Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Acalio-Laron-Jaham on January 20, 2010, 08:38:02 PM
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dont know if this has been asked or told yet, but was just wondering how is it correctly pronounced?
is it 'dra-coon' rhyming with 'dragoon' and 'balloon' or simply 'dra-con' with the 'con' as in 'con-vict'?
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I always pronounced it "dray-cun" phonetically.
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drah-cahn.
similar to dragon.
i've heard dray-cahn, but never dray-coon before.
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From the Animorphs Alliance Secret Handbook (hehe) its DRAY-kon
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Ooh, there's an official answer! Cool, Duff!
I pronounce it DRAY-kun
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i say it the way duff put
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want me to add a poll to this thread with some of the more common pronunciations?
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Sure goom, if you want! :)
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Dracon beam. I pronounce it Dray-con, con as in reCON
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merged threads.
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haha ive always pronounced it as 'drak-coon'
i think i got it from the animorphs tv show cuz i started reading and watching it around the same time ^^
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lol I always love these posts b/c I feel like Ax trying out all the different pronunciations
DRAY-cun. Cun. Con. Drah-cahn. DRACON! BUNZAH
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haha ive always pronounced it as 'drak-coon'
i think i got it from the animorphs tv show cuz i started reading and watching it around the same time ^^
I don't remember the show ever mentioning what those FLASHLIGHTS were called ::)
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yea i was racking my brain to remember if they ever said dracon beam, couldnt remember it either
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yeah im pretty certain that they've mentioned it at least once in the early episodes.......i think it was the one where they were in the yeerk pool complex throwing balloons filled with oatmeal??
but then again, maybe not.
oh well, its been since 1999 that ive watched it. not planning to watch it again anytime soon ^^
LOL at the dracon beams being flashlights on the show though.....wth was with that? xD and it shot out sparks too
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I have always pronounced it as Dray-cun
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Dray-con
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for me it's dray (like gray) and con (like connect) also when it's said fast con can sound a bit like kin
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I always pronounced it dray-kon even before the whole official thing. That's just the way it looks to me.
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hmm... I can't remember too well, but I think I used to say drah-con, but for some reason or other, I later changed to dray-con... I don't even know why. I don't remember reading any official pronunciation...
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From the Animorphs Alliance Secret Handbook (hehe) its DRAY-kon
The what?
I always pronounced it "drah-kun." I think they did mention it at some point in the TV show. Every time I talk about Animorhs and mention Dracon beams, my non-Animorph fan friend is always like "you mean those flashlights?"
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From the Animorphs Alliance Secret Handbook (hehe) its DRAY-kon
The what?
Its this little handbook that has info on all the animorphs, a glossary of technology, pronunciation of the made up words, crosswords, fill in the blanks, word scrambles, and a flip book. Yea, pretty sweet
It comes with this fan club thing you could subscribe to when the books first came out that got you that, some fan club id card, book ends, bookmarks, i forget what else
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Oh, the Sanctuary. i started reading the book about 3 years after the series ended. But man, that book sounds awesome!
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Every time I talk about Animorhs and mention Dracon beams, my non-Animorph fan friend is always like "you mean those flashlights?"
Damn flashlight Dracons! ::)
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I always pronounced it dray-kon even before the whole official thing. That's just the way it looks to me.
looking back on it, i think i alternated. i pronounced it 'drah-con' in my head but said 'dray-con' aloud.
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dra-kon like dragon, which incidently is the word i used for reference for how to pronounce. then again, i also always pronounce tobias as tobee-as, which actually seemed to be supported with Toby, wouldnt it have been Tobai if it was toe-bye-as?
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I used to pronounce it drah-kun, but I'll start calling it dray-con if that's 'correct'. On a similar note, I used to pronounce Tobias toe-bee-us, but later changed to toe-bye-us when I found out it was correct.
Also, how do you pronounce Aximili? Ax-ih-mil-ee, Ax-zim-ih-lie or something else? What's the official pronunciation?
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yea i always pronounced aximili the first way but I dont know the "official" pronunciation
That animorphs alliance book has a few other pronunciations for reference:
Andalite (AND-a-light)
aristh (R-iss-the)
Chee (CHAY)
Dracon Beam (DRAY-kon BEEM)
Ellimists (EEL-lim-ists)
estreen (ES-treen)
Hork-Bajir (HORK-buh-JEER)
Kandrona (Kan-DRO-nuh)
Skrit Na (SCREET-nah)
Taxxon (TAX-on)
Varnax (VAHR-nacks)
Veleek (veh-LEEK)
Visser (VIH-sir)
Its weird that they say EllimistS and the definition is "A nearly omnipotent race about which little is known. Can travel across space and time-but have no known form or natural body." So maybe they hadn't fully conceptualized the ellimist's backstory yet or maybe KA just didnt work very closely with whoever made the handbook.
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my pronounciations
Andalite (anda LIGHT)
aristh (arish)
Chee (chee)
Dracon Beam (drakon beem)
Ellimists (eh-li-mist)
estreen (ES-treen)
Hork-Bajir (hork-ba - zhar) dont know why, but it sounded more right to me
Kandrona (Kan-DRO-nuh)
Skrit Na (skirit-nah) also not as written, but thats the way it always sounded in my head
Taxxon (TAX-on)
Varnax- the what now?
Veleek (veh-LEEK)
Visser vye (as in bye) - sir
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Dray-con