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SFIV: Are You Able to Pronounce "Abel?"

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  • 05-04-2010 8:36pm
    #1
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭


    Just something I'm curious about. In the game, "Abel" is pronounced differently in different places and I'm wondering which one has stuck.

    It sounds like "cable" when M. Bison says it during Abel's ending sequence.

    It sounds like "cobble" when Abel is declared the winner in a vs. match.

    I don't want any friendships to be destroyed over this, now.

    How do you pronounce "Abel?" 15 votes

    Rhymes with "cable"
    0% 0 votes
    Rhymes with "cobble"
    100% 15 votes


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    D4RK ONION
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    What about rhymes with Babble? That's the one the game uses!


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    Dunjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    D4RK ONION wrote: »
    What about rhymes with Babble? That's the one the game uses!

    Hmm. It sounded more like "cobble" to me when I was replaying it in my brain. Still does. Babblers should probably vote for that, since I can't change it now anyway!


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    Kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    It's pronounced Abel as in "able to do FADC". Thats the only real pronounciation of the name. The announcer just gets it wrong.

    Like they did with balrog in super turbo when the announcer calls him "BarLog". :p


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    Sisko
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    Yeah I'd pronounce it different almost every time I say it,

    Able, Ah-Bell , Ahbul ...


    Tinja should know the correct pronunciation since he's french :D


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    Ramza
    Registered Users Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭Ramza


    Sisko wrote: »
    Tinja should know the correct pronunciation since he's french :D

    Abel is a Hebrew name AFAIK

    And I pronounce it like it's meant to be, like the word able in English


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    Sisko
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    Yeah Kane and Abel and all that but the french might have their own way of pronouncing it just like English can sometimes give words a new pronunciation even if its from another country of origin


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    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,707 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    The game was created in Japan, so it's obviously supposed to be "Aber".


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    Speed Boat
    Registered Users Posts: 627 ✭✭✭Speed Boat


    I agree with Kiki.


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    Orim
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Orim


    I pronounce it "Dave"

    EDIT : Or I pronounce it "Shiro"

    Depends on my mood.


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    Scavenger XIII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭Scavenger XIII


    Kirby wrote: »
    Like they did with balrog in super turbo when the announcer calls him "BarLog". :p

    Welcome to Engrish.

    As for abel, I go with able. That's how my RE teacher pronounced it and that's probably what they were going for.


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    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    I remember before the SF2 anime came out in 1994 people pronouncing Ryu as Righ-u. A lot of Americans pronounce it as Ree-u. It's actually closer to just Roo.


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    Dunjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    Glad to see that most people pronounce it correctly. I figured that, since the incorrect version would be heard most often (unless you're one of those people who obsessively compulsively passes the game over and over with Abel), it might have caught on.


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    Jumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    The game was created in Japan, so it's obviously supposed to be "Aber".

    ROR!


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