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Re:"Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator, Google Had Tol... by mock-possum on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:29PM (#41571014)
Ooh this is fun trivia - originally dragons had a hard time with human names, so it became a tradition for dragon riders (particularly males) to adopt the dragon’s pronunciation as an honorific. So “Simon” becomes “S’mon.”

You say it with a bit of a slur - suhMON or fuhLAX - where the first syllable is not only unemphasized but uttered as quickly as possible then slurred into the next. F’lar really is just “fuhLAR”

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