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    I believe the numbers are more in favor of Male-to-Female Transsexuals, but they're still quite even. From what I Googled in that past five minutes, it's roughly a 55% in favor of men to women.
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    I guess it would be a very personal insult amongst someone that once had a close bond. For example two friends that had a falling out or a parent and a child.
    That'd probably work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pffh View Post
    Right hmm how to break it down. The ship was huge as in tens of thousands of survivors and most of them were prisoners so there really wasn't any shortage of genetic material.

    The problem is that the prisoners would have been forcefully inseminated (by technological mumbo jumbo from the medical station, I'm not including direct rape in this). That's the origin of the sexism in this society and why the lowest class (inmates) are seen as nothing more then tools to an end.

    Oh and this is a fairly high tech society so robots and other automatic weapons are what do/did most of the policing.
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    You still run into problems there, as if the population is that high to start with, while, yes, one would need to start reproduction, one doesn't want that much of a large perpetual underclass of breeder-slaves, one wants people who can contribute more than just breeding and so you'd either need a larger slave caste including male workers or you'd need to acknowledge that the breeder-slave caste would by necessity have to be phased out once you had enough people to actually have a society.

    And if they're mechanized then they have no incentive to keep slaves alive for the purpose of breeding alone and there's no task that you'd want an exclusively female population for aside from breeding but you don't need that high of a population if you have the resources and tech to do robo-cops.

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    To put a long story short, this is a rather problematic view to take on your part and I must admit, seems like a laughably vanishingly small portion of people.
    It's actually the reason I left my school's LGBT club. I didn't even ask them to add an "A", I was so disgusted. So many of those kids I'd seen in other parts of the school, actively dating people of the opposite gender, yet claiming they were "gay". It gets worse, because of the people in that room, the MtF all gave pretty much the same reason for why they were MtF. Because they thought that women were attractive, not because they felt they weren't in the right body.

    I did not ask "why are you trans?", I asked "what are previous experiences with your gender orientation/sexuality?" I joined as gender ambiguous (androgyny?), and was dismissed as "not really LGBT".

    Oh, and only two people in that room were actually gay. The rest claimed to be "bi", because of that's what I've heard from every girl at my school. "I'm bi!" (they'll announce it willy nilly, like nobody cares, in a room full of intolerant bullies). I really hate to look like such an intolerant *******, but I can't put my anger into words. My school's LGBT club is full of phonies.
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    Okay, I understand the situation better (therefore my question WAS kinda stupid). However...


    Quote Originally Posted by pffh View Post
    The problem is that the prisoners would have been forcefully inseminated (by technological mumbo jumbo from the medical station, I'm not including direct rape in this).
    Hope you're aware this is rape.
    Just not traditional rape.


    And I also second Coidzor.
    I can see a misogynist FtM, they certainly exist (after all, my father was Jewish and antisemitic!). I don't really see how one would be allowed with such a job in a progressive society. And I have a really hard time understanding how we could have that weird blend of rampant misogyny and acceptance of trans* people. Plus all the rest.

    EDIT: last thing, but maybe it's just me:
    Honestly, I don't like "repopulation plots" very much. It's almost always considered as the only option. No, you could also decide that it's not worth building a whole society from scratch, and that living your life 'till the end, having children only if you want it, is enough.
    When you decide that repopulating a place is the best solution, unless the whole population somehow agrees on all the specifics, you are going to run into grave issues of sexism, respect of one's body, and others. And I don't like reading these kinds of stories, because I find there's enough of it in real life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Musashi View Post
    I don't really see how one would be allowed with such a job in a progressive society.
    Hardly progressive, they had a segregated military and counted FtMs as women.

    Quote Originally Posted by pffh View Post
    I never thought of the captain as a sexist. More along the lines he did what he believed to be necessary for a society to survive and then stuff progresses over the centuries to something completely different and possibly more extreme than what it started as.
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    Then you're suffering from a lack of scale if you have a population of tens of thousands of people to start with and you decide to 1. keep a term that would be outdated and stupid even within the first generation let alone the children of that rape by artificial inseminator. Because even if they're not physically raping them personally, they're still forcing them to get pregnant against their will, so it's close enough for most purposes.

    The captain has to be sexist for setting up such a society in the first place. Otherwise the most objectionable thing they'd do would incentivize that 10s of thousands of people to willingly reproduce in exchange for commutation of their sentence in favor of letting them be productive members of society. Certainly it's sexist of him to decide that not only are the vast majority of women nothing but breeding slaves, their children, but only the female children, are also to suffer that ignomious and unjust fate.

