I have two main characters with the names Vénadan and Arruén for use in a totally zero research sword & sorcery story. Keep accents or drop accents? Or keep accent on Vénadan because it’s an atypical stress and he’d actually have an accent on it in the “original language” and leave it out on Arruén, or drop accent on Vénadan and keep it on Arruén because Arruén is the one more likely to be mispronounced by an English speaker as “a ruin”?
consultation
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grassthatchedhut said:
I would keep it on Arruén but drop it on Venadan, but I know that I stress words oddly since I’m ESL and Westerner mileage might vary here…
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lifecrystals said:
I definitely wouldn’t keep both — Venadan seems to have more direct importance — and since it starts with a V, is lengthy and very consonant-vowel-consonant, it’ll hold up to memory on its own, whereas Arruén would be harder to remember.
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