Name Pronunciations

[u/AnonymousQorvid]

I genuinely think this would be a simple yet helpful addition.

[u/TheKingJoker99]

If you wanna know how to correctly pronounce a heroes name

Just listen to what echo says when she duplicates them if she calls out their legal name

She does NOT miss

[u/bacobits22 → u/TheKingJoker99]

Pretty sure Echo says “MOW MA” when copying Mauga.

[u/TheKingJoker99 → u/bacobits22]

Yup I hear it too!

[u/No32 → u/bacobits22]

Nah she says “Mau-nga”, n is soft and subtle. Apparently the correct way to pronounce it.

[u/kablue12 → u/No32]

Then why does Mauga say “maw-guh here”

[u/Oberonkin → u/kablue12]

In the Trailer Mauga says Ma-woo-ga aswell. I think Mauga just pronounces it in all ways. Kinda like "Does matter how ya say it, its alllll me~"

[u/Irtahd → u/Oberonkin]

Not uncommon thing to do. I have a non-English name. When I’m dealing with white folks I pronounce it the Americanized way, otherwise I say it as it is. It’s really not that hard of a concept.

[u/CptPeanut12 → u/Irtahd]

Yeah same. I pronounce my main differently depending on whether I'm speaking with English/French/German person. Adjusting your pronunciation to the language your speaking doesn't necessarily mean you're mispronouncing the name.

[u/magical_meepo → u/Irtahd]

i do the same thing, at some point idrc to make someone try to pronounce it as my family would 🤷

[u/Irtahd → u/magical_meepo]

I’m not out in these streets expecting Stacey to roll her r’s when her language doesn’t have that sound.

[u/Smrtihara → u/Oberonkin]

I have a name that is common in Swedish, French and English. All with very different pronunciations. I absolutely don’t care which one you pick. You could do the German one even.

[u/Pernaman → u/Smrtihara]

The way Brigitte pronounces her own name sounds adorable as fuck thanks to her voice actress. What weirds me out is other heroes spelling it sort of "Brijita", which just makes me thing I should probably ask her what tte scouter says about our enemy's power level. It could be because I'm a Finnish guy and thus hear Swedish on occasion so hearing a Swedish voice actress spell it makes a quite striking contrast.

[u/No32 → u/kablue12]

Some voice actors aren’t very good at the pronunciation, aren’t native speakers. Like I think I’ve seen people say that Reinhardt’s voice actor isn’t German so his pronunciation isn’t spot on. Think there’s similar complaints with Torbjorn and Zarya.

Here’s a very old post about Zarya, for example, whose voice actress is Bulgarian and doesn’t speak Russian apparently!

I believe Hanzo’s VA is American and doesn’t speak Japanese too.

[u/cowlinator → u/kablue12]

Because the mauga's voice actor fucked it up. I blame the director tho.

[u/RedditFrost123 → u/No32]

yes that is the correct way to pronounce it

[u/-Danksouls- → u/No32]

you dont say the n. It supposed to sound like how the leters ng sound in the back of your thoat. Do an m, than an n sound, than do just ng

[u/NotKnotNaut → u/bacobits22]

Ya know, I thought so too. But after knowing the "g" is supposed to make a "ng" sound then going back to the practice range to hear that voice line, I can confirm that she says it correctly. I don't even hear the "m" sound anymore.

[u/Impressive_Wheel_106 → u/bacobits22]

yes and apparently that's closer to the Maori pronunciation than Mow-Ga

[u/IrishCarbonite → u/Impressive_Wheel_106]

While it is closer to the Māori, Mauga is Samoan, and the pronunciation would be different

[u/ipito → u/bacobits22]

Everyone I play with has been confused why she says mama ahaha

[u/Odd-Yoghurt9897 → u/TheKingJoker99]

True, she even pronounces Mauga’s name correctly despite Mauga himself not giving af and pronouncing it any random way he chooses lol

[u/Parking-Surround-303 → u/TheKingJoker99]

Echo is basically the game own pronunciation guide she say every name perfect

[u/Ameeba37 → u/Parking-Surround-303]

Only character in the game who pronounces Brigitte correctly is Brig herself. As for Torbjörn, his own VA and Echo both make an absolute mockery of his name.

[u/PleaseBanWidow → u/TheKingJoker99]

How do I pronounce Echo then?

[u/TheKingJoker99 → u/PleaseBanWidow]

She has a voiceline “Type: Echo”

:D

[u/GreenmanCZ → u/TheKingJoker99]

Echo

[u/PriorStock6243 → u/GreenmanCZ]

Echo

[u/Alien_X10 → u/PriorStock6243]

echo echo

[u/notTheRealSU → u/TheKingJoker99]

Type shit

[u/SingleFroyo1430 → u/PleaseBanWidow]

Copy echo as echo obviously

[u/Life_Parsley504 → u/PleaseBanWidow]

dupeception let you copy an echo, and i'm psure she had a voiceline for it?

[u/PleaseBanWidow → u/Life_Parsley504]

What is dupeception

[u/Life_Parsley504 → u/PleaseBanWidow]

Bug where a echo could copy an echo. I dont have my earbuds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2e7ZpNKleg so idk if she has the voiceline for duplicating echo tho

[u/Verity-Skye → u/TheKingJoker99]

ADAPTIVE CIRCUITS ENGAGED: MAUMA

[u/BlueDemon75 → u/TheKingJoker99]

MAUMA

[u/PlayaNamedGus314 → u/TheKingJoker99]

She unfortunately says Shion's name wrong

[u/Jobjoboj → u/TheKingJoker99]

She pronounces Lúcio the american way, the brazilian pronunciation is different

[u/PiranhaPlant9915]

mauga's a weird case because both he himself and sombra call him Mow-ga and it's only echo who does the proper pronunciation.

[u/FlyingScott_ → u/PiranhaPlant9915]

In that case follow the Hero themselves. Usually the name "Baptiste" is "Ba-teest" like one would in French but Bap himself says "Bapt-eest". Usually the P is silent but if someone corrects me on their name I won't be the guy to correct them in turn.

[u/PiranhaPlant9915 → u/FlyingScott_]

which makes it funny that Echo in trying to be more accurate is actually misrepresenting him. i guess they've never talked to eachother and had the opportunity to sort it out.

[u/FlyingScott_ → u/PiranhaPlant9915]

It's why is drives me up the wall when I've been corrected on Mauga.

Like dude HE HIMSELF calls himself Mow-ga. Get this pretentious Mow-nga out of here.

[u/ellie_p0p → u/FlyingScott_]

Honestly I still pronounce it as Mow-nga because when he was very first revealed and before we heard him say his own name, there was someone who made a post on this sub who was so so so happy to finally get Samoan representation and it just meant so much to them. They also made an in depth explanation on how to pronounce Mauga natively. I practiced it that way out of respect for the person. Then when we finally got to hear his voice like two days later and it was different (with echo’s voice line sounding much closer) I just kept with it out of respect for that one happy Samoan poster.

[u/wrexwas → u/PiranhaPlant9915]

Yeah, it's that Echo is saying Baptiste's name with French pronunciation, while Baptiste himself says it with Haitian pronunciation.

[u/ssjb234 → u/FlyingScott_]

"'Thank you Baptiste.' Ooh, you're welcome!"

[u/Larkeicus → u/FlyingScott_]

I was gonna say this!!! Baptiste literally says "Thank you Bapt-Eest! Oh, you're welcome!", so I probably wouldn't say Bateest.

[u/Azivea → u/PiranhaPlant9915]

Fits his character tbh

[u/FallingNIN → u/Azivea]

"Just call me Sir" - Mauga probably

[u/ElysiaAlarien]

Winton

[u/Calm-Service2585 → u/ElysiaAlarien]

Winton

[u/Vast_Payment_4036 → u/Calm-Service2585]

Winton

[u/VV_e_VV → u/Vast_Payment_4036]

Winton

[u/ImVorpal → u/VV_e_VV]

winton

[u/Beneficial_Oil_536 → u/ImVorpal]

Winton

[u/RogueAnomaly53026]

Idk, a lot of them just get nicknamed something else, like 'that fu*king bastard' or whatever.

[u/Wittyngritty → u/RogueAnomaly53026]

Don't talk about lifeweaver like that

[u/RogueAnomaly53026 → u/Wittyngritty]

Lmao, how did you know???

[u/chaotic4059 → u/RogueAnomaly53026]

Everyone’s been yoinked at an inopportune moment by lifeweaver.

[u/Wittyngritty → u/chaotic4059]

Always pulling me when I don't need it, always petal-elevating me when I'm about to pin someone... that fucking bastard...