    Further, the fact that he is actually setting up a system that forbids female children from joining the hierarchy of what was a primarily female military structure means he also must be sexist by necessity as well.


    Quote Originally Posted by Triscuitable View Post
    I did not ask "why are you trans?", I asked "what are previous experiences with your gender orientation/sexuality?" I joined as gender ambiguous (androgyny?), and was dismissed as "not really LGBT".
    People treat one another wrong. Yes. There are people who lie or are confused. Yes. It is quite another thing to go from a bad experience to asserting, in an LGBTA thread that is not a huge glaring pack of phonies no less, that lots(which can easily be taken to mean most and anything more than a vanishingly small number of the misinformed is kind offensive anyway) of transwomen only want to transition because they think that women are hot.

    Certainly there's a fair amount of testimony I've heard about preferring the aesthetics of female bodies amongst transwomen, but that just stands to reason given their nature.

    Quote Originally Posted by Triscuitable View Post
    Oh, and only two people in that room were actually gay. The rest claimed to be "bi", because of that's what I've heard from every girl at my school.
    Well, I imagine that would be a rather handy explanation as to why they were capable of having relationships with the opposite sex then for you to watch and get annoyed by, eh?

    Quote Originally Posted by Triscuitable View Post
    "I'm bi!" (they'll announce it willy nilly, like nobody cares, in a room full of intolerant bullies).
    It's hardly any individual bisexual girl's fault that bisexuality in women is viewed in a more acceptable or even positive light by society at large.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Triscuitable View Post
    Also, what do you gals (and guys, I'm a minority here) think about "phases" in sexuality? I hate the term, and I believe it's just used as an excuse for "I want to be out of the norm!" I think that there are a lot of MtFs that are just guys who want to be girls because "hurka-durka women are hot" (I believe that was word for word from some buffoon I asked at my school).
    Speaking as someone who has phases in gender identity, I'm pretty damn certain it's possible to have fluid sexuality. In fact, I seem to recall Golentan saying he experiences exactly that.
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    You still run into problems there, as if the population is that high to start with, while, yes, one would need to start reproduction, one doesn't want that much of a large perpetual underclass of breeder-slaves, one wants people who can contribute more than just breeding and so you'd either need a larger slave caste including male workers or you'd need to acknowledge that the breeder-slave caste would by necessity have to be phased out once you had enough people to actually have a society.

    And if they're mechanized then they have no incentive to keep slaves alive for the purpose of breeding alone and there's no task that you'd want an exclusively female population for aside from breeding but you don't need that high of a population if you have the resources and tech to do robo-cops.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Musashi View Post
    Okay, I understand the situation better (therefore my question WAS kinda stupid). However...



    Hope you're aware this is rape.
    Just not traditional rape.
    Yes and that is also why I'm not going into it at all in the story and that is something that just happened in the past.

    And I also second Coidzor.
    I can see a misogynist FtM, they certainly exist (after all, my father was Jewish and antisemitic!). I don't really see how one would be allowed with such a job in a progressive society. And I have a really hard time understanding how we could have that weird blend of rampant misogyny and acceptance of trans* people. Plus all the rest.
    Corruption still happens. Family ties, money etc could all buy someone a good position.

    EDIT: last thing, but maybe it's just me:
    Honestly, I don't like "repopulation plots" very much. It's almost always considered as the only option. No, you could also decide that it's not worth building a whole society from scratch, and that living your life 'till the end, having children only if you want it, is enough.
    When you decide that repopulating a place is the best solution, unless the whole population somehow agrees on all the specifics, you are going to run into grave issues of sexism, respect of one's body, and others. And I don't like reading these kinds of stories, because I find there's enough of it in real life.
    And that's why this is happening centuries later. Let me state this right now I do not view the Captain as a good man nor do I think that what he did would be the right thing to do I view him as someone that did what he believed needed to be done.

    Quote Originally Posted by Coidzor View Post
    Hardly progressive, they had a segregated military and counted FtMs as women.
    They didn't have a segregated military it was a military prison ship for female prisoners.

