Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: OT: How do you pronounce your username? hehe

byAnton opened this issue on Jul 26, 2005 ยท 142 posts


kyraia posted Wed, 27 July 2005 at 1:49 AM

BTW I thought I made the name Daio up, not knowing there it was actually a MAN's name in Japan ( I'm female and I have no idea how they pronounce Daio in Japan).

Daioh means great king in japanese. (I don't know if they really use this as a name, except in animes).

And about my username: it comes from a minor character in an anime called El Hazard. Animes are japanese but I don't know if Kyraia had the same name in the original. I only know the german version.
In German the pronunciation is very easy. The "y" is generally pronounced as " (u-Umlaut), and to speak with Francoise (sorry, there is no cedille on my keyboard :-)
but I know no English speaking person who is able to pronounce this correctly - although it is very easy once you realize that the pronounciation has nothing to do with the "u" where it comes from, but is quite close to "i" (or "ee" like in cheese).
So, the pronunciation is something like Krah-yah.

Kyraia actually is a female character, but in reality I am ... an alien