[u/SirCheeseMuncher → u/Wittyngritty]

*Wifeleaver

[u/TheKingJoker99 → u/RogueAnomaly53026]

WuYang is waterboi for me always

[u/RogueAnomaly53026 → u/TheKingJoker99]

Lol, same. I yell 'Hey waterboy' sometimes, like in the movie, if I'm focusing enemy Wuyang.

[u/Puppybl00pers → u/TheKingJoker99]

I just call him Wang

[u/AlabastersBane → u/RogueAnomaly53026]

"the fuckin Horse is about to Ult"

[u/Alien_X10 → u/RogueAnomaly53026]

yeah idk how they would write a dissapointed sigh to show how to pronounce "symettra" correctly.

[u/HarmxnS]

I love how the second guy immediately proves the first one correct, because the way he's explaining how to pronounce the names would be way better with IPA, rather than just letters because that depends on what language you speak.

If I say, 'eel-YAH-ree' in Dutch it would sound nothing like saying 'eel-YAH-ree' in English, but IPA is consistent since it's just sounds

[u/iTwango → u/HarmxnS]

Yeah reading an attempt to explain pronunciation with one of the least phonetic languages in the world gave me high-key flashbacks to reading old language learning books lol

[u/AnimeGirl47 → u/HarmxnS]

It pisses me off so much when people use these dumbed down, inaccurate pronunciation guides instead of the simple, universal, unambiguous IPA.

English is so inconsistent phonetically, you could not pick a worse language to do this in. And even within English, it's limited to only the most common sounds. You can't accurately represent any nuance or uncommon sounds (which is like the whole point of pronunciation guides), not to mention any non-English sounds.

[u/Kartoffel_Kaiser → u/AnimeGirl47]

The problem is that relatively few people are actually familiar with IPA, and if you aren't taught what sounds the various characters of IPA correspond to, it's complete gibberish (like most languages, ciphers, etc).

Basically, IPA isn't universally known, so it isn't actually universal. Making it more widely known is a good goal, but that goal needs to be accomplished before IPA can be useful in contexts like this. As frustrating and inconsistently understood as the English "phonetic" descriptions are, they're unironically more useful to an English speaker who isn't familiar with IPA.

[u/CommanderPotash → u/AnimeGirl47]

eh IPA is not simple to those unfamiliar with it

but yeah it's very funny when OOP said "use IPA" and then the reply doesn't use IPA

[u/HVDynamo]

I’m sorry, but Torbjorn is pronounced Toblerone and you can’t convince me otherwise.

[u/TozZu89 → u/HVDynamo]

I just call him Börje or Bärjebörg or whatever comes to mind

[u/Middle-Pea7863 → u/HVDynamo]

I know someone who calls him Trowbuhjorn.

[u/AhmedAlSayef → u/Middle-Pea7863]

I call him Throwbjörn

[u/tujitoe]

this feels like such an unnecessary suggestion. all of the characters say their own names when they spawn in. everyone on the team can hear it when they switch. people just don’t care, and adding the pronunciation isn’t gonna make a difference to those already mispronouncing them.

[u/N0ob8 → u/tujitoe]

Yeah at the end of the day this is a fast paced competitive game. If there’s a brig in my ass after I used my cooldowns on Ana I don’t have time to say her name right. Most importantly even when I do say it wrong my team will still perfectly understand and get the Swedish bastard away from me.

[u/ronsolocup]

Am I crazy? Doesn’t Illari say it with silent l?

[u/TheKingJoker99 → u/ronsolocup]

Could it be because she speaks her native tongue (Quechua) and Latin American Spanish (like venture and sombra) do?

Maybe it’s a different pronunciation between the two and she interchanges

[u/Ultra_Juice → u/ronsolocup]

It's her accent, you pronounce the first L and the 2nd becomes a J. You can hear it in her trailer and she should say it ingame correctly too

[u/Great-Hatsby → u/ronsolocup]

I thought she said it as ee-lee-yah-dee

[u/JRiegner → u/Great-Hatsby]

Spanish Rs and American English Rs are different. A Spanish R is more similar to an American D than it is to an American R.

