • rylanadionysisrylanadionysis Member Posts: 3,359 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Oh come on guys, this isn't breaking immersion, it's enhancing it. Look at Dr. Pulaski and Data . . . or was it Data?

    People, all over the world, butcher words from other languages. How about Iraq, or Amarillo Texas, or Melbourne Australia, or Anything British ending in a "cester".

    As someone that spent 4 years in school taking Spanish, whenever someone says am a rill o, it makes me rage inside

    its am a ree yo >=/
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