How do you pronounce “Mun?”

[Pthigrivi]

  On 4/22/2018 at 7:05 AM, The Aziz said:

I have two different u's (u and ó) to pronounce within my language plus one English oo, only difference between them is their length..

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Which language is that?

@bonyetty Haha that's great. I think the same vowel can be achieved by sayin Mun in a scottish accent, which probably also isnt a coincidence. 

[The Aziz]

  On 4/22/2018 at 1:20 PM, Pthigrivi said:

Which language is that?

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Polish.

Going lil' bit off-topic, it also has two 'h's (h and ch, both sound almost the same, so far the only person I know that can hear the difference is myself) two ż (rz and ż, it sounds more or less like J in 'je suis")... Yeah good luck with that.

[FlyingPete]

"Mün" using German phonetics. Because that's how some Kerbals scrawled it on the crashed ship.

So not quite "Moon" and not quite "Munn"

[RealKerbal3x]

Mün. As in, muhn.

[Daveroski]

M O O N spells Mun!

 

[Gargamel]

  On 4/22/2018 at 7:24 PM, Daveroski said:

M O O N spells Mun!

 

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Ok... that one made me smile. 

[Daveroski]

  On 4/23/2018 at 4:15 AM, Gargamel said:

Ok... that one made me smile. 

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I doubt many will get the reference.

EDIT: On second thoughts, I understand it has been on TV so maybe more will.

Edited April 23, 2018 by Daveroski

[blakemw]

I pronounce it like option 1 though I think it's meant to be option 3.

But it's nice to clearly distinguish the RSS Moon and the KSP Mun.

[KSK]

Not sure how that umlaut actually affects pronunciation but I go with option one for satellite bodies in general and option two for the specific case of  Kerbin's largest satellite. In other words the Mun (pronounced to rhyme with soon) is a mun (pronounced to rhyme with bun) of Kerbin. Likewise Ike is a mun of Duna.

[Nils277]

I always pronounce it like the third option: Mün [myːn]

[Tyko]

I use "moon". Not because "it's easy" as your vote option suggests, but because it's the way I learned it from watching Scott Manley videos. He was the first person I ever heard pronounce it. He does add a bit of a flourish to the "u" sometimes, but his pronunciation is a lot closer to "soon" than "fun"

[HeliosPh0enix]

  On 4/23/2018 at 2:05 PM, Tyko said:

I use "moon". Not because "it's easy" as your vote option suggests, but because it's the way I learned it from watching Scott Manley videos. He was the first person I ever heard pronounce it. He does add a bit of a flourish to the "u" sometimes, but his pronunciation is a lot closer to "soon" than "fun"

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I would agree with that. I watched his entire Interstellar Quest when I first started playing KSP, so his accent is kind of ingrained in my brain when it comes to pronouncing things in KSP. I tend to say it almost like “Moon”, but with a shorter, more clipped sound on the “oo” so its almost like a “ü”. 

[NSEP]

I pronounce it the way Scott Manley does, maybe a bit exaggerated.

They did the ''ü'' thing because it looks super cool and metal, but it isn't pronounced with an ''ü'', apparently. I can't directly confirm my statement.

[adsii1970]

Mün, as it was originally called.

[Hans Dorn]

It's spelled "Mun" but it's pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove".

[Jetpackmaniac]

Moon. It’s easy to remember and I like it better than mun. 

[Gargamel]

  On 4/23/2018 at 7:18 AM, Daveroski said:

I understand it has been on TV so maybe more will.

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25 years ago... longer than (I'm guessing) the mean age of the average KSP player....   But as much as I love the book, I don't know if I'd remember it without hearing it in Bill Fagerbakke's voice...  Which coincidentally is Patrick from SpongeBob...

[MaverickSawyer]

I remember the days when the inner natural satellite of Kerbin was spelled Mün in-game.

*sighs*

Then some uppity youngsters had to and get lazy and swapped the umlaut for a "u".  

[razark]

How do I pronounce "Mun"?

Properly, of course¹.

 

 

¹And anyone who pronounces it differently from me is obviously wrong, evil, and a bad person that doesn't deserve to play KSP at all.

[Gargamel]

  On 4/25/2018 at 1:58 AM, MaverickSawyer said:

I remember the days when the inner natural satellite of Kerbin was spelled Mün in-game.

*sighs*

Then some uppity youngsters had to and get lazy and swapped the umlaut for a "u".  

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That's what I thought!  Coulda sworn I'd seen it written like that in game before...

And the other day I got to talking about Lunar eclipses with some co workers.   Except I kept calling them Munar eclipses.   20 minutes goes by before one of the confusedly asks why I was calling it munar instead of lunar.   That's a tough one to explain, when my knowledge of them should imply I know what they are called....

[releansol]

Mün *german style*

Müüüüüüüüün 

[Triop]

I always read Mun with Scott Manley's voice in my head.