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[POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 18 Apr 2017, 15:25
by Tirifto
Hello all!
While translating some mobs' names, I realized that I'm not sure how “mouboo” should be pronounced. Therefore I want to ask you: how do
you pronounce “mouboo?” Please send in your pronunciation, and feel free to attach
audio recordings if you wish!
EDIT: Removed edit by gumi because I don't want non-free software recommendations in my post.
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 18 Apr 2017, 15:27
by gumi
definitely moo-boo
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 18 Apr 2017, 19:57
by bcs86
無不
"none bad".
mu bu
moh-bou = viscous lad, knucklehead.
It is a Tritan word so it would be labial as in muh-buh which means something like "tatanka" but less important to them.
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 18 Apr 2017, 20:53
by Pawneeboy
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 18 Apr 2017, 21:52
by Reid
In french I pronounce it moubou.
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 19 Apr 2017, 10:32
by Amarynthus
I have no particular reasoning to support it, but it's always been different from any of those option, perhaps similar to bcs86's second option: 2 syllables, the first like the (US) slang abbreviated "more" as mo' (or like the name of one of the three stooges) with the second syllable like what you would say when you jumped out to surprise someone "boo" with a long o.
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 19 Apr 2017, 13:53
by gumi
[13:43] Lil Snarfles: Gumi that's not even a question.
[13:43] Lil Snarfles: it's without a shadow of a doubt moo-boo
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 19 Apr 2017, 20:00
by WildX
gumi wrote:[13:43] Lil Snarfles: Gumi that's not even a question.
[13:43] Lil Snarfles: it's without a shadow of a doubt moo-boo
This. Heretics shall fall.
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 20 Apr 2017, 23:44
by Saulc
lot of frnech player spell that <mo bou- xd
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 21 Apr 2017, 01:53
by bcs86
It gets pronounced the English way for those who play the game in English which is moo (moo, as in cow) and boo (boo, as in surprise).
The question is unclear, but you should translate it according to what your language community would most likely want to use.
It can have a different name to a different locality as happens in games developed in Japan for export to other regions.
Your locality might not even have "m" sounds and use something like "Qua-Quu". Or name it something related to the word play that your community would know.
BUT, HOWEVER, for just sound-to-sound equivalency use Moo-Boo to avoid being bombed by the US.
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 22 Apr 2017, 07:31
by MAF-Apane
Reid wrote:In french I pronounce it moubou.
In French for me it is Mowboo
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 22 Apr 2017, 10:49
by Avenn
I pronounce it otherwise.
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 22 Apr 2017, 20:12
by SudoPlatypus
Moo-boo. Because it sounds the cutest to me.
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 18:08
by Rill
gumi wrote:[13:43] Lil Snarfles: Gumi that's not even a question.
[13:43] Lil Snarfles: it's without a shadow of a doubt moo-boo
Lil Snarfles knows best. After all, he is the mouboo whisperer.
https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtop ... 00#p152100
Qwerty Dragon wrote: Moo-boo. Because it sounds the cutest to me.
Me, too! 
Re: [POLL] How to pronounce “mouboo?”
Posted: 27 Sep 2017, 20:18
by Speiros
I thought it was more Mao-boo personally, but cutting through the red tape...
We could always do what certain stupid translators of holy writings do, and say "Oh, because we can't agree on how it was originally pronounced, we won't pronounce it at all", and then we could remove it and call it "LORD".
Anyone up for chopping some LORD's?
