Zeuhl pronunciation question
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Topic: Zeuhl pronunciation question
Posted By: Mascodagama
Subject: Zeuhl pronunciation question
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 15:57
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An ignorant question!
How is the word 'Zeuhl' pronounced?
Does it rhyme with "drool", or with "hurl", or with "boil"...or maybe it is more like two syllables, say "zee-ewl" or "zer-erl"...?
I'm hoping one of our Kobaian experts can enlighten me. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 16:00
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If Christian Vander pronunces it like it would be pronunced in french, it would be Z-euh-L. I don't know how to explain that pronunciation to english speakers though.  It would be quite similar to the -eu as pronunced in Deustch... -------------  
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 16:00
| I've always thought it rhymes with 'boil'. |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 16:02
I call it the Magma genre anyways ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 16:02
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In one song where they actually sing, "da zeuhl wortz mekanik," it rhymes with the word "dull."
So I'm guessing that it that's proper prononciation.
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 16:05
That's correct - "tsoil" is a close approximation (from an English/American point of view). ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Vompatti wrote:Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 16:37
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^^^ That's not how they pronounce it in the songs... |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 19:05
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Mike is right. it is pronounced the German way, as can be heard on "Magma Live", where Klaus Blasquiz names the band members, or on MDK, where they sing "Da Zeuhl wortz Mekahnik". for English ears it sounds like "tsoil". in general it can be said that if you pronounce their words the way a German would pronounce them you will be right in 95% of the cases, with a bit of Hungarian thrown in for the pronunciation of words like "Köhntarkösz" (the "sz" is pronounced Hungarian) -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 20:23
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I always thought it was the same as the mythical god from "Ghost Busters," pronounced Zool. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 20:42
it rhymes with "boil" there ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 20 2007 at 20:46
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for those who are curious: here the link to a (rudimentary) dictionary for Kobaia: http://myhome.hanafos.com/%7Ejangminsu/magma/MAGMA-KOBAIAN-dictionary.html - http://myhome.hanafos.com/~jangminsu/magma/MAGMA-KOBAIAN-dictionary.html ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: February 21 2007 at 12:22
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Thank you all for your help!
The mysteries of Kobaian are profound indeed. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 22 2007 at 03:23
That's almost how I would say but the S being pronounced halfway in a Z and I's keep the H before the L
Tzoihl ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |