Pedro's Point

[DanielH]

*blinks in confusion*

Oh Boots was that parahuman. I read that as the Silmaril Materian Bell

[Ezra]

It's a little confusing that Alicorn has two characters who go by Boots.

[Alicorn]

Sorry about that.

[Aestrix]

I mean, it's ultimately your character, and all Jedi don't live up to my model of how Jedi function. There are different groups within the Jedi Order, and they disagree about stuff sometimes. If you want him to be a Jedi Master, he can be.

That being said, I don't define caring about people and wanting the best for them as empathy. Specifically I meant empathy not in the way that you want what's best for everyone, but in the way that you can sit down and think about how other people think about things. His own model works fine, and he can even sincerely want the best for everyone around him within it, but he does not strike me as the type of person to stop and go, 'Okay, so, this is what it's like in their culture, and this is how they think, and the values and thoughts are different from mine but that doesn't make them any less valid.' When I say self centered, I don't mean he only cares about himself, I mean his value system is based heavily around what he personally thinks.

But again, the Jedi are not all the same, my interpretation of Jedi is not the only one, and the EU (Sorry, Star Wars Legends) is a vast, twisted, often contradictory web. Take this with a grain of salt. Or maybe like, a salt shaker.

[pedromvilar]

That makes sense, Tobias definitely does not have the thing.

Also, EU?

[Shoal]

how is Sadde pronounced? How many syllables does it have? is the e silent or pronounced? What does the a rhyme with? Are both d's pronounced separately? Are they like the welsh dd?

[DanielH]

Extended Universe, though it's also true of the European Union

I believe it’s like English “SAW day”, IPA /ˈsade/

Edit: Yeah, that’s close to what Pedro said. Although I’m curious about the “closest” part; how is it different?

[Throne3d]

I'm assuming it's a slightly clipped "ay" sound, more like the Spanish or Italian 'e'. (Also I wouldn't describe "SAH" as being "SAW", at least not in my accent? I'd pronounce the 'a' like /æ/ rather than /ɔː/, which is how I'd be inclined to pronounce those transcriptions.)

[DanielH]

I would pronounce SAW with an /ɔ:/ and SAH with an /a/; I went with SAW even though it wasn't quite right with my accent because a lot of people, at least in the US, don’t distinguish those vowels and because using a real word is less ambiguous (since I didn’t remember the exact transcription when I posted). I suppose I could have gone with “sod”, though.

[Throne3d]

I was just about to complain about that transcription too and then I recalled that in a lot of American accents people don't distinguish those vowels, as you said. :P

(Sod and sad very different in my accent. And I've been pronouncing Sadde with 'sad', ish, maybe a bit shorter.)