{"id":883,"date":"2007-05-16T15:12:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T21:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2007\/05\/you-say-po-tay-to\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T15:12:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T21:12:28","slug":"you-say-po-tay-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/05\/you-say-po-tay-to.html","title":{"rendered":"You say po-tay-to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pronounced &#8230; Tay-los?&nbsp; Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently in the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmorpg.com\/gamelist.cfm\/setView\/videos\/gameID\/3\/videoId\/1054\/cPlayer\/qt\" target=\"_blank\">I9 Inventions Tutorial video<\/a>, the narrator pronounces <strong>Talos <\/strong>(as in the hero and, more importantly, the island named after him) as &#8220;Tay-los&#8221; &#8212; as opposed to &#8220;Tah-los&#8221; (like in &#8220;talon&#8221;) or even, for the Hungarians among you, &#8220;Tah-losh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After folks giggled over that on the boards &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=8279967\" target=\"_blank\">quoth Positron<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The video pronounces it right. I had to have Statesman (Jack) confirm it himself specifically for this vid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And it don&#8217;t get much more definitive than Posi quoting States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tay-los&#8221; &#8212; like &#8220;Pay-most.&#8221;&nbsp; Weird.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I <em>did <\/em>like this comment from SuperSean:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Well I don&#8217;t know who did the voice, but it was close enough to sounding like it shoulda started with &#8220;Hi&#8230;I&#8217;m Troy McClure! You might remember me from other City of Heroes training videos such as &#8216;Go. Hunt. KillSkulz!&#8217; and &#8216;How did I get in this blue cavern when I went in an office building?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pronounced &#8230; Tay-los?&nbsp; Yikes. Evidently in the new I9 Inventions Tutorial video, the narrator pronounces Talos (as in the hero and, more importantly, the island named after him) as &#8220;Tay-los&#8221; &#8212; as opposed to &#8220;Tah-los&#8221; (like in &#8220;talon&#8221;) or even, for the Hungarians among you, &#8220;Tah-losh.&#8221; After folks giggled over that on the boards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/05\/you-say-po-tay-to.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You say po-tay-to &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}