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[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I say “Kay-bee”; the n is silent

[–] Mars2k21@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Kay-bin seems like the only correct way. Cabin or K'bin just feels wrong for no particular reason. The name honestly just makes me think of KDE.

[–] dandan@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

kevin like in "Kevin Bacon"

[–] Andjhostet@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust my kids around someone that pronounces it k'bin

[–] LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

K'bin sounds like a Klingon name.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought in Klingon they pronounced those kind of names like Kay-bin

[–] Ferk@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't think Klingon has a K' anywhere, in fact in Klingon it would be written "Q" and followed by some vowel, like in Qapla' or in Qi'yaH

[–] elscallr@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Ferk@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's still likely a mistransliteration (or maybe because those are proper names), but Klingon has only "q" and "Q" (which depending on the capitalization are pronounced differently, treated as different letters), technically there's no "K" in the Klingon alphabet, you can see it in the pIqaD:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:KLI_pIqaD.svg

Similar as with the "f" from "Worf", there wouldn't be a straight "non-destructive" way to write it in Klingon.

CC: @Ragnell

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