help on pronunciations

[bleedingskeptic]

ok, i hear people talk about certain bands that i know. but they seem to pronounce them differently than i do and we argue, so how do you pronounce...

dimmu borgir
borknagar
veds buen endes
and the titles to the first 3 ulver albums

 

[Wolfenchild]

Originally posted by bleedingskeptic
ok, i hear people talk about certain bands that i know. but they seem to pronounce them differently than i do and we argue, so how do you pronounce...

dimmu borgir
borknagar
veds buen endes
and the titles to the first 3 ulver albums

OK, personally:

Dim-mu Boar-Gear
Bork-nah-garr
Vedz Bwen En Dez

And for the ulver albums:

Ber-Gatt: Eh E-ven-tier Aye Five Cap-it-lerr
Nat-tens Mad-rig-all: Aah-teh Him till Ull-ven aye Mand-en

'Theme's from William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" 'is pretty self explanatory...


But that's just me.

 

[Eirik]

do you mean ved buens ende? cause veds buen endes dun make sense..

 

[elm lateral]

De - moo Boar-gear

Eheh, just me

 

[random_phil]

I think I read somewherethat Dimmu Borgir was pronounced 'Dimm-Ooh Bore-yer'


But I could be wrong.

 

[TravisW]

Dimmu Borgir
Dimm--Ooh Bore--year

Borknagar
Bork-nah-garr

Ved Buens Ende
Vay Boo-enss En-deh

 

[Opet]

You guys!! It's pronounced Dummy-Burger. I thought this was going to be another, "How do you pronounce Opeth/Akerfeldt" thread.

Umm, if that's you Phil, you smoke while you sing? Isn't that...painful?

 

[Melancholia]

Ved buens Ende is pronounced
"Ved Buens ende" (all e-s like in the word "help" and the u like the "ou" in "could" or almost anyway )
It is norwegian and it means "at the end of the bow"
you know the bow with the arrows

~mel~ (wonderful at giving descriptions )

 

[Staffan]

Dummies it's pronounced bärj-tatt and dimm-u boar-geer with a short ee sound... it's kinda hard to explain for a swede since most of these names and titles sounds pretty natural

 

[no country for old wainds]

Dim-moo Bore-gear....I'm certain....

 

[ShadowLioness]

Originally posted by Opet
You guys!! It's pronounced Dummy-Burger. ]

Now why didn't I ever think of that??

Honestly, I have heard it pronounced SEVERAL times as:

dim-you-bore-gear

It does make sense though that the "g" would have a "y" sound, as some have mentioned here. Ah well...they aren't one of my faves anyway

 

[Russell]

Originally posted by Wolfenchild
Ber-Gatt: Eh E-ven-tier Aye Five Cap-it-lerr
Nat-tens Mad-rig-all: Aah-teh Him till Ull-ven aye Mand-en

'Theme's from William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" 'is pretty self explanatory...


But that's just me.

I would agree, but "Themes.." is their fourth album (or fifth if you count Vargnatt )

You missed out Kveldsjanger, which I pronounce:

Kvels-yang-er

No idea if that's right tho

 

[svenske kocken]

One pronounciation worse than the other.

And it´s Kveldssanger, nothing else.

 

[Kveldssanger]

I thought that by now you would have learnt how to spell it..... It's Kveldssanger, not Kveldsjanger....

 

[airman]

Dim-moo Bore-gear....I'm certain

No it´s not.

-D (self explanatory)

-I(like in "in")

-mm(like in huMble)

-U( it´s like OU in "cOUld" or "dU" in swedish)

-B (self explanatory)

-O(like in "on")

-R( these are harsh R´s)

-G(like in "Gang", not like Y like someone said)

-I(like in "in")

-R

DImm-U-bORG-IR

This is an icelandic name. The place called Dimmu Borgir
(dim boroughs, dark fortresses/formations/"buildings") is in NW Iceland. It´s a strange lava formation that is thought to be "evil". Big lava turds, that´s what they are. Hey maybe they should call themselves "Lava Turds"

And don´t even THINK you can pronounce Björk right!

... B´coz you can´t

 

[Gleemonex]

airman, you're quite good at these things.

Björk, rhymes with jerk

 

[airman]

not quite but it´s funnier that way

actually ö is pronounced like in the british "sIr"
but the harsh r and k form a sound which is unpronouncable for most of ye , (except for maybe some germans, dutch or finns)

 

[Gleemonex]

Airman dear, no need to explain it further, i AM a fellow icelander

Það er samt alltaf jafn fyndið að sjá aðra íslendinga á svona erlendum message boardum Góðan daginn!

 

[phon1c]

i wanna know how to pronounce Björk now...

 

[ControlledChaos]

icelandic looks cool..