20 replies to this topic

[MonochromeGoat]

I'm really curious how other people do it, since the stress/accent (or however you call it in english) can either go on the first A (as in Átlas, the world bearer) or the second A (as in geographic atlás).

Personally i use the second one, but most youtubers/streamers i heard say it like in the first example.So how do you people read it?

Edited by MonochromeGoat, 11 February 2015 - 07:09 AM.

[Water Bear]

I say both words the same -- ătʹləs.

Edited by Water Bear, 11 February 2015 - 07:12 AM.

[Sarlic]

Atlai

or Atlas. At-las when you cut it.

Edited by Sarlic, 11 February 2015 - 07:12 AM.

[Cion]

I used to say "holy ****" when I turned the corner and ran into one.

Now with dire wolves and crabs I just say "crap"

[Logal Dazlar]

If there are different pronunciations you would use the one for the "World Bearer" since the mech was named for that Titan.

[MoonUnitBeta]

at liss

I dunno why. I think I'm just too lazy to pronounce the second 'a'.

[Kekkone]

Obsolete

[ob-suh-leet]

[Agent 0 Fortune]

"At Last", sans the second t.

[DaZur]

"Gar-bage"

[Deathlike]

"At-lass"

TBH, they aren't as feared as they used to be these days...

[MonochromeGoat]

I'm a bit surprised that i'm the only one that says a-tlAs so far.

[Lily from animove]

The geographic atlas was named after the world bearer atlas, so how does it come that there are two different prounouncings for this in english? o.O

and i still say fatlas

Edited by Lily from animove, 11 February 2015 - 08:28 AM.

[Kristov Kerensky]

Well, I pronounce it At-lass(\ˈat-ləs\) myself, as that's how I was taught to say it. All the dictionaries I can find, both printed and online, agree with that pronunciation, and that's for both the Titan Atlas as well as the book of maps atlas, since one is named after the other.

[MonochromeGoat]

Kristov Kerensky, on 11 February 2015 - 08:21 AM, said:

Well, I pronounce it At-lass(\ˈat-ləs\) myself, as that's how I was taught to say it. All the dictionaries I can find, both printed and online, agree with that pronunciation, and that's for both the Titan Atlas as well as the book of maps atlas, since one is named after the other.

Well, that explains it.Though i can't figure out how i got much more familiar with the wrong one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edited by MonochromeGoat, 11 February 2015 - 08:30 AM.

[Kristov Kerensky]

MonochromeGoat, on 11 February 2015 - 08:30 AM, said:

Well, that explains it.Though i can't figure out how i got much more familiar with the wrong one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It would be what you were taught was the proper way to say it. I learned to spell 'colour' and 'armour' as opposed to 'color' and 'armor' because I went to a catholic school in the United States run by nuns from England. I still say words like shant, betwixt, and other older English words that aren't used in the United States due to that early language education.

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

Atlas: AT-lus

Atlases: AT-lus-eez

I've been raised to put the emphasis on the first syllable, and my later training in classical languages reinforced that rule, so that's how I say it.

Edited by Levi Porphyrogenitus, 11 February 2015 - 08:35 AM.

[Monkey Lover]

i say it the same way everyone says "atlas shrugged"

[Otto Cannon]

No, no, no - it's spelled Atlas, but it's pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'.

[RedDevil]

At-liss

[LordKnightFandragon]

Idk, At-las, Atlas...At-lass? Atlas.........I didnt think there was another way to say it...