I never played Civilization myself. 
Harold Macmillan, who learned Latin at the beginning of the twentieth century, is said to have remarked to his biographer, "I always thought of the Romans as being rather serious people; now, since the new pronunciation came in, one suddenly realises that they were just a lot of excitable Italians after all!"Akela dixit:What do you think of pronunciation? It thought The tones sounded Italian to me, while the base - classical. Is that just me?
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Hi! I googled "civilization v latin". I guess I was egomaniacal enough to seek discussion about my own work.Akela dixit:Seriously? If so, we are glad to have you here
May I ask you how did you find this conversation so quickly?
Classical pronunciation is what I learned for five years in the French Lycée where I got my secondary education. That's where I learned hard Cs and Vs prounced like Ws. Mind you, I didn't pronounce everything as I learned it there. Aside from those sounds, I learned a heavily French-sounding form of Latin; stress always landed on the final syllable, and Rs were pronounced at the back of the mouth (the R of French, German and Modern Hebrew, for example) instead of being rolled at the front. (For an example of this, look up the song "Rosa" by Jacques Brel on YouTube to hear what the first declension sounds like.) So I amended this with rolled Rs and properly-placed (more or less) syllable accentuation.Nikolaos dixit:Despite what we pointed out (I think the longer Es are a quite small concern, and the accenting of habeas didn't even occur to me... I've been making the same mistake), I am impressed by your voicing. I was especially surprised that you used the Classical pronunciation instead of Ecclesiastic - I bet that, in itself, might garner a small amount of criticism from people who don't know of anything but the Ecclesiastic system, but that's no matter of concern
This is what the director asked of me. My first instinct was to be bombastic and emperor-like, but I was told the character should sound supremely arrogant, as if I were annoyed that I have to waste my precious time talking to other world leaders.Nikolaos dixit:I like the calm and laid-back edge to the voice - it kind of gives an air of "We both know that I'm better than you in every way, barbarian"
Yes, there are a lot more lines! Be warned, however, I've played Civ IV, and I can tell you that Civlization games are a massive timesuck!Nikolaos dixit:
We at the Latin Forum treat you, Émile Khordoc, as a Caesar and not "just a voice actor that happens to understand the Civilization games and speak Latin."[i:1sjt51vw]Sid Meier's Civilization V[/i] manual dixit:
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I also recognize the voice of Catherine the Great, she's a Russian instructor at McGill University. I am honoured and humbled.Iohannes Aurum dixit:We at the Latin Forum treat you, Émile Khordoc, as a Caesar and not "just a voice actor that happens to understand the Civilization games and speak Latin."
Lusuri te salutamus.Emile dixit:I am honoured and humbled.Iohannes Aurum dixit:We at the Latin Forum treat you, Émile Khordoc, as a Caesar and not "just a voice actor that happens to understand the Civilization games and speak Latin."
Based on my own experience, the phonology and pronunciation are left up to the voice actor. By the way, I also did the voice of the Romans in Civ IV. I don't know if you were including me among the "stupid voices"...voxlarsi dixit:
My voice sounds quite different there because the recording director (David Lipes, who recorded the dialogue for both games) insistently told me to bark out my lines as wildly as possible, in contrast with the laconic Augustus. Unfortunately, I'm responsible for at least one error there (saying "praesti" instead of the invariable adverb "praesto").
The last-minute recording on Civ IV, as I mentioned, was the result of a last-minute decision to use Latin instead of Italian, and is not standard. The Civ V recording, in fact, was done a whole year and a half before the release.Iohannes Aurum dixit:
Don't worry - your latin was fineEmile dixit:
(I liked the calmer voice better than the barking out-thing, though). But I was less content about for instance the Vikings of Civ IV. I had imagined they would use old Norse; instead it sounded like some sort of a funny dialect of Western Norway 
If there is an expantion coming, I'm sure the Vikings will be part of it - and hopefully in Norse this time Even worse than crappy Norwegian for the Vikings, I imagine :shock:Emile dixit:
