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| Maou
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|  "Re(1):YES"
, posted Sat 28 Jun 00:00
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there were a lot in that game. Cecil (CESS sill), Kain (KAI ... n), Rydia (RYE dia).
Cecil was written in Japanese セシル (hope that's readable) se-shi-ru, mimicing the more British pronounciation of Cecil, cess-sill. Cain (Kain US for reasons of clumsy translation) is written with Japanese kana カイン , or ka-i-n, pronounced "kai n." However, neither of these cases should really change your pronouciation: se-shi-ru happens to be the way that Japan will standardly write the name Cecil; just as Sarah/Sara, while normally pronounced "sera" in English, is always written "sa-ra" in Japanese. Say Cecil either way.
Cain's case, meanwhile, should, in English reference, still be prounced like sugar "cane" as per normal, despite the Japanese "kai n" sound. That's just because in Japanese the Biblical character is written the same way as the FF IV character. Whether it's a more correct approxiamation of Hebrew I can't say, but the point of the name is to parallel the Biblical character, and that's lost unless you pronounce it "Cain" as normal in English.
Rydia リディア , was meant to rhyme with Lydia, as close as Japanese can approximate it, anyway.
Maou
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| DarkZero
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| "Re(3):Ayla pronunciation" , posted Sun 29 Jun 10:25
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I think I don't see the relation. Why it would be such a great coincidence? What has "Clan of the Cave Bear" got to do with Star Wars?
(Note: I must say I haven't read that book  )
Well, the relation would be that the character from the book, which I'm told is quite popular SOMEWHERE even though I hadn't heard of it until recently, is a teenage cavegirl that's much smarter than her peers, which would fit because A) Ayla's a cavegirl, B) she's roughly teenage, and C) she's not a genius, but she's leaps and bounds above the others in the village. I said it could just be a coincidence because even though it seems to fit really well, the name references in most anime and Japanese video games usually aren't references to anything as recent as 1984, let alone to a semi-popular Western novel series. Then again, though, Square did make references to Star Wars in Crono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7, and I think one or two other games, which is both American and fairly recent (compared to names like "Sephiroth", at least).
If the name reference actually fit, it would give a reasonable justification for why the game's translators chose the "How the Hell do I pronounce that?" name "Ayla" instead of something that people don't have to ask each other about to figure out how it's pronounced.
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"Ayla pronunciation" 
why did you become a teacher? 
