Sentencing

[u/BlackMetalMagi]

[u/dt5101961]

“Read it! Read it out loud!”

”…Midoriya Izuku was not supposed to feel this way. Not about him.

Not about Bakugo Katsuki, his childhood rival, the explosive, brash, utterly—oh my god, I can’t do this. Just kill me.”

“NO! KEEP GOING!”

[u/I-dont_even → u/dt5101961]

These sound very pronounceable, not a ' or name directly borrowed from a polish cooking recipe in sight.

[u/CompromisedToolchain → u/I-dont_even]

Yeah, try more like:

T’bfer

Li’gniuthoiauez

Chrrkpaeiv’x

Liailei’l’aelal’lė

Èëēęérřïņbœ

Chabdb

[u/malonkey1 → u/CompromisedToolchain]

T’bfer: TUB-fer

Li’gniuthoiauez: lee-gnew-THOY-a-wez

Chrrkpaeiv’x: churrk-PAY-iv-ix (the "rr" optionally trilled)

Liailei’l’aelal’lė: lee-eye-layl-a-AY-lal-lay, which is delightfully musical-sounding in my opinion

Èëēęérřïņbœ: This one's got a lot of tonal vowels, which would definitely be interesting to hear, and it'd be pronounced as if you're being gently but vigorously shaken up and down: "eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-RRING-bee", with the "RR" once again trilled.

Chabdb: and finally, our good old buddy old pal, "CHAB-dib"

[u/CompromisedToolchain → u/malonkey1]

Thanks for working this out. Pretty much what I had in mind.

[u/HottTamales → u/CompromisedToolchain]

bless you

[u/UgglyCasanova → u/I-dont_even]

These are characters from an anime, I think the joke here was more about the author writing cringe erotic fan fiction (and feeling cringe reading the words out loud) than it is about the names

[u/dt5101961 → u/I-dont_even]

Reading a Japanese name in English always sounds surreal to me.

[u/El_Hombre_Macabro → u/I-dont_even]

If you have a diacritical symbol that no one else uses on a consonant that shouldn't have different ways of being pronounced, it's probably Polish or some Slavic language.

[u/winged_owl → u/dt5101961]

Those are amateur names! Try two from R.A. Salvator: House Baenre, and my man Drizzt.

[u/Woahhdude24]

Ah, yes, literomancy many a wizard have been punished for doing that type of magic wrong.

[u/batboy11227]

I once met a warlock who's patron was referred to as "the unspeakable one" when I asked if his name was cursed he explained that it was just so long it would take an entire day to say if you were practiced at it

[u/Practical-Error-9125]

I mean, that's a win, Ig? Now, people will know how to pronounce the names

[u/Fluffy_shadow_5025]

[u/icastuncertainty → u/Fluffy_shadow_5025]

Lloyd (water) Frontera in the wild

[u/Fluffy_shadow_5025 → u/icastuncertainty]

There is simply no one who is as good at expressing schadenfreude as he is.

[u/crowngryphon17]

Shapoopie winklesyein the 3rd disaggrees

[u/ExtensionInformal911]

become a warlock so the great old ones will teach you to pronouce i'glth'iq'm'qotl'laq.

[u/imdefinitelywong → u/ExtensionInformal911]

Why ask the old ones to teach you how to pronounce their names when all you need a mouthful of spaghetti?

[u/Casper_Von_Ghoul]

Skill issue.

[u/Dvel27]

Just go the Gloryhammer method and name everything after places in Scotland.

[u/Twice_the_Magic]

[u/malonkey1]

No such thing as an unpronounceable name, just either a lexicographically incompetent writer or a racist reader or both.

[u/Sonifri → u/malonkey1]

what about that time when prince literally changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol? like, it was intentionally a 'name' that couldn't be spoken.

this is a common problem for interacting with telepathic species.

[u/malonkey1 → u/Sonifri]

Well now we're getting into arguments over what even constitutes a "name" and that's for philosophers, not wizards, to debate.

[u/Immaterial_Ocean]

Just use Victor Bevine, lol.

[u/Last-Scarcity-3896]

Borshkrayozon Excavaginator, attack!

[u/Sharp_Philosopher_97]

This deserves a crosspost to:

r/writingcirclejerk

[u/Derk_Mage]

Actually I’d quite enjoy doing this.

The DEBAUCHEROUS RenolAHrd!

[u/winged_owl]

Haha! Got em.