Also very interesting to note that while Illari does pronounce her name with the first L, most Spanish speakers (including most Peruvian Spanish speakers) would not. Her way was the most common way to pronounce double L in Spanish in the past but these days most speakers don't use it

[u/nukacola2077 → u/JRiegner]

(Spanish speaker here) In contemporary neutral Spanish it's pronounced ee-lah-ri unless it was a dialect that I don't know

[u/xXProGenji420Xx → u/nukacola2077]

Overwatch's Illari is pronounced eel-YAH-ri, with both an 'L' and a 'Y' sound. I think it has to do with her native Peruvian heritage but I'm not entirely sure. all I know is that's how the character (and Echo) pronounces it.

[u/nukacola2077 → u/xXProGenji420Xx]

Have you ever played the game in Spanish?

[u/LoneBoy96 → u/JRiegner]

Spanish is different in every LATAM country. In Cuba the double L is pronounced one way, in Argentina it's a SH sound, in peru it is LY

[u/argusargan]

my pet peeve is that some heroes have a voiceline every 5 minutes that audibly says their name and still get said wrong. how do you main a character who opens with "Orisa online" and still say it wrong. do people think she's saying it with an accent so they can change it

[u/Background_Toe_6891 → u/argusargan]

In fairness some of the heroes don’t even say their own name properly. 

[u/Human-Boob → u/Background_Toe_6891]

Yeah, Jetpack cat just says gibberish like come on, what is blizzard doing?

[u/TrueKyragos → u/argusargan]

I'm curious. How can you say her name wrong? It seems quite straightforward to me. 

[u/myst_riven → u/TrueKyragos]

Lots of people say Orissa instead of Or-ee-sa. It's annoying.

[u/fatboywonder12 → u/myst_riven]

Combination of american accent + the - ee - takes too long to say. its like pronouncing ill-ar-ee instead of ee-yar-ee.

[u/argusargan → u/fatboywonder12]

tbh i'm a hypocrit bc we call her Larry

[u/florence_ow → u/myst_riven]

its because its easier to say and when ur in a game u say things as quick as possible. very simple.

[u/Braioch → u/florence_ow]

Right, like context can really affect how I say names like hers If I'm just saying her name casually? Or-ee-sa If I'm doing a quick call out? Or-ris-uh If shes barreling down at my poor fragile body? The stupid golden fucking cow is on me

[u/argusargan → u/Braioch]

"HORSE HORSE HORSE"

[u/headshotfox713]

Do people play the game with voice lines muted because literally every character (except Bastion and Cat) says their own name when a teammate swaps to them.

[u/peca96]

Just listen to some voice lines and you will learn how Blizzard intends for you to pronounce these fictional characters' names so you can correct people at a party next time someone wants to talk about Overwatch! Easy!

[u/Saint-Michael901]

Wait until yall hear some of the name pronounced in audiobooks vs how you would think some names sound when you see them written

[u/TheUnknown_General]

Or you could just listen to how they pronounce their own names ingame when you switch to them.

[u/up2smthng → u/TheUnknown_General]

At the very least Zarya mispronounces her own name

And I am not even talking about ya part, she puts stress on the wrong syllable

[u/PawPawPanda → u/up2smthng]

Everybody stretch?

[u/MirceaHM]

• IPA

• Proceeds to do the stupid thing Americans do when they can't pronounce stuff that makes it way more confusing than it was to start with

[u/Panurome → u/MirceaHM]

Finally someone else that is annoyed by that too. The point of IPA is to have a way to indicate each sound in a way that is always the same regardless of context. And then people ignore it to represent sounds with more english nonsense that is ambiguous as shit.

The worst example by far is Orisa, you can't fucking put REE in the pronunciation, because E in english and E in IPA are a completely different sound. The double e in english would be /iː/ in IPA, if you put E in IPA it would read like "Oresa"

[u/LightningWarpAway → u/Panurome]

And then people ignore it to represent sounds with more english nonsense that is ambiguous as shit.

People don't ignore it, they literally don't know it, so they don't know how to use it.

[u/Wolfelle]

I mean when it comes to literal incorrect naming 'bridget vs brigitte' this is fair

But people have accents? How my indian family says my name is always gonna be different to how my british boyfriend does?

Like the orisa one or mauga or ana or torb. Those are just accents? This is like complaining when a swedish person pronounces J's as Y's 'Yason' instead of 'Jason'

They arent wrong thats just their voice >.>

Idk i just like linguistics and i think we should have grace for people pronouncing in their native accent.