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    Then you're suffering from a lack of scale if you have a population of tens of thousands of people to start with and you decide to 1. keep a term that would be outdated and stupid even within the first generation let alone the children of that rape by artificial inseminator. Because even if they're not physically raping them personally, they're still forcing them to get pregnant against their will, so it's close enough for most purposes.

    The captain has to be sexist for setting up such a society in the first place. Otherwise the most objectionable thing they'd do would incentivize that 10s of thousands of people to willingly reproduce in exchange for commutation of their sentence in favor of letting them be productive members of society. Certainly it's sexist of him to decide that not only are the vast majority of women nothing but breeding slaves, their children, but only the female children, are also to suffer that ignomious and unjust fate.

    Further, the fact that he is actually setting up a system that forbids female children from joining the hierarchy of what was a primarily female military structure means he also must be sexist by necessity as well.
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    Sure then he's sexist. Doesn't really matter though since he's long dead.

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    Well, I imagine that would be a rather handy explanation as to why they were capable of having relationships with the opposite sex then for you to watch and get annoyed by, eh?
    Yes, I suppose it would. It's still incredibly aggravating.

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    It's hardly any individual bisexual girl's fault that bisexuality in women is viewed in a more acceptable or even positive light by society at large.
    And the fact that bisexuality isn't viewed nearly as bad when it's a girl than when it's a guy is quite... Ugh. I'm just not going to think about it. How awful.
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    I can see FtM's in that society having a hard time, too - they'd have to constantly 'prove' their masculinity to anyone who knew. Cismales would be assumed to be male or girly, but never outright female.

    A lot of genderism would exist, too - there'd be a lot of MtF's who wouldn't want to surrender their rights and a lot of FtM's worried that they may just be envious of males. It'd be... Pretty similar, actually. I think I can actually picture that happening under the right circumstances...

    I'd see the captain as feeling that he did what was necessary, but he might have failed to take certain factors into account that got progressively worse as generation after generation missed the point. He'd probably have been sexist, but not nearly bad enough to make things so horrible - that'd probably be a later leader. Who they'd have been and why they'd be so unstable, I can't say.

    I also imagine that the inmate caste would quickly become an actual caste, with their children being born into it. That would have some pretty horrifying implications.

    I have a bit of trouble picturing robots, though - if they still worked, the population could probably support itself through cloning. It seems like a total technological reset would be more likely to go that wrong.


    Quote Originally Posted by Triscuitable View Post
    I believe the numbers are more in favor of Male-to-Female Transsexuals, but they're still quite even. From what I Googled in that past five minutes, it's roughly a 55% in favor of men to women.

    Also, what do you gals (and guys, I'm a minority here) think about "phases" in sexuality? I hate the term, and I believe it's just used as an excuse for "I want to be out of the norm!" I think that there are a lot of MtFs that are just guys who want to be girls because "hurka-durka women are hot" (I believe that was word for word from some buffoon I asked at my school).
    You probably won't find an accurate result on Google - only people who recognize and report their gender can be counted, and there's not really a good way to account for others.

    Honestly, I think phases are more-often the other way around. If you grow up hearing that every spontaneous realization you make will be a "phase" that will go away, well... :/

    I don't think there'd be anything wrong with a man who wants to be a woman so he could be hot - I know that I'd like to be hot. It'd be sorta weird in a Silence-of-the-Lambs-ish sort of way, but it wouldn't necessarily indicate that the person objectifies/trivializes feminity (though it may indicate pretty severe self-esteem issues :/).

    It may also be worth noting that some of us may actually think that that's the reason, mistaking envy for attraction (or mixing them together) - especially at a young age.
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    Yes, I suppose it would. It's still incredibly aggravating.
    Protip: Bi isn't some kind of codeword for "gay."

    We've already got enough bisexual guilt over having a relationship with a member of the opposite sex in here as it is.
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    And the fact that bisexuality isn't viewed nearly as bad when it's a girl than when it's a guy is quite... Ugh. I'm just not going to think about it. How awful.
    Well, yes, it's an example of the double standards of society, but again, it isn't something you should direct at bisexual women.
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    Protip: Bi isn't some kind of codeword for "gay."
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    I can see FtM's in that society having a hard time, too - they'd have to constantly 'prove' their masculinity to anyone who knew. Cismales would be assumed to be male or girly, but never outright female.

    A lot of genderism would exist, too - there'd be a lot of MtF's who wouldn't want to surrender their rights and a lot of FtM's worried that they may just be envious of males. It'd be... Pretty similar, actually. I think I can actually picture that happening under the right circumstances...
    That's... perfect I must work this in somehow.

