From: justisaur@yahoo.com   
      
   On 11/24/2025 7:51 PM, Zaghadka wrote:   
   > On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:24:44 -0800, Justisaur    
   > wrote:   
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   >> Bulette - "La'and-sha'ark." "Michael Boobley" or "Bull-et" are also   
   >> acceptable.   
   >>   
   > I always called them a bull-EHT; the stress is on the last syllable.   
   >   
   >> Svirfneblin - "Sven-*'EFFIN'*-bling" or "SMURF-Nebb-Lynn." "Smurf" for   
   >> short.   
   >>   
   > Yeah. Good luck with that. "Deep gnomes." That's what they're called.   
   > Someone was winding the players up that day.   
   >   
   > They all read Nietzsche.   
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   >   
   >> Asimar - "Ahss-Ihmar" all short vowels. No comment.   
   >>   
   > My name is ahs-weep-pay! (Sp: Asswipe)   
   >   
   >> Yuan-Ti - "WantTea"   
   >>   
   > Juan Ti-hote.   
   >   
   >> Catoblepas - "Cammel-toe-*BLEEP*-us"   
   >>   
   > This is commonly just simply referred to as Gygax's bullshit monster. No   
   > death save for its death stare? What the hell is that?!   
   >   
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   > My group just got into an extended discussion on how to pronounce   
   > Erinyes. One of the players had even studied ancient Greek. I didn't have   
   > the heart to tell them all it's plural, and what we actually encountered   
   > was a single Erinye.   
   >   
   > Many were surprised that there is a pronunciation in unabridged English   
   > dictionaries.   
   >   
   > Ancient Greek guy and I came to the conclusion that the beginning sounds   
   > like heur, as in "heuristic." So heur-ihn-ee-ihs and heur-ihn-yuh. The   
   > Greek lettering indicated a leading "H" aspirate, but huhyur-in-yee-ees   
   > sounded like Beavis and Butthead.   
   >   
   > Frankly, I wanted to start calling her "urine fleas" or "ear in knees."   
   >   
      
   Urine fleas sounds about right.   
      
   I remember reading somewhere it was like Aaron-Ye The plural being   
   Aaron-Ye's   
      
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