Something went wrong. Try again later
    Follow

    Ryan Davis

    Person » credited in 9 games

    Ryan Davis was a GameSpot editor and co-founder of Giant Bomb. He was solely responsible for founding batmanbatmanbatman.com and cocainemountain.com, and went by the online nickname of "Taswell." Ryan passed away on July 3, 2013. He is gone but never forgotten. We love you, Ryan.

    Words Ryan pronounces weird...

    Avatar image for fr0br0
    fr0br0

    3255

    Forum Posts

    151

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 2

    User Lists: 0

    #1  Edited By fr0br0

    Ryan says words in some weird ass ways. This thread was made to keep a list of the words he has pronounced differently than what is displayed in the English dictionary.
     
    Sword - Original Pronunciation: "Sohrd" Ryan Pronunciation: "Sawohrd"
     
    Robot - Original Pronunciation: "Roh-bot" Ryan Pronunciation: "Roh-buht"
     
    Spiderman - Original Pronunciation: "Spahy-der-man" Ryan Pronunciation: "Spahy-der-mehn"
     
    Feel free to add on.

    Avatar image for breadfan
    breadfan

    6803

    Forum Posts

    11494

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 6

    User Lists: 12

    #2  Edited By breadfan

    Zombie - Zam-be

    Avatar image for griddler
    Griddler

    3374

    Forum Posts

    2865

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 6

    User Lists: 15

    #3  Edited By Griddler

    Huh. I always thought of him pronouncing 'robot as 'robit' and 'spiderman' as 'spidermin'

    Avatar image for alexander
    Alexander

    1760

    Forum Posts

    731

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 4

    #4  Edited By Alexander

    Niche can be said either way: /neesh, nitch/ but it just sounds damn odd when I hear /nitch/ and Ryan may be the only person I have ever heard say it that way.
     
    Also, I went to my bookshelf, got out my dictionary, looked up Spiderman and it's not there.

    Avatar image for eviltwin
    EvilTwin

    3313

    Forum Posts

    55

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #5  Edited By EvilTwin

    What is going on with your Spider-Man phonetic spelling? 

    Avatar image for eroticfishcake
    eroticfishcake

    7856

    Forum Posts

    7820

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 6

    #6  Edited By eroticfishcake

    Which state does Ryan come from anyway? I'm not so good with differentiating American accents.

    Avatar image for systech
    Systech

    4155

    Forum Posts

    2448

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 0

    #7  Edited By Systech

    He only does it to sound fresh. It's not any state's accent for crying out loud.

    Avatar image for valames
    Valames

    758

    Forum Posts

    5

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #8  Edited By Valames

    Lol, he just does it for fun.

    Avatar image for matthew
    matthew

    2156

    Forum Posts

    6577

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 10

    #9  Edited By matthew
    @eroticfishcake said:
    " Which state does Ryan come from anyway? I'm not so good with differentiating American accents. "
    I think both the big boys are natives of that state CA...
    Avatar image for origina1penguin
    Origina1Penguin

    3530

    Forum Posts

    2867

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 2

    #10  Edited By Origina1Penguin

    I'm pretty sure he purposely says words different.  Haven't you ever done that for fun?

    Avatar image for pause
    pause422

    6350

    Forum Posts

    16

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #11  Edited By pause422

    He does that purposely. Not for any other reason.

    Avatar image for fr0br0
    fr0br0

    3255

    Forum Posts

    151

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 2

    User Lists: 0

    #12  Edited By fr0br0
    @Alexander said:
    "

    Niche can be said either way: /neesh, nitch/ but it just sounds damn odd when I hear /nitch/ and Ryan may be the only person I have ever heard say it that way.
     
    Also, I went to my bookshelf, got out my dictionary, looked up Spiderman and it's not there.

    "
    In Fr0Br0's dictionary, Spiderman is the second word on the first page.
    Avatar image for eroticfishcake
    eroticfishcake

    7856

    Forum Posts

    7820

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 6

    #13  Edited By eroticfishcake

    Ah right. I was just wondering, not that I was going to generalise since I've heard of few Californians sound different.

    Avatar image for natetodamax
    natetodamax

    19464

    Forum Posts

    65390

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 32

    User Lists: 5

    #14  Edited By natetodamax

    Mario: Pronounced "mar-io", says "mayr-io"
     
    He only says those words those ways for the lulz

    Avatar image for themustachehero
    TheMustacheHero

    6647

    Forum Posts

    120

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 0

    #15  Edited By TheMustacheHero

    You suck with those pronunciation phonic spelling things.
     
    Br3adfan has it right, Robits, Zambies, Spidermins, sah-wards.

    Avatar image for milkman
    Milkman

    19372

    Forum Posts

    -1

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 2

    User Lists: 3

    #16  Edited By Milkman

    ...Guys...he does that on purpose. He knows how to pronounce words.

    Avatar image for themustachehero
    TheMustacheHero

    6647

    Forum Posts

    120

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 0

    #17  Edited By TheMustacheHero
    @Milkman said:
    " ...Guys...he does that on purpose. He knows how to pronounce words. "
    No one was denying this.
    Avatar image for milkman
    Milkman

    19372

    Forum Posts

    -1

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 2

    User Lists: 3

    #18  Edited By Milkman
    @TheMustacheHero said:
    " @Milkman said:
    " ...Guys...he does that on purpose. He knows how to pronounce words. "
    No one was denying this. "
    Some of the people in this thread seems to think he has some crazy Californian accent.
    Avatar image for ajamafalous
    ajamafalous

    13992

    Forum Posts

    905

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 9

    #19  Edited By ajamafalous

    Bat-min.

