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Words Ryan Pronounces With a "Verbal Flourish"

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We all know that Ryan's spicy sentence enhancers make his speech worth paying attention to. Here are the words within my most limited memory that have received an oral trademark from Ryan Davis.

This list will now include all the etymology behind these pronunciations. If you have an idea for why it's pronounced the way it is, drop a comment and I'll credit you in the list. Your guess is as good as mine.

Note I'm a tad behind on updating this. I will be more vigilant!

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Deusoma

Fuck, Ryan Davis. RIP, big guy, your verbal flourishes are just one of the many reasons you'll never be forgotten.

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Pirates, guerrilla and hurricane all seem like Ryan using the Spanish equivalents of those words, with varying degrees of success.

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if i gave you the IPA for every word would u put it on the list?

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Giant Bombcast 06-26-2012:

Query - "kwair-ee"

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Skylinders

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Nier Quick Look. 23 minutes and 30 seconds. "Path is blocked" is pronounced by Ryan in a flourishy manner.

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Ryan consistently pronounces Ubisoft as "Ooh-bee-soft". He very occasionally seems to remember that it is actually pronounced "Yoo-bee-soft", like in this week's podcast (7/19/2011).

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He probably says "piratas" on account of it's the Spanish word for pirates. 

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In the Garshasp Quick Look he says "camera" as "calm-ah-rah". It's at around 6:10

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Number 16. It's a reference from Kindergarten Cop.  Arnold- I have a headache. kid- maybe it's a tumor.  Arnold-AAAGH IT IS NOT A TOO-MAH. IT'S NOT A TOO-MAH

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I don't know if it's been mentioned but I think the "Min" prefix is a call-back to when carrie gouskous said "Ray-min" once on a podcast instead of 'Rayman', without a hint of irony, and was subsequently mocked thenceforth for doing so.

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#41 might be a reference to 1943's Warner Bros. short Falling Hare starring Bugs Bunny.  

  ...at the 1:30ish mark, Bugs pronounces 'Diabolical Sabotage' and I've long adapted that pronunciation, as such whenever Ryan uses sabotage all I can think of is this old cartoon.
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Pretty interesting unique list.

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Recent catches:
Difficulty lee-vill
Aston Mar-teen
3D (possibly "trays dee" I didn't note exactly)

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This is awesome on so many levels.

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Best list!

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Such win. And true, too.

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The entomology for "Oh-Hi-ooo" might be a reference to the Neil Young "Four Dead in Ohio" song. 
 
Also, I might be mistaken but I think his pronunciation of nintendo might be more related to Mario than Iwata.

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Sonic Colours?

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I've been known to commonly use robit, Batmin, and zambie, ever since I started listening to the wonderful words of Ryan T. Davis.

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@W0lfbl1tzers said:

" I love this list but you have Pirates twice. 24 and 36. "

Woops! Thank you sir! Fixed it! 
 
@Brackynews: I've been wrestling with whether or not I should add this one. I will now, since you have created demand! Haha.
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This is just supoib.
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I love this list but you have Pirates twice. 24 and 36.

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Dude, I love this list.

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Saying "Neen-ten-doe" like Iwata is enough of a flourish in my book.
edit: Also Kah-Nah-Dah is historically accurate.

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Just a quick note - "robit" is also from Homestar Runner.

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@Diamond said:
" It's supposed to be 'You be soft'. "
This is suggestive.
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Dude you are missing how he says "barcelona", it's something like barfelona. Watch the wheelmen quicklook and see.

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@Phished0ne said:
" @Kevitte said:
" @DanielJW said:

" @Phished0ne said:

" now, start updating the list with possible reasons why he pronounces things that way...obviously "Frah-gee-lay" is a reference to A Christmas Story..right? "
I would love to if I had the slightest idea. I could post in user ideas, like yours and ColnelT's.   
This is obviously a fair bit after A Christmas Story but I'm pretty sure I remember Homer Simpson saying "frah-gee-lay" at some point (although that itself could be a reference to ACS). "
yeah well that point it just turns into a chain, Homer saying Frah-Gee-Lay would be a reference to ACS, so even if Ryan was referencing the simspons, in the end he would be referencing ACS......my head is going to explode.. "
To make this worse, both ACS and The Simpsons could be referencing an older use of this joke. Groucho Marx in  "Animal Crackers" from the 1930's. Mr. Davis is either an old soul, or he is the undead Groucho Marx
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It's supposed to be 'You be soft'.

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@natetodamax said:
" @Metal_Gear_Sunny said:
" @DanielJW said:
" @natetodamax said:
" Does him pronouncing Ubisoft "oobisoft" count? "
I wouldn't say so, because isn't that just how it's pronounced by the people in the studio? "
Yeah, that's the correct punctuation of the name.  "
I refuse to believe that. "
That's how it's pronounced. Look it up.
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@Metal_Gear_Sunny said:
" @DanielJW said:
" @natetodamax said:
" Does him pronouncing Ubisoft "oobisoft" count? "
I wouldn't say so, because isn't that just how it's pronounced by the people in the studio? "
Yeah, that's the correct punctuation of the name.  "
I refuse to believe that.
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@DanielJW said:
" @natetodamax said:
" Does him pronouncing Ubisoft "oobisoft" count? "
I wouldn't say so, because isn't that just how it's pronounced by the people in the studio? "
Yeah, that's the correct punctuation of the name. 
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@natetodamax said:
" Does him pronouncing Ubisoft "oobisoft" count? "
I wouldn't say so, because isn't that just how it's pronounced by the people in the studio?
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Does him pronouncing Ubisoft "oobisoft" count?

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Quick Look: Game Room for 08/18 featured one of my favourite verbal flourishes.... 'mans'.

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OMG good list,I loled at nr 16.
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Film - "Fil-um" - Clash of The Titans Quick Look, and I'm sure he's said it before.

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@onimonkii said:
" this week's bombcast: medal of honor was pronounced as medal of hah-nore "
Thank you! I must not have reached that point in the podcast yet, haha.
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this week's bombcast: medal of honor was pronounced as medal of hah-nore

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@ColonelT said:
" The origin of the "-min" must come from Superman: The Movie, and Marlon Brando's pronunciation of "Krypton" as "Kryp-TIN." Legend has it that Brando became fatigued during the delivery of a line and couldn't form the "-ton" without passing out, resulting in a "-tin" instead.  Ryan appears to have adopted it for other words, and I support him fully. "
i always assumed it was saying it like you would a last name. like the name Bateman, you don't say it bate-man, you say it bate-min. so like saying "oh this is my good friend Ron Spiderman", at least that's how it's always sounded to me.
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@Xeiphyer: Ah! I remember that fellow. But I still don't think that's it. In the movie they seem to put more emphasis on the "AY" in his name, whereas Ryan drops it to an "ah".
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@DanielJW: The girls pimp was named 'Upgrayedd' =P Just a guess though
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@Xeiphyer said:
" For the Upgrade one, could that be a reference to that Idiocracy movie? "
I've seen Idiocracy, but I can't see where you're getting that from. Is there a specific quote in the movie?
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For the Upgrade one, could that be a reference to that Idiocracy movie?

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@Kagamine said:
" Multi-pra-ya "
Updated. But out of curiosity, where does he say it like that? 
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Multi-pra-ya

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@Crescendo1897 said:
" Needs segue = Seh-Goo-ey  GDC 2010 day one "
Thank you, sir! Update incoming. 
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Needs segue = Seh-Goo-ey 
 
GDC 2010 day one