How do you Pronounce "Tulpa"

[TheBlackWizard]

 

It's such a subtle difference but I guess you're right.

 

And the plural is obviously Tail-pay, good thing everyone pronounces that the same way.

Of course, who doesn't pronounce it as "tul-pay"?

...

I MEAN

 

TAIL-PAY...

 

I 

 

PRONUNCE IT AS TAIL-PAY

 

I pronounce it as tul-pay ;-;

[Lucilyn]

same lol even though there's no reason to pronounce ae as ay

 

except I think some words ending with ae are pronounced ay..

 

and nobody knows how to pronounce ae for real because it was pronounced E and I at different time periods in latin...

 

I think I/eye is the commonly accepted one? and the commonly accepted tulpa-plural is both! Just say tulpas if you're not already attached to ae tho!

[jean-luc]

Wait so you're saying the correct plural pronounciation should be tulp-EYE?

[The-Syreth-Clan]

Definitely tool-pa.

[vtk]

TULL-puh

Tull as in Jethro Tull

Puh as in Pug (just drop the g sound)

 

I haven't quite settled on a plural yet but in speech it feels weird to say tulpae

[Lucilyn]

Wait so you're saying the correct plural pronounciation should be tulp-EYE?

 

like, I guess you could say tulp-E, because.. uh.. "E" pronunciation of ae is really old and so is the "word" tulpa? Even though that's not how language works on like fifteen levels?

 

idk we just read tulpae as tull-pay but there's more than a few reasons to just say tulpas instead

[GrayTheCat]

I'm shamelessly bumping this thread because I remembered it and it's nostalgic.

 

I used to pronounce Tulpa "Tool-pa", but after this thread I started saying "Tull-pah". The plural "Tulpas" I think sounds better when using the latter and not the former.

[Aijada]

We are solidly in the camp of tool-pah/tool-pay, but these poll results are fascinating.

I don't even understand how people ended up with toll-pah, though my host is priming some sort of lecture on antique linguistics [foszae, hovering]: "whan that aprill with his shoures soote..."

 

It seems like any time i've ever heard it said aloud, it's more like tull-puhz, rhymes with 'skull fuzz.'

 

Also, this debate really needs to be translated properly into the IPA.

[ShadowsDancing]

TULL-puh

Tull as in Jethro Tull

Puh as in Pug (just drop the g sound)

 

 

 

That!

[Luminesce]

I never even considered you could pronounce it any other way. And while I'm technically just as against "tool-pa" as I am "tulpae", the pronunciation is a lot less one-sided of an argument, so I can't really say anything against it I guess. For the record, everyone I've ever heard say "Tulpa" out loud (that's like.. more than five people) said tull-puh.