    Avatar image for seedofpower
    Seedofpower

    4138

    Forum Posts

    6866

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 3

    #20  Edited By Seedofpower
    @Milkman said:
    " @TheMustacheHero said:
    " @Milkman said:
    " ...Guys...he does that on purpose. He knows how to pronounce words. "
    No one was denying this. "
    Some of the people in this thread seems to think he has some crazy Californian accent. "
    California has an accent?
    Avatar image for citizenkane
    citizenkane

    10894

    Forum Posts

    29122

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 106

    #21  Edited By citizenkane

    His pronunciation of "robot" comes from Futurama.  It's what Zoidberg calls Bender.

    Avatar image for sjschmidt93
    sjschmidt93

    5014

    Forum Posts

    3236

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 37

    User Lists: 20

    #22  Edited By sjschmidt93

    I don't know about Ryan but John Davidson saying Mario annoys the fuck out of me!

    Avatar image for hazbazz
    HazBazz

    1924

    Forum Posts

    267

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 2

    #23  Edited By HazBazz

    I don't think he was the first to do it, but I stole his pronounciation of Pokemon. Pokemans!

    Avatar image for rhaknar
    Rhaknar

    6300

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 12

    #24  Edited By Rhaknar

    he pronounces Heihachi and Jun from tekken as HAIHAKI and YUN :P
     
    j/k, little bombcast joke

    Avatar image for thenamedone
    TheNamedOne

    17

    Forum Posts

    8

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 1

    #25  Edited By TheNamedOne
    @Seedofpower said:
    California has an accent? "


    Kinda, theres multiple but none are really hugely diffrent. Like Sufer dude is a California accent
    Avatar image for aegon
    Aegon

    7345

    Forum Posts

    104

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 3

    #26  Edited By Aegon

    Flower - Fleurrr

    Avatar image for warchief
    warchief

    680

    Forum Posts

    5

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 3

    #27  Edited By warchief

    Exec-u-ta-bull - Executable

    - sorry had to.

    Avatar image for benny
    Benny

    2009

    Forum Posts

    315

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 2

    Avatar image for herbiebug
    HerbieBug

    4228

    Forum Posts

    43

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    @Seedofpower

    said:

    California has an accent? "

    Kinda, theres multiple but none are really hugely diffrent. Like Sufer dude is a California accent

    Everybody who speaks a language of any kind anywhere in the world has an accent. It drives me crazy when I hear fellow Canadians or americans say they have "no accent".

    Avatar image for pezen
    Pezen

    2585

    Forum Posts

    14

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    After listening through all the E3 coverage, I came away more impressed with his dedication to the "when the rubber meets the road" saying.

    Avatar image for ch3burashka
    ch3burashka

    6086

    Forum Posts

    100

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 3

    Executable.

    Avatar image for fredchuckdave
    Fredchuckdave

    10824

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 2

    Muskegon, though he was right like 1 out of 5 tries or something (not the person who wrote in, I just live in Michigan; which pronounced by Ryan Davis might be Meesheegan).

    Avatar image for scrawnto
    Scrawnto

    2558

    Forum Posts

    83

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 2

    His pronunciation of "robot" comes from Futurama. It's what Zoidberg calls Bender.

    That's actually how Isaac Asimov pronounced robot. It's just a Yiddish accent applied to the word (Asimov grew up speaking English and Yiddish).

    Avatar image for niceanims
    Niceanims

    1754

    Forum Posts

    12

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #35  Edited By Niceanims

    Wyvern

    Avatar image for mystyr_e
    Mystyr_E

    1475

    Forum Posts

    24

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 93

    User Lists: 4

    I have a feeling the "suword" is from Dragon Age: Origins

    Avatar image for billyhoush
    billyhoush

    1273

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 3

    User Lists: 4

    Ryan is secretly Canadian.

    Avatar image for gaspower
    GaspoweR

    4904

    Forum Posts

    272

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 2

    #38  Edited By GaspoweR

    Which state does Ryan come from anyway? I'm not so good with differentiating American accents.

    I believe he also grew up in California, like Jeff.

    Avatar image for tracerace11
    tracerace11

    317

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 3

    #39  Edited By tracerace11

    To hear these pronunciations one more time live....

    Avatar image for liquidprince
    LiquidPrince

    17073

    Forum Posts

    -1

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 1

    User Lists: 5

    Grenawds.

    Avatar image for devilzrule27
    devilzrule27

    1293

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    To hear these pronunciations one more time live....

    :(

    Avatar image for hermes
    hermes

    3000

    Forum Posts

    81

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 7

    I like to think Ryan would yell at me for it, but I believe Will's pronunciation of "executable" was correct.

    Avatar image for mushir
    Mushir

    2630

    Forum Posts

    3328

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 4

    User Lists: 2

    I liked how Ryan pronounced "interesting". He didn't say "intresting". He valued the letter "e".

    This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:

    Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live.

    Comment and Save

    Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.