    I'd see the captain as feeling that he did what was necessary, but he might have failed to take certain factors into account that got progressively worse as generation after generation missed the point. He'd probably have been sexist, but not nearly bad enough to make things so horrible - that'd probably be a later leader. Who they'd have been and why they'd be so unstable, I can't say.
    Indeed.

    I also imagine that the inmate caste would quickly become an actual caste, with their children being born into it. That would have some pretty horrifying implications.
    I like that so I'm stealing this as well.

    I have a bit of trouble picturing robots, though - if they still worked, the population could probably support itself through cloning. It seems like a total technological reset would be more likely to go that wrong.
    The robots are more of a remnant from the ship and they do not have the infrastructure to build more. These robots are all military grade and thus incredibly durable. The story is centered around a civilian woman being gifted one of these incredibly valuable machines right before the officer she served died and the uproar this causes.
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    Arachu, you should stop giving him details for his story, and go write your own.
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    *hugs* for Arachu (and anybody else who needs one)

    I like the name Bianca. It sounds much better to be when said with an Italian accent, though.
    I recently suggested my (asexual) friend Bianca marry our other friend whose surname is Weiss so that she could be White White.
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    *hugs* for Arachu (and anybody else who needs one)

    I like the name Bianca. It sounds much better to be when said with an Italian accent, though.
    I recently suggested my (asexual) friend Bianca marry our other friend whose surname is Weiss so that she could be White White.
    She hit me.
    I would too. Where would you find someone with a German last name and an Italian accent?
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    I would too. Where would you find someone with a German last name and an Italian accent?
    I think it's Polish, actually, but obviously the name came from German. And where? Well, she has the Italian accent when she speaks Italian (her accent in English is Philadelphia with a hint of Kentucky), and if she married him, her surname would become Weiss. It's not that complicated even if it does sound kind of silly. Like my Jewish relatives with surnames like McKay or O'Roarty.
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    I would too. Where would you find someone with a German last name and an Italian accent?
    *Coughing* Of the Egner family, can fake an Italian accent pretty well.
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    That's... perfect I must work this in somehow.

    Indeed.

    I like that so I'm stealing this as well.

    The robots are more of a remnant from the ship and they do not have the infrastructure to build more. These robots are all military grade and thus incredibly durable.

    Thanks.

    The robots make sense, then... They'd work best if they ran on solar energy, but if they used gasoline that'd be motivation to enslave the prisoners (they'd need a lot of miners, after all). That would imply knowledge of how to make oil-processing plants, but I'd imagine there would be some engineers (who studied those really early in their education) to set them up.

    The robots themselves would listen to the captain/leader, the remainder of the command staff and the highest-ranking military staff (who may or may not be the command staff, come to think of it) - that would be an incredible balance of power. It could partially explain why they have such terrible luck with leaders; it's hard to say "no" to a rocket launcher...

    It would also likely prevent groups from seceding from the leaders' command, so they would literally be in charge of everything owned by anybody. Damn, I just cringed and I thought of it - and it's fiction!


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    Arachu, you should stop giving him details for his story, and go write your own.


    Actually, I've been thinking about writing lately... I just can't think of what to write and I'm not quite worked up enough to find something. Maybe I'll think about it once I'm done making this Arithmetic Logic Unit design I'm thinking up (it should only be able to do the four basic functions, but it should also be able to 'stack' to make a larger one of whatever size is needed)...
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    Thanks.

    The robots make sense, then... They'd work best if they ran on solar energy, but if they used gasoline that'd be motivation to enslave the prisoners (they'd need a lot of miners, after all). That would imply knowledge of how to make oil-processing plants, but I'd imagine there would be some engineers (who studied those really early in their education) to set them up.
    I've not really given their powersource any thought and just assumed they ran on magic or the next best thing; a miniature nuclear fusion core of some sorts.

    The robots themselves would listen to the captain/leader, the remainder of the command staff and the highest-ranking military staff (who may or may not be the command staff, come to think of it) - that would be an incredible balance of power. It could partially explain why they have such terrible luck with leaders; it's hard to say "no" to a rocket launcher...

