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[lashropa]

Kee-aff

or

Kwee-aff

You decide. I'm for "Key".

[Hayden]

"Kwee-aff"

[Ravn]

Kway-if

[lashropa]

Ugh. I don't like where this is going...

[Claw55]

"Kwee-aff"

[Haakon Valravn]

Ki-aff. Seems to be how it's pronounced the few times I've heard it spoken in a reasonably canon setting.

[Belial]

"Kwee-aff"

The "qui" seems to be derived from the Latin interrogative. "Aff" is short for "affrmative." Sounds obvious but I figured a little breakdown wouldn't hurt.

[Peace Possum]

Personally I think it's kwee-aff, but pronunciations in Mech3 ranged from "kwee-aff" to "kwee-off", though "Aff" was always pronounced phonetically.
"Kee-aff" is stupid, the word is based off of "aff" as in "affirmative" and the "qui" is a corruption of the beginning of "query", which itself is kin with "question". Neither of those are pronounced "kee", but the "que" in "query" sounds quite close to how all official recordings of "quiaff" are pronounced. The "aff" should never be "off" in my opinion, though.

[Ravn]

So your vote is kwee-aff.

Edited by Ravn, 29 April 2012 - 09:44 PM.

[Werewolf Fetladral]

qwee-ph

[Haakon Valravn]

Werewolf Fetladral, on 29 April 2012 - 09:47 PM, said:

qwee-ph

As in, "You would like to quaff a beer, quiaff"?

[HeartoftheJaguar]

In Mechwarrior 2 it was kee-aff

Mechwarrior 3 - kwee-aff, kwa-neg

I think the later sounds better.

[Reno Blade]

here is some info from the german wording
Frapos [Fra-pos] and Franeg [Fra-neg]
Coming from the word Frage = Question and Positive/Negative.
The first few times i heard the MW3 sound (i got english version) i never could understood what they were talking, cause i didnt know they used quiaff

[Werewolf Fetladral]

Haakon Valravn, on 29 April 2012 - 09:51 PM, said:

As in, "You would like to quaff a beer, quiaff"?

no as in a promiscuous woman...

[Naughtyboy]

quee--aff in shorting question affermative.. as its the end of a question asked and the questioner expects that the person asked agrees to whats asked..i think.. quiaff

guess it depends from whatever back ground someone has..german english french spanish nordic russian or asian.

Edited by Naughtyboy, 29 April 2012 - 10:09 PM.

[Seth]

Kwee-aff

The origin of the word comes from Andery Kerensky who shortend the term "query affirmative?" to quiaff. Also:

quirk = kwerk
quick = kwick
quiet = kwiet
quintuplets = kwintuplets
quit = kwit

So, I think that builds a pretty solid case for "kwee-aff".

[Thorn Hallis]

I'll pronounce it the german way: "Frapos".

[CoffiNail]

S. Col CoffiNail ‏ @TaylimTseng
@catalystgamelab Quiaff, pronounced kwee-aff or key-aff, or other?


CatalystGameLab ‏ @catalystgamelab
@TaylimTseng kwee-aff rnb


S. Col CoffiNail ‏ @TaylimTseng
@catalystgamelab Thanks kindly Always wondered, you hear kwee-aff often, but MW2 / GBL put it as key-aff

There we have it, kwee-aff.

Thanks RNB

/thread

[Wyzak]

Kwee-off or kwee-ave

[CoffiNail]

Randall Bills says Kwee-Aff, so that means it is kwee-aff