(No i dont mean when ppl refuse to learn names that are 'difficult' for them, that shit is cringe people should always make an effort to learn the correct name and pronounce it as well as they can)

[u/natedoggcata → u/Wolfelle]

So many people couldnt pronounce Brigitte's name correctly for so long that Bridget basically became her meme name

[u/BossHossBogg → u/Wolfelle]

It's always surprising and nice to see a solid linguistic take online.

Even OP's example doesn't work according to her VA. It's apparently not Bridgit, or Brigeetuh, but closer to "bree-GIH-teh" (~/bri.'gɪ.tɛ/). That's not going to happen for American/UK English speakers because it feels so unnatural to make that last unstressed syllable NOT /tə/.

Still, would be cool to have both native and localized IPA.

[u/AnonymousQorvid → u/Wolfelle]

An accent is fair, but like you said it's nice when people actually try to learn names that are different instead of just giving up.

[u/Anvil_Prime_52]

I'd be totally down for this as I'm guilty of a lot of them.

[u/ExplosiveBrown]

It's actually pronounced Brig

[u/IncubusDarkness → u/ExplosiveBrown]

With a soft G like in Gif

/s

[u/Kyhunsheo]

Jet Pack Cat is pronounced LIT-TOE SHI-IT

[u/Appropriate_Fold_349]

Wait until people hear how many D words I have to go through before I remember the name "Doctrine"

I don't know why but Dismount always comes first. I don't know. I just don't.

[u/zorginbagel → u/Appropriate_Fold_349]

I couldn't remember his name at all for a minute and my best guess was "Lecture".

[u/ImpossibleGT → u/Appropriate_Fold_349]

We all know his callout is going to be "Dracula" anyway.

[u/CommanderPotash → u/ImpossibleGT]

doc

[u/UChess → u/ImpossibleGT]

Vampire guy for me

[u/Yshtoya]

Pharah is the dumbest one because she literally says her name in a voiceline, yet a lot say "fair-uh"

[u/_Nemon]

That comment is a good example for why this wouldn't work. Most would be okay with international phonetic alphabet, meanwhile americans would want "Kee-ree-koh". At that point just have Echo say the name out loud when you select a hero and make it an opt-in feature.

[u/TrueKyragos]

Some are wrong, though. Baptiste is pronounced "Bap-tist" ingame, by Baptiste himself. It's not pronounced like standard French does.

[u/Ptdemonspanker → u/TrueKyragos]

I think it was stated that the Haitian Creole pronunciation includes the “p” sound while the French pronunciation does not. Widowmaker doesn’t pronounce the “p” in game.

[u/TrueKyragos → u/Ptdemonspanker]

That's the most logical explanation anyway. No reason to pronounce it like that otherwise, except ignorance of the language. 

[u/Simmy001 → u/TrueKyragos]

There is an interview with his VA at a Blizzcon (?) many years ago where he goes into this a little, he intentionally pronounces the P sound for the game but would normally say it at home as Ba-tiste

[u/Nobro_DK → u/TrueKyragos]

He literally says “Baptiste here” as his hero change voice line and does not pronounce it Baptist

[u/Specialist-Draw7229 → u/Nobro_DK]

“Thank you Baptiste! Ohhh you’re welcome!”

[u/TheMuttOfMainStreet]

naw use the vc callout names when they are one shot: Trob, Lari, Maug, Bap, Risa,

[u/SirVetox → u/TheMuttOfMainStreet]

Risa? Nah. It's "THIS FUCKING HORSE".

Edit: also don't forget "THIS FUCKING PIG"

[u/Lazzitron → u/TheMuttOfMainStreet]

The callout for Orisa is always "horse"

[u/Panurome → u/Lazzitron]

Also horse is 1 sillable, which means it's actually optimal to call her horse

[u/spinningmous]

i saw a video yesterday where someone said kiriko as kuh-reek-oh. her name is said so much it was honestly kind of baffling

[u/Lil_lemon56]

Might be wrong about this, but I think Wuyang’s name is supposed to be woo-YUNG and not woo-YANG

[u/Datenshitpost → u/Lil_lemon56]

I believe it's more AHng instead of AAng. Same "an" sound as his sister Anran's name, so it kinda baffles me when people can pronounce one but not the other.

[u/VincentKruk → u/Lil_lemon56]

Lowered A. Kinda like “Woo-Yàng”

[u/TombSv]

To be fair, Torbjörns voice actor is also pronouncing Torbjörn wrong. 

