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[Aklyon]

Darvi is so sad
Cthulhu is being a jerk
He will pay for it

You messed up line two. It had 8 syllables, not 7.

Cthulhu only has 2 syllables afaik.

It sounds like three.

[Darvi]

Depends on how you pronounce it then.

Anyways, I got a bunch of Sci-fi novels tha put together are bigger than my head. Should keep me busy for a week

[ein]

I like to think of it as being pronounced as a weird sort of slurping sound that's produced by flicking your tongue while blowing out.
This has two syllables: tongue out (kþl) and tongue in (lh).

[Darvi]

You too? Heh.

[fqllve]

Bad ein! No IPA in the happy thread. :Þ

Actually no, thorns are awesome. But that's a whole other topic.

That's about how I usually pronounce it, but the one I hear most often is something like (kt-too-loo)

[The Merchant Of Menace]

All I ever hear it as now is Cfoofoo

[iceball3]

Chuhth-thu-lu was how I pronounced it.
Anyways, I'm actually rping in LoLD again, yay.~

[Urist Imiknorris]

All I ever hear it as now is Cfoofoo

[RedWarrior0]

Has someone started "Ultimate Chess" in FG&R yet? Not being the one who does, but it would be awesome.

[breadbocks]

It's Ca-Thoo-Loo.

[Rilder]

I always seem to end up pronouncing it "Chew-The-Loo" heh

[ein]

Studying Finnish and opettaa came up.
Then I got this stuck in my head and had trouble focusing on the vocabulary.

[RedWarrior0]

RE: Cthulhu's pronunciation

How do I pronounce our President Elect's name?

There are basically three different pronunciations that I have heard, other pronunciations being slight modifications on these.

The most commonly heard pronunciation is that suggested by Chaosium, makers of the "Call of Cthulhu" roleplaying game. On the back of many of their gaming products is printed the phrase, "Can you say kuh-THOOL-hoo?". (I pronounce it kuh-THOO-lhoo.)

Another pronunciation is that used by several Lovecraftian scholars. This form is based on Lovecraft's revision tales where Cthulhu is often referred to as "Clooloo" or "Clulu". Unfortunately, this form does not have a sound representing the "th" combination.

Lastly there is a compromise between these two. The "h" sounds are aspirated, thus the "th" is not as in "them" or "thin", but two separate sounds. The first four letters of the word are run together in something like a sneezing sound, "K't'hoo-lhoo".

According to H. P. Lovecraft:
"The actual sound - as nearly as human organs could imitate it or human letters record it - may be taken as something like Khlul'-hloo, with the first syllable pronounced gutturally and very thickly."

"The best approximation one can make is to grunt, bark, or cough the imperfectly formed syllables Cluh-Luh with the tip of the tongue firmly affixed to the roof of the mouth. That is, if one is a human being. Directions for other entities are naturally different."

From these quotes (taken from Lovecraft's letters), one might conclude that the second pronunciation mentioned above is the most correct of the three.

[iceball3]

Leave this looping for as long as possible, then you win.

[Ochita]

Ahhhh.... I need more mind breaking stuff.