How do you pronounce Firekka?

[DyNaMiX]

Just a quick one.

 

[gryphon]

Fih - wreck - uh

According to the official version from the Standoff team, anyway.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

My take is Fire-eckha - given the importance "Freedom Flight" places on fire in their religion-slash-culture.

 

[Valkyrie]

"Fey-rekha"!???

 

[DyNaMiX]

Hehe it's been nagging at me the whole time I've been reading Freedom Flight.

 

[gryphon]

LOAF - don't You think it would be kind of asinine for a foreign culture to name themselves after the word for "fire" in a language they would not come into contact with for thousands of years?

It's as if aliens claimed Earth should be pronounced "ee-aarth" because ee-aarth means computer or whatever...

 

[Viper61]

LOAF - don't You think it would be kind of asinine for a foreign culture to name themselves after the word for "fire" in a language they would not come into contact with for thousands of years?

I personally pronounce it fur-wreck-uh. . . but grammar rules are on LOAFs side with this one (vowel positioning in conjunction with long and short sounds) .

C-ya

 

[dextorboot]

I've always said "Fire-ka"

 

[Bandit LOAF]

LOAF - don't You think it would be kind of asinine for a foreign culture to name themselves after the word for "fire" in a language they would not come into contact with for thousands of years?

Of course - but that's pretty much par for the course for the SM2-era writing (That said, who's to say that *they* call themselves Firekkans... the Double Helix and the Nephilim were both given names in our language - Firekkan may just be a translation of some sort. Freedom Flight certainly plays up the relationship with fire.)

 

[LeHah]

I mispronounce it like "Fire-Reek-Ans"

 

[XIII]

Since English is not my mother tongue, I've always pronounced fee-wreck (without w)-a (like dad)

 

[ChrisReid]

LOAF - don't You think it would be kind of asinine for a foreign culture to name themselves after the word for "fire" in a language they would not come into contact with for thousands of years?

Yeah, it's just a translation. The Japanese don't call their country "Japan." It's what English speakers call it (same for Germany and everything else).

 

[gryphon]

I agree - Japan, however isn't called Japan because the word Japan means something in English. I'm simply saying that though Firekka might be a humanism, the causality of the name isn't likely lie in human linguistics.

I do however agree that grammatically it should be pronounced "fire". But when has grammar stopped SF

 

[Dundradal]

I think fire definantly plays a major role in the name. Freedom flight's explains quite a bit about firekkan culture.