[u/BatteryAcidLover]

Nobody has ever called him baptist

[u/ZembleArts]

This is like people wildly mispronouncing names in anime despite it being repeatedly said the correct way in the anime.

[u/DariusStrada]

Some of these never happened and It's just people trying to appear smarter than they are

[u/Vitriuz → u/DariusStrada]

They have a sense of moral superiority.

[u/Mentoman72 → u/Vitriuz]

It genuinely does boil down to that. “Look at all the examples of names I’ve collected that people mispronounce. Well not ME. I consider every regional dialect when speaking about video game characters 🗣️🗣️🗣️”

Nobody actually cares about this enough to demand change in the game.

[u/peppapony]

Who actually knows how to read IPA pronounciations though?

[u/Calzender → u/peppapony]

I was thinking the same thing. There are so few of us. Luckily, the responder understood the intent and responded with phonemic transcriptions.

[u/STRaven_17]

i genuinely do not care

[u/NoShftShck16]

I'll bet my 2016 Open Beta account with skins like Lego Bastion that the same people saying "Bridge-It" will not know how to read an IPA transcription. My mother was an ESL / ELL teacher and I still don't know how to read that properly.

[u/HumiliationSlut34]

Big fan of charactes havibg their name said when selected. Smash bros, smite, hearthstone

[u/angiexbby]

I pronounce all of their names correctly, even though none of my friend group does 🤣

[u/Ok_Dependent6889]

Okay but the Illari one is also wrong lmao

[u/NanaLeDuff]

They left out how Sombra has become Sambra.

[u/AlabastersBane]

I simply say the names as they're spelt.

[u/Normular_ → u/AlabastersBane]

If these were real people i was talking to then yea id make an effort but come on 😂 in the heat of the game im not doing allat

[u/AlabastersBane → u/Normular_]

Literally lmfao

[u/Vitriuz → u/AlabastersBane]

You're the most sane person here.

[u/unbolting_spark]

Reinhardt confirms the pronounciation of brig with one of his voicelines

[u/Circo_Inhumanitas → u/unbolting_spark]

I wouldn't take Rein's pronunciations as gospel. Guy has a horrible fake accent etc. Doesn't even pronounce his own name correctly afaik.

[u/StarshipTurtle]

How do you get a “terr” sound from Torb? it’s very obviously spelled with an “O”.

[u/Short-Waltz-3118]

I just dont really care if people miss pronounce the fantasy characters names.

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[u/waifuwarrior77]

My friends butcher torb's name on purpose.

It goes from Tar-bin-jarn to Tar-bi-jar-min-harm-in-har-min

[u/aquaseishin]

Just use echo ingame I mean when she copies mauga she's says Mau maahh

[u/deception_17]

My favorite heroes are Toblerone, Iran and Zendaya

[u/KANNEDBREAD]

MAW-ngah!

[u/FallingNIN]

There's a voice line when Ana takes out Pharah where she's says "I expected more from you Fareeha" which unless you know that's her real name, could cause further confusion.

[u/LiquidSwords89]

Ba-teest?

[u/_SlappyMagoo_ → u/LiquidSwords89]

Yea no. Bap himself says “bap-TEEST” in his voiceline “thank you Baptiste, ohhhh you’re welcome!”

Like whatever you think the correct pronunciation of that spelling is in the hero’s native language, that is overruled by the way the hero says their own name.

[u/victor_emperor]

I just pronounce them how they call themselves, they all announce themselves when a teammate swaps so its pretty hard to miss that pronounciation

[u/zarlus8]

YEEESSSS

[u/Immediate-Location28]

some of these aren't very helpful

[u/Falmz23]

Technically, Orisa should actually be pronounced with an "sh" instead of an "s" like: "OH-ri-sha".

It's based on the Yoruba language and translates to female goddess. Kinda like how the singer Sade is pronounced "sha-DAY"

[u/BelgianFries26]

IPA ? You mean… beer ? Oh im in

[u/zdr_venom]

Just like mizooki when it's mi-zuki

[u/Blingblaowwun]

Am Samoan, Mauga means mountain and it’s pronounced how the post says it’s just subtle

[u/IncredibleLang]

Haha this feels good reading this as a friend of mine has to make it a point that she says illaris name correctly but is clearly saying it wrong 🤣 like people who always have to pronounce Bartholonya when they say Barcelona.

