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RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#50601: Jun 8th 2017 at 10:13:38 PM

I think there won't be a Jade. Jade doesn't really exist, there's two minerals Nephrite and Jadeite that are both identified as Jade. Bismuth has already mentioned the former. I imagine if there IS a Jade it's a Nephrite/Jadeite fusion.

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Sabertooth1000000000 Sabertooth from Land of the Livid Dead Since: Jul, 2010
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#50602: Jun 8th 2017 at 10:55:26 PM

Yeah I wanted it to be a Pokemon reference. I do think it would get annoying though as you said. Garnet is what the writers intended her name to be from the beginning and it's good they didn't change it just for a dumb joke.

That said...it might've been cool.

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RandomWriter413 Since: Feb, 2016
#50603: Jun 9th 2017 at 4:39:45 AM

Hyped for Save The Light.

Really hyped.

From what I've seen so far, from the twenty minutes of gameplay, it looks fun!

32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#50604: Jun 9th 2017 at 7:22:55 AM

@50578 Wait a minute... that's a flawed argument. You're missing a logical step in the argument. Yes, Eyeball was a witness. Yes, Pink Diamond was shattered in front of her entourage. However, what we don't know is if only her entourage was present for her shattering. There are plenty of reasons why someone from a different Diamond's court (for example, if Eyeball was accompanying one of Yellow Diamond's delivery specialists who was bringing something to Pink Diamond) would potentially be present.

In short, we have some idea of who was present when PD was killed. However, we do not have anything conclusive as to who was not there (and, thus, no conclusions one could make about who was there based on who wasn't there). Eyeball may have been a former member of PD's court, but we can't conclusively say for sure that she was yet.

@50585 Wait... how are your pronouncing "sapphire" that gives it three syllables? I say it with two.

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TyeDyeWildebeest Unreasonably Quirky from Big Rock Candy Mountain Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
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#50605: Jun 9th 2017 at 7:30:57 AM

@50585 Wait... how are your pronouncing "sapphire" that gives it three syllables? I say it with two.

Saph - hai - err?

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RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#50606: Jun 9th 2017 at 8:13:24 AM

It comes down to the fact that some people pronounce "fire" as a two syllable word and some people pronounce "fire" as one syllable.

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#50608: Jun 9th 2017 at 8:41:49 AM

Merriam-Webster says Sapphire is two syllables. I trust that more than dictionary.com.

32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Think of the mooks!
#50609: Jun 9th 2017 at 9:02:08 AM

I wasn't aware that there was a syllable shift for "sapphire" (and probably "fire," while we're on the subject) in some accents. I guess it isn't any stranger than the fact that some people claim "here" has two syllables.

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#50610: Jun 9th 2017 at 9:02:26 AM

Speaking of Pokemon I wonder if we're ever going to have a Uranium Gem. Since as pure elements they do form crystals.

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#50611: Jun 9th 2017 at 10:29:40 AM

> Garnet is what the writers intended her name to be from the beginning and it's good they didn't change it just for a dumb joke.

Just be glad she's simply Garnet and not Carbuncle of all things,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbuncle_(gemstone)

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#50612: Jun 9th 2017 at 11:56:38 AM

The mythological carbuncle would make sense as something to call a nonhumanoid gem creature though. Or just as a name for what humans call corrupted gems.

edited 9th Jun '17 11:59:42 AM by xanderiskander

32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#50613: Jun 9th 2017 at 12:05:44 PM

In a What Could Have Been, it would have been interesting if they had named corrupted gems something other than "corrupted (blank)," such that Carbuncle would have been the appropriate name for a corrupted Ruby, and things like that. Totally get why they wouldn't do that, of course, but it would have been fascinating.

Completely unrelated, something I just wondered... do shards of shattered gems inherently have the ability to reform into parts, or did Homeworld have to do something in order to make them able to partially reform? I don't think we've seen any gem shards that haven't potentially been experimented upon by Homeworld. I kinda wonder because it's thus an open question as to what would happen if a present-day gem was just shattered - it'd be pretty horrific if a host of disembodied limbs suddenly manifested and started acting out. Also, there's the Fridge Horror of just how much experimentation Homeworld was doing if that's the source of manifested limbs and the like.

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#50614: Jun 9th 2017 at 12:16:12 PM

Word of God said the monster in together breakfast was a gem that was ground up and used as pigment to make the ink on the scroll it escaped from.

My guess is broken gems just kind of haunt the world as "ghosts" or zombies. Kind of makes killing them an even bigger guilt trip that way.

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#50615: Jun 9th 2017 at 12:56:21 PM

Sapphire is pronounced with three syllables in the show itself, too.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#50616: Jun 9th 2017 at 1:23:28 PM

No? They pronounce it Sa-fir.

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#50617: Jun 9th 2017 at 1:28:48 PM

"Fire" definitely has two syllables. For some reason official sources often claim otherwise, but just say the word. It's got three distinct allophones! Just listen to it. It's exactly the same as if we spelled it "fiyer" and if that were the case you bet Webster would be claiming it has two syllables.

I don't even know how you would pronounce fire with one syllable. I try but it just sounds like I'm quickly saying two every time.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#50618: Jun 9th 2017 at 1:35:22 PM

Same. I'm not really sure how you would pronounce "sapphire" with only two syllables or "fire" with only one.

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#50619: Jun 9th 2017 at 1:35:52 PM
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#50620: Jun 9th 2017 at 1:39:45 PM

Everyone, especially Ruby, definitely pronouces it Saph-eye-er.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#50621: Jun 9th 2017 at 1:45:29 PM

I don't know what you're hearing, but I looked up scenes with Ruby earlier to confirm and it's not what I did. But I don't think it matters anyway.

'm not really sure how you would pronounce "sapphire" with only two syllables or "fire" with only one.
"Fire" as one sound without an "uh" in between.

edited 9th Jun '17 1:47:21 PM by xanderiskander

SalFishFin Since: Jan, 2001
#50622: Jun 9th 2017 at 1:46:44 PM

She literally yells it in three syllables when they're looking for each other in The Return.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#50623: Jun 9th 2017 at 1:48:26 PM

Yeah, regardless of how you, personally, would normally pronounce the word, they definitely pronounce it with three syllables in the show.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#50624: Jun 9th 2017 at 1:52:33 PM

And the episode I looked at was Keystone Motel.

But this is dumb and subjective. Believe whatever you want. I'm moving on from this.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#50625: Jun 9th 2017 at 1:53:48 PM

Since the topic is presently about pronouncing words,Padparadscha is a challenging one

edited 9th Jun '17 1:56:15 PM by Ultimatum

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