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Laek2007 12-23-2007 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeffyy (Post 1364998)
Grail in german is spelt Gral. Which is probably why Stefan calls this game graal, since germans cant say Grail. xD

I w1n.

Who gives a crap about Germany.

In Swedish is Graal = Grail

In french is Graal = Grail

I also say "Grawl". But I only do this because I pronounce it the way I do in Swedish. The actual meaning of the word is Grail in Swedish aswell. So if I want to pronounce it in english I would say Grail. Not Graal. Because Graal is not a word in the english vocabulary.

The end. Thank you.

Laek2007 12-23-2007 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Ziro_of_the_Turks (Post 1364643)
"My name is pronounced like this: Kamuii."
"Dustari is pronounced Dustari."
"It's Graal. Not Grail..."

Do you call your mom "mamma"? Probably not. Because you don't speak my language.

Then why the hell should you pronounce Graal as Grawl. If your not speaking french or any other language. When it obviously means GRAIL. In english.

ViperZakuto 12-23-2007 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Laek2007 (Post 1365231)
Do you call your mom "mamma"? Probably not. Because you don't speak my language.

Then why the hell should you pronounce Graal as Grawl. If your not speaking french or any other language. When it obviously means GRAIL. In english.

because it just sounds better. kind of like

tomato - to-mah-toe
potato - po-tah-toe

Darlene159 12-23-2007 06:47 PM

I have always pronounced it "Grawl" because that is what it looked like it was pronounced when I first saw it.
Habit will make me continue to say it that way, even if it is wrong, because it wouldn't sound right any other way. :)

xAzerothx 12-23-2007 07:27 PM

I wouldn't say let's play Graal to anyone in real life so I don't care how you say it.

ViperZakuto 12-23-2007 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by xAzerothx (Post 1365304)
I wouldn't say let's play Graal to anyone in real life so I don't care how you say it.

i sure do... got to get as many people on here as possible =O

Ziro_of_the_Turks 12-28-2007 05:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laek2007 (Post 1365231)
Do you call your mom "mamma"? Probably not. Because you don't speak my language.

Then why the hell should you pronounce Graal as Grawl. If your not speaking french or any other language. When it obviously means GRAIL. In english.


It's a name of something. Names aren't supposed to be translated. Though often they have been in the past... in our modern-era people are generally more respectful to diversity and accept a name in it's original language to preserve its essence. I can think of some games that are OFFICIALLY translated to an english name for english-speaking players.
Graal offers NO official translated name. Nowhere on the website will you see it officially called "Grail".

I'll pronounce "Grail" as "Grail". But I'll pronounce "Graal" as "Graal" (grawl).
I don't know what your language is, but I'm speaking English.

Also, you were responding to a post where I was simply showing someone else's words. Notice the quotation marks. MY name isn't Kamuii.

gemini2 12-28-2007 05:09 AM

I personally pronounce it differently than either of that :O
'Graal' with the a's sounding like the 'a's in '-ack'
It sounds really weird to me if I say it any other way, seeing as I've always said it as 'Graal'. Makes no sense whatsoever but it sounds fine to me ;)

This is my favourite definition of it though, lol:

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Originally Posted by Dictionary (Post 1366320)
GRAAL
General Recursive Applicative and Algorithmic Language. FP with polyadic combinators. "Graal: A Functional Programming System with Uncurryfied Combinators and its Reduction Machine", P. Bellot in ESOP 86, G. Goos ed, LNCS 213, Springer 1986.


James 12-28-2007 06:32 AM

Just ask Microsoft Sam.

xAzerothx 12-28-2007 06:57 AM

When I sat Graal in my head because I'm a loser I say it like Grrrr-all.

BigBear3 12-28-2007 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by xAzerothx (Post 1366337)
When I sat Graal in my head because I'm a loser I say it like Grrrr-all.

Tony The Tiger?

projectigi 12-28-2007 12:35 PM

uh, germans can actually say "grail" too o.ô

zephirot 12-28-2007 02:53 PM

Graal.

ChrizP2P 12-28-2007 03:00 PM

Always said it like Grahl.. or Groal etc

Horrified 12-28-2007 04:45 PM

I know it's Grail, but I call it Grahl.


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