Lick or Litch?

[octavius]

I've heard that Soros is surrounded by litchspittles.

 

[Jason Liang]

 

[thesheeep]

The fruit of darkness:

 

[Gord]

German: Licktenstine
English: Litchenstine

Loch is a good example of that awkward throat clearing sound being used in English though, so good example there, it's not an outright ck sound, but that course ch sound of loch.

Actually in german it's not "Licktenstine", it's pronounced with the same sound used for "ch" as in german "Ich", which sounds similar (but not exactly identical) to the "throat clearing sound" in Loch Ness.
Which is also the sound I default to for Lich, since it's anyway related to german "Leiche" (corpse), even though it's probably not the correct pronunciation in that case.
But I don't really give a shit.

Spoiler

 

[Spectacle]

I just pronounce it the way it's spelled.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

- I got lichma

- whats lichma?

- lich ma fucking pelvis lmfao

 

[SupremeLaziness]

Litch. I blame Blizzard for my current predicament.

 

[Storyfag]

Blizzard wasn't close to first.

 

[Hassar]

It sounds cooler if you pronounce it in German.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

What if the lich is Italian?

Lichiano?

Lichi-a

Thank you so much for to surviving my dungeon-a

 

[Curratum]

Why is this even a poll? Dictionaries exist.

 

[Junmarko]

Rename thread:
How do you pronounce Lich? - (Germans Only)

 

[Sacred82]

like li- and then some kind of coughing sound like you've swallowed a bug

 

[thesheeep]

Why is this even a poll? Dictionaries exist.

Written by the scientific and intellectual elite to manipulate us and drive us away from God!

 

[Theldaran]

Ravenloft 2 was horribly translated to... eh... the local language, you know. "Lich touch" was translated to something like "torch's lick". Getting the grammar right, eh.

 

[Beastro]

 

[pomenitul]

'Lich', which is cognate with the German 'Leiche' (corpse), used to mean 'like' because a cadaver is the ultimate instance of resemblance: it is merely like the departed.

 

[pomenitul]

Here's what the OED has to say:

Pronunciation: /lɪtʃ/
Etymology: Old English líc strong neuter = Old Frisian lîk , Old Saxon líc (Low German liche , like , Dutch lijk ), Old High German líh neuter and feminine (Middle High German lîch (feminine), also weak lîche , German leiche dead body), Old Norse lík (Swedish lik , Danish lig ), Gothic leik < Germanic *lîkom neuter. Comparison with the cognate words (see LIKE adj., LIKE