    It would also likely prevent groups from seceding from the leaders' command, so they would literally be in charge of everything owned by anybody. Damn, I just cringed and I thought of it - and it's fiction!
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    I think it's Polish, actually, but obviously the name came from German. And where? Well, she has the Italian accent when she speaks Italian (her accent in English is Philadelphia with a hint of Kentucky), and if she married him, her surname would become Weiss. It's not that complicated even if it does sound kind of silly. Like my Jewish relatives with surnames like McKay or O'Roarty.
    Yeah, but if he doesn't have an Italian accent then you'd run the risk of hearing the name Bianca without an Italian accent.
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    Yeah, but if he doesn't have an Italian accent then you'd run the risk of hearing the name Bianca without an Italian accent.
    Meh, that happens all the time anyway. It's not like she says her own name very often, and when she does it's usually in the midst of an English sentence and is spoken with an American accent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noparlpf View Post
    Meh, that happens all the time anyway. It's not like she says her own name very often, and when she does it's usually in the midst of an English sentence and is spoken with an American accent.
    *shudder* Chilling.
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    Yeah, but if he doesn't have an Italian accent then you'd run the risk of hearing the name Bianca without an Italian accent.
    How is it pronounced with an American accent? Bee-aeng-kuh (like ankle)? Or do the Italian people I know pronounce it with an American accent?
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    How is it pronounced with an American accent? Bee-aen-kuh (like ankle)? Or do the Italian people I know pronounce it with an American accent?
    Actually, it's "Bee-ahn-kuh", with "ahn-kuh" as in "ankh" (a cross-like object related to Egyptian royalty).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Triscuitable View Post
    Actually, it's "Bee-ahn-kuh", with "ahn-kuh" as in "ankh" (a cross-like object related to Egyptian royalty).
    Ok, so what's the Italian pronunciation then? I've always heard it the way you're pronouncing it.

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    How is it pronounced with an American accent? Bee-aeng-kuh (like ankle)? Or do the Italian people I know pronounce it with an American accent?
    What "American" accent? All I know is that's it's horrible from a Georgian, Alabaman, or Bostonian accent. Apparently everyone else forgot that moment though, so the callback was not particularly effective.
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    Is it ironic that that's what you could have said to make me feel better?

    *Hugs* thanks. I actually spent a lot of time picking my name; I went through two English name databases and one with names from across the world. There were other names with more meaningful translations than "white", but Bianca just stood out.

    Also, it actually reassures me a lot when someone says they don't know what to say - it means that they care enough to want to help. Something about that always puts tears in my eyes.
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    I don't know why I let myself be so vulnerable to him. Maybe it's because I trust him more than anyone really. I'm more open with him than anyone else. And he's told me things that he's nigh whispered things to me while noone was in sight lest anyone else hear him say them. And the biggest reason I don't want to go against his wishes is so he doesn't get hurt or feel betrayed. He's already felt too much pain already, and the last thing I want to do is hurt him any more. The thing is he cares about me, so much, and he doesn't want me to heal his pain because the last one to try broke, but I can't let him suffer. walnut want him to be happy and full. But he said that if I try to fix him I will be betraying him. I can't imagine what he's forcing himself to do alk alone.

    He needs me... And I want him. He wants me too, I know he does and he's acknowledged this and still does, but he's more concerned with protecting me and my "innocence."
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    What "American" accent? All I know is that's it's horrible from a Georgian, Alabaman, or Bostonian accent. Apparently everyone else forgot that moment though, so the callback was not particularly effective.
    Good point.

    I was just curious how you've heard it pronounced from those places.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nix Nihila View Post
    Ok, so what's the Italian pronunciation then? I've always heard it the way you're pronouncing it.
    "Bee-ahn-kuh". It doesn't really change. My name doesn't suddenly become "Rye-ehz", and my sister's doesn't become "Ssow-eh". It's basically just a slight accent on some words, but others are untouched, just like an English accent.

    Quote Originally Posted by Coidzor View Post
    What "American" accent? All I know is that's it's horrible from a Georgian, Alabaman, or Bostonian accent. Apparently everyone else forgot that moment though, so the callback was not particularly effective.
    Yeah, I should've made note. I've got a Seattlite accent, which is basically Southwest Canada, and some Northwest US. My accent will be different from those even two states over, with their creepy cheese obsession.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nix Nihila View Post
    Good point.

    I was just curious how you've heard it pronounced from those places.
    Unfortunately I'm rubbish at transcribing such things. :/ I just thought it was funny that I was torturing myself by imagining the name being said over and over again in my head.
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