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Customer By Web Form (Oleg Pavlovych) 05/12/2011 01:03 PM
Good day. I want to ask you the following- we have Russian- speaking forum www.shadowdale.ru, where we make non-official tranlations of published books and other info about Forgotten Realms. Now we make consolidated base of geography places, gods and names of organizations of FR. The question is- what pronunciation of goddes "Sune" is correct - Soo-nee (in Russian "") or Sune (in Russian ""). In russian official translations of all previous books there was the second variant. I understand, that, perhaps, you cannot answer this question because of not knowing Russian, but never the less, I"ll wait for your answer.
Hello Oleg,
Thanks for contacting us.
You are quite right, since I don't speak Russian I have little in the way of advice on how you should make this translation pronounceable in your language. Please forgive my ignorance in you language. My suggestion is to allow the pronunciation you used previously in past editions to carry over into you new translation work. After all, these names are fictional, and who knows, perhaps you would pronounce it differently in Russian than I do in English just as an Elf may pronounce it differently than a Dwarf! I hope this helps,
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