Dark Tower
Cricket
1. "Calla"
2. "Mejis"
Thanks,
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Cricket
Bev Vincent
"Cricket" <creeNOS...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> How do you pronounce:
>
> 1. "Calla"
> 2. "Mejis"
1) Like the word "call" and the word "a" -- this one I'm sure of
2) I pronounce it May-jiss in my head, but I'm not sure that's right. Though
it's analogous to Mexico and one might expect a Spanish pronunciation, King
doesn't have a record of using Spanish pronunciations for things like this
in DT (e.g. Calla)
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The Road to the Dark Tower, coming from NAL, November 2004
Eroom Tam
>
> 1. "Calla"
the same as 'u' is "up"
> 2. "Mejis"
I see this as the Spanish pronounciation: "MAY-jees", but the "j" is
more of a throaty "h" sound.
I have never heard any of the audio versions of the DT books, though.
Humble Will Teach
<creeNOS...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>How do you pronounce:
>
>1. "Calla"
>2. "Mejis"
>
>Thanks,
From WOTC, page 117.
Susanna (keep in mind that she has heard the name of the town
pronounced by now): "Calla's Spanish in our world".
Spanish double-l is pronounced "yi", as in tortillas.
There was something else, too, but I can't find it right now. It's
been a couple of months since I've read WOTC. Whatever it was, it
persuaded me mid-read to change my "in-my-head" pronunciation from
"Ka-luh" with the "a as in apple" sound, to "Ki-yuh" with a long "i".
"Mejis", I don't know. It's "may-jiss" in my head.
HWT
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Eroom Tam
>
> 1. "Calla"
> 2. "Mejis"
what "Calla" refers to?
Bev Vincent
"Humble Will Teach" <will_t...@37.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:14:29 -0800, "Cricket"
> <creeNOS...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >How do you pronounce:
> >
> >1. "Calla"
> >2. "Mejis"
> >
> >Thanks,
>
> From WOTC, page 117.
>
> Susanna (keep in mind that she has heard the name of the town
> pronounced by now): "Calla's Spanish in our world".
>
> Spanish double-l is pronounced "yi", as in tortillas.
>
> There was something else, too, but I can't find it right now. It's
> been a couple of months since I've read WOTC. Whatever it was, it
> persuaded me mid-read to change my "in-my-head" pronunciation from
> "Ka-luh" with the "a as in apple" sound, to "Ki-yuh" with a long "i".
King pronounces it Call-a and there's a discussion of the difference between
Calla and Callahan, how one is tongue-down and the other is tongue-up on the
double els. It's pronounced the same was as the Calla lily.
Robert Whelan
Callafornia?
Hillery Griffin
(pronounced with the y - Cayia) is street.
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I got the impression that Calla was just a local name meaning Town of,
since there were several Calla's mentioned.
Blair
"Hillery Griffin" <hgri...@planetc.com> wrote in message
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> I asked our Spanish teacher about it, and she said Calla in Spanish
> (pronounced with the y - Cayia) is street.
I think street is 'calle.'
-B
Shadow
"Bev Vincent" <MaxD...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Cricket" <creeNOS...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:vvr7g3i...@corp.supernews.com...
> > How do you pronounce:
> >
> > 1. "Calla"
> > 2. "Mejis"
>
> 1) Like the word "call" and the word "a" -- this one I'm sure of
How? He says in the book that it's a Spanish word and the word, in Spanish,
is pronounced KY-yuh. That's how I would pronounce it.
> 2) I pronounce it May-jiss in my head, but I'm not sure that's right.
Though
> it's analogous to Mexico and one might expect a Spanish pronunciation,
King
> doesn't have a record of using Spanish pronunciations for things like this
> in DT (e.g. Calla)
Again, it's a Spanish word or dialectically it would have a Spanish
pronunciation so I'm going with MAY-heese (the second syllable rhyming with
"geese").
webster
: > 1) Like the word "call" and the word "a" -- this one I'm sure of
: How? He says in the book that it's a Spanish word and the word, in Spanish,
: is pronounced KY-yuh. That's how I would pronounce it.
On the subject of the similarity between Calla and Callahan:
"I think it's only a coincidence," Susannah said. "Surely not
everything we encounter on our path is ka, is it? I mean, these
don't even sound the same." And she pronounced them, Calla
with the tongue up, making the broad-a sound, Callahan with the
tongue down, making a much sharper a-sound. " Calla's Spanish
in our world --like many of the words you remember from Mejis,
Roland. It means street or square, I think -- don't hold me to it,
because high school Spanish is far behind me now. But if I'm
right, using the word as a prefix for the name of a or a
whole series of them, as seems to be the case in these
makes pretty good sense. Not perfect, but pretty good. Callahan,
on the other hand.." She shrugged. "What is it? Irish? English?"
King pronounces the word as I indicated in 1) above. I've heard him
say it numerous times.
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Doug Cunningly
news:g3vNb.311$1f.3...@monger.newsread.com:
Wonder if they go back to NYC again and go to a diner and have a roll and
butter. Think of the possibilities there with wordplay.
Morgan
in Southern California called Calle Verano--or Summer Street. Interesting
note--according to my Spanish dictionary, 'calla' means "to silence; not
mention; keep calm; keep quiet; keep still" from the word
'callar'--pronounced kah-yah, I believe. Double L's have a Y sound unless
they're followed by an I, then they sound like the LLI like in William. As
for 'Mejis', in Spanish the J would be pronounced as an H: may-hees. But
for the sake of Roland's world, I mispronounce them wrong anyway. I figure
they have the pronounciation wrong after thousands of years of different
accents and languages passing through their world.
Morgan
MonaLassy
<MaxD...@hotmail.com> writes:
I see Mejis that way, too,but always heard calla ( in my head) with the first a
sounding like the a in apple, rather then the U sounding a few here have
mentioned.
Mona
another Constant Reader
Tamara
"MonaLassy" <mona...@aol.com> wrote in message
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I heard it in my head as in a long A (cal) then short a (la) as in the
flowers - or my favorite username - Calla Lilly
Tamara