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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2010, 01:41:23 AM »
I have always pronounced it as Dray-cun

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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2010, 01:30:57 PM »
Dray-con
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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2010, 02:39:49 PM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2010, 07:55:37 PM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #19 on: January 21, 2010, 08:56:33 PM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #20 on: January 21, 2010, 11:46:22 PM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2010, 11:52:01 PM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #22 on: January 22, 2010, 12:03:56 AM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #23 on: January 22, 2010, 12:48:01 AM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #24 on: January 22, 2010, 02:09:29 AM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #25 on: January 22, 2010, 11:47:02 AM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #26 on: January 23, 2010, 01:12:43 PM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #27 on: January 24, 2010, 12:50:01 PM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #28 on: January 25, 2010, 12:14:25 PM »
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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Re: dracon pronounciation
« Reply #29 on: January 30, 2010, 03:44:56 PM »
Dray-con
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