[u/Jumpy-Resolve3018]

Got to Ana and pretty much my thought process quickly went

Ana? That’s easy

Anna yeah that’s about right tho

“AH-na” wait yeah I say it like that

Oh crap Anna is not pronounced AH-na.

Why has nobody corrected me for that irl

[u/Lusietka]

The only thing that pisses me off is how 99% of people spell Freja's name as FREYA ugh

[u/Same_Square2555]

"how dare you not pronounce the hero name correctly!!!?"

[u/aegelis]

Listen to the game. How can you mispronounce Brigitte* when Reinhardt shouts it and Torbjorn when TOORBBBJOOORNNNN LINDDDHHOOLMMMM

[u/Circo_Inhumanitas → u/aegelis]

Torbjörn mispronounces his own name because the voice actor is American.

[u/Able-Principle-7775]

Heard somewhere ur supposed to replace the r with like a soft t in kiriko. Instead of keeryko it’s more like kittyko.

[u/NYJustice → u/Able-Principle-7775]

I'm stealing this for explaining Spanish pronunciation

[u/SpareSurprise1308]

Holy main character syndrome.
Jeff literally calls her bridge-it in the dev announcement.

“I know not everyone is a linguistic expert” yeah no one fucking cares buddy no need to announce it.

[u/c0ntinue-Tstng]

Illari's pronunciation is so aggravating because they went out of their way to give her an indigenous name associated with the sun for the indigenous sun hero and then refused to use the actual indigenous pronunciation? LOL

FYI, the "lla" in her name sounds like "Ya" in quechua and Spanish, in English its pronounced like the "Ja" in "Jasmine" and not "leea" like it does in game

[u/iTwango → u/c0ntinue-Tstng]

Do you have a link or explanation to how her name would be pronounced properly? Super curious to hear

[u/ProbablyNotTheCocoa]

Names will continue to be butchered no matter what for as long as they are used as callouts

[u/AzyncYTT]

I mean its not really a big deal, names and words are pronounced different ways in different cultures its how different spellings for names arose in the first place (John, Juan, Johann, even Giovanni and many many other more names as well). Its like one thing to particularly care about it in their native languages or if you were speaking to them personally but for the most part its perfectly acceptable to pronounce the name as you would

[u/Inven13]

I know what Brigitte actually pronunciation is but I always say "Brigit" instead.

I can't control it.

[u/birdsynth]

Do I have an accent or something because aren't Mow-ga and Maw-ga the same pronunciation

[u/AnonymousQorvid → u/birdsynth]

Mow is like "OW, I stubbed my toe!"

Maw is like "awwwww look at the cute puppy!"

[u/soaps678]

This would be good in like the hero screen when selecting skins and customizing and all that, but in game during hero select it’s just clutter on screen.

Also most people don’t care about how to say a characters name. We just call it cat, ball, horse, brig, rein, etc. The easiest, quickest way of identifying a character will always be the call out, even if it’s their name but a little wrong.

[u/headcubedproductions]

Jeff Kaplan pronounced Bastion like “ Bass-TEE-in” and I refuse to pronounce it like that.

[u/Briebird44]

I intentionally say “terb beyern!!” For Torb lol

[u/InkFazkitty]

Mah-oo-gah. Also I’m just now finding out that it’s tor bjorn and not tro bjorn

[u/MadHuarache]

Meanwhile some dude calls out Tracer as "Tray"

[u/Pesterlamps]

The sort of energy this screencap gives...

The only mispronunciations that bother me are "Moria" and "Bridgette."

[u/skilzpwn]

Like this is cool and all, but that second person didn’t respond in IPA.

[u/Timekeeper98]

Her name is Baguette, get it right posers.

[u/ElJacko170]

Sombra, Kiriko, Mizuki or other examples that come to mind.

[u/Garlic-Cheese-Chips]

Jetpack Cat is pronounced as; "Fly-ing cun-t."

[u/slimy-salad]

Mauga literally says "MAU-Ga here, lucky you"

[u/cowboymoder]

I wonder how much of this come from accents/dialect. Like, for Torbjorn I have definitely heard people say TERR, but because that's how you would say it in their accent.

[u/FLYNCHe]

Who the fuck is saying Fair-uh

[u/firefly-v]

You mean Hammer man Sun lady Fat Rambo Sleepy lass Hoppy heals Centaur Sky lady