Correct pronunciation of 'Drengin' wanted

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Brad,

I've got to know: is it pronounced according to American English grammar rules as in "Drenjin", or is it the most likely alternative, "Drengun"? (I'm a Texan)
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
What's wrong with exactly as it's spelled? Dreng - in.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Dren-Jin.
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Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Interestingly, when I visited at Stardock and pronounced it Dreng-in I got corrected very quickly. I tried to find it in my dictionary, but the closest it comes is the word Dreng. which appears to predate the Norman conquest.

Brad,

Please share with us the source of the name "Drengin", if there is any. Is it from history?
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I made it up. The universe that galciv exists in has been something I've been working on for decades.

The Dren-jin (Drengin) are kind of like Klingons except much nastier (i.e. no "honor").
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Beeing italian I was so lucky I never had doubts about how to pronounce Drengin LOL
In italian "g" is soft otherwise would had been "gh"
Sometimes beeing limited helps... ;p LOL
Can you belive we don't have KJYWX in our standard grammar? :)

Brad, why not to add some speach presentation of the races as intro? Would clean up doubts like this and be marketing effective...
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
That would really be something. Perhaps a voice-over during the intro. The three ladies I met when I visited Stardock (Cari, Angie, and the receptioninst (I never did catch her name)) have nice voices.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Gherardo, ciao! sono in Bologna. But I don't think Italian is a good guide to "drengin". There isn't a single word in Italian with "eng" in it, apart from English ones, I don't think! At least, I couldn't find any.

Well, if "drengin", is a romance word, then the closest in English is "malengin", which comes from mal(evil)+engine(contrivance). It means evil machination, ill-intent, fraud, deceit, guile, but hasn't been used much since the 1700s.

There's also the word "dreng", pronounced with a hard G, comes from old norse word for "young man". A dreng is a free tenant (a technical term for his position in the northumbrian feudal society). And "-in" wouldn't be an unusual plural for such a word.

So to answer the pronunciation, we need to know: are the drengin a race of evil manipulators (in which case soft G), or are they upstanding individualistic freemen (in which case hard G)?

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Lucian
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
You quoted

The Dren-jin (Drengin) are kind of like Klingons except much nastier (i.e. no "honor").

Wow in my dreams Stardock got the rights to develop the Star Trek verison of Galatic Civilizations from Paramount !!
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
Quote from Frogboy:
"I made it up. The universe that galciv exists in has been something I've been working on for decades"

Ever considered doing something more with it? Expanding into other areas, or let others play with it?

From the perspective of a rpg designer, this gives me some very interesting thoughts and ideas.
But then again, whenever I see a great thing, I can't help thinking about licenses, rpg versions or Trading Collectible Card Game version :)

/Flemming
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Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
There's no receptionist. Kim handles Sales with an iron fist.
Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
Admiral Nakor wrote:
"There's no receptionist. Kim handles Sales with an iron fist."

eh, was that an answer to me? ;)

/Flemming

Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
DOH
Lol - thanks Midnight Louie :)
Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top
Kris,

So can Kim, Cari, and/or Angie be convinced to do voice-overs? Maybe you, Pat, Scott, and/or Brad could do some as well?