Fashanadu like the x in axolotl
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Most English accents abhor an initial consonant + s sound. E.g., initial ps (as in psychology) is pronounced s. Initial pn (as in pnuematic) is just n. So initial x is pronounced z. But of course all these phonemes get their āfullā or ānormalā pronunciations within words (apse, apnea, textual).
Why is who knows. Well someone knows. Phoneticians specifically. But not me.
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oh i should just start words like iām talking finnish
this is weird because i naturally place english as closer to swedish than finnish
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Just the Faxanadu, maāam!
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I vote for āFa-Shanaduā now, though.
Fa-Shanadu only if you say the Xanadu in your best Italian accent (Shangdu by way of Marco Polo)
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In practice I think itās more of a quick āUgzavierā
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A friend of mine also told me they say Eggzavier so youāre in good company
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The real pronunciation:
ćć”ć¶ććć„
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iām somehow unhappy about faxanadu just being shorthand for famicom xanadu and not like, the other xanadu, thatās in this one game
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i xanadonāt and never xanawill!
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English and Swedish are both Germanic or at least Indo-European languages where Finnish is Finnic/Uralic right? iām not surprised
ohhh wait youāre saying that Finnish handles leading consonants closer to English hey. wellā¦ cool!
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with the difference that this is reflected in finnish writing. and also thereās a general avoidance of starting with multiple consonants apparently?
like, stockholm is renamed tukholma in finnish, and many loan words get the same treatment
skruv, the swedish form of screw, is in finnish simply ruuvi cause fuck everything preceding that r i guess
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WELL, thereās always the inevitable video teaching us how to pronounce the latest XBOX
and now you can too pronounce
- TV
- Collarduty
- SPORTS
without any hiccups ā¦ wait 
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real talk now though:
caught myself saying
ECKS-bo-CKS Series ECKS
vs
CHA-vier
and both are repressnted by the same glyph, hmmm
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zuh
zuh-zuh
aluz
iām your only friend
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oh thatās so interesting! kinda like Japanese or MÄori huh. love a vowel after every consonant
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they said facts-anadu on captain n so that is permanently implanted into my brain but in the surprising amount of times i say it out loud i do say fuh zanadu
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I always said facts zanadu until i found out the reason for the name, then it became fah zanadu, or sometimes foe (as in Faux) xanadu.
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