Windy Canyon: how did you pronounce it?

[fergo]

So... what with the current strip, I've been wondering...

While reading, did you (in your head or out loud) call it Windy Canyon (as in, full of wind) or Windy Canyon (as in, winding).

I didn't even think about the latter possibility, I always assumed it was the former. What about you guys?

[qwertyu63]

Just like you, I "heard" it as with wind. I never even considered the other option.

[Thrar]

Same, never thought about the other either. I'd use the word 'winding' for that.

[sam79]

Agreed; the weather-realted pronunciation was the only one that occured to me.

[Quild]

Not knowing the second meaning of "windy" and because I totally expected wind in a canyon in the desert, I didn't even wonder about which "windy" it was :D.

But even if I had known the second meaning (winding), I wouldn't expect a canyon to be a maze, or bother to specify that a canyon is windy (should I say "winding"?).
I had in mind something like "Thousands needles" in WoW (before Cataclysm).

[Nimrod's Son]

(as in, winding).
You mean like winding a baby? :smalltongue:

[Grey Watcher]

I always assumed windy, as in large volumes of air moving. Though sometime around the time the Order-minus-Vaarsuvius left the palace in Tyrinaria, someone posted a thread where they mentioned both possibilities. Turns he out that guy was right twice!

[Goosefarble]

Christ, this is a confusing thread. It's like the four candles sketch all over again.

[ella ventic]

Definitely the weather-related one. I don't know that a place would be named "Windy Canyon" if the meaning was supposed to be "twisty-turny canyon." I think that would be "Winding Canyon."

...The word "canyon" is starting to look really weird to me now.

[Lynn]

I assumed the canyon was full of wind and, in my head I always pronounced it wee-n-dee simply because, English being a foreign language, to me I wasn't aware there were different pronunciations and meanings for this word.

I still don't know the alternate pronunciation, and now I doubt I even made the correct meaning/sound association in the first place. Would someone enlighten me please?

[fergo]

The alternative is windy meaning 'meandering'. It's pronounced WINE - DY.

[Lynn]

thanks :smallbiggrin:

[The Succubus]

"Meaty Storyline Goodness"

[Conuly]

The winding version of windy isn't a word in my dialect (we just say winding, or twisty), so it would never have occurred to me.

[ThePhantasm]

I pronounce it ARKLE-larkle-jurgle-FLARG Canyon.






It must be my accent.

[Squirrel_Token]

Wow, I'm surprised to find that I was apparently the only one who thought it was a "winding" canyon (as in lots of twists and turns). The weather-related one didn't even occur to me :smallredface:

[Sethala]

Weather-related for me. Didn't consider the other possibility, until I read that strip.

[Fish]

I must be among the few who didn't see it either way (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12381551&postcount=1). I asked in December which meaning was meant.

[Alagaesian]

I thought it was the "win-dee" canyon before this strip. At the beginning of reading the current strip, however, I noticed the characters describing how maze-like the canyon was and realized that it could easily be pronounced as "wine-dee" canyon. I thought this was a stealth pun by the Giant and proceeded to read through the rest of the strip, where the pun became decidedly less stealthy.

[Porthos]

+11 on the weather related one. Though in hindsight, given what we know about Girard, the alternate pronounciation should have been obvious as an option. :smallannoyed:

[Anarion]

I think the reason most of us thought it was windy meaning large amount of air was because of Durkon's commments in comic 673 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0673.html). He mentions that he can't use wind walk because the desert winds are too strong, so we're already set up to be aware that this continent has high winds once you venture outside the cities.

[Lappy9001]

My girlfriend's name is Wendy...this has been an interesting thread for me to read....

[Porthos]

My girlfriend's name is Wendy...this has been an interesting thread for me to read....

Heh. You mentioning that just made me think of women's names in regard to Windy. Which in turn reminded me of this awesome song (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy).

Yet another interpetation to add to the list. :smallamused:

[Psyren]

I've been pronouncing it windy this whole time. Should I have been pronouncing it windy?

[Porthos]

I've been pronouncing it windy this whole time. Should I have been pronouncing it windy?

No, you should have been pronouncing it "Throatwobbler Mangrove". :smallamused:

[Emperor Flumph]

Looks like I'm the only person who read it whine-dee. I guess something's wrong with me.

EDIT: Sorry, Squirrel Token. I missed your post. We're both freaks.

[teratorn]

EDIT: Sorry, Squirrel Token. I missed your post. We're both freaks.

Third one here. Though I did think of both, I expected it to be somewhat misleading to the readers and to refer to a maze.

[Gift Jeraff]

I first read it as win-dee, then someone in an older thread said something about it being winding, and I figured that would be more appropriate for an illusionist's hangout.

[MyNameIsSecret]

While reading, did you (in your head or out loud) call it Windy Canyon (as in, full of wind) or Windy Canyon (as in, winding).

Full of wind. I never actually contemplated the other option, it always came out as windy to me.

[Absol197]

I think we're asking the wrong question here. The real question is, when Elan says: "It is! It's the Windy Windy Canyon!" Which "Windy" is air movement?

And by that token, which one does Vaarsuvius say first? Think about it.

[Shiim]

Pertaining to the movement of air. Although the twisting 'windy' joke did amuse me ^_^

[martianmister]

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[archon_huskie]

Windy i heard it as the wind.


Canyons are carved by rivers over thousands of years. they go as the water flows. Thus I would never have concidered a Canyon to be full of passages.

[Goosefeather]

I read it as 'windy' as in 'wind'.
You know, like in the sentence, 'did you get wind of the fact this post is a wind-up?'

[Squirrel_Token]

Looks like I'm the only person who read it whine-dee. I guess something's wrong with me.

EDIT: Sorry, Squirrel Token. I missed your post. We're both freaks.

Huzzah freaks :smallbiggrin:

[Blas_de_Lezo]

I thought windy because of weather and strong winds through the cannion. But english is not my mother tongue and I didnt know the exitance of the other aception until now.

It looks that every native speaker thought the same too. Well, except two freaks. Scary... :smalleek:

[Icedaemon]

Win-dye canyon - I assume that the key to entering the fortress proper will require correctly placing dyed pennants in a mad puzzle.

[fergo]

Well, that's a new one :smalltongue:. And you may yet be proven right :smallwink:.

[Hironomus]

Heh. You mentioning that just made me think of women's names in regard to Windy. Which in turn reminded me of this awesome song (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy).

Yet another interpetation to add to the list. :smallamused:

This is the interpretation I automatically assumed upon reading "windy canyon".
:smalltongue:

[Kish]

I pronounce it ARKLE-larkle-jurgle-FLARG Canyon.
This one. text

[archon_huskie]

Now I can't stop pronouncing it the other way!

[Onyavar]

I thought of both possibilities when I saw the name first. Though I mostly thought of a wind-y valley, as with "wind".
However, it was new to me that the pronounciation is different, I learn something every other day by reading OotS. :smallbiggrin:

Aaaand this puts a new stone in the path of translation to german (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4972), even when the two words are almost similar... A "windy, windy canyon" is a "gewundener/windungsreicher, windiger Canyon" - (curve=Windung/wind=Wind).
Sometimes I think the Giant takes pleasure in finding new and exciting ways to make OotS untranslatable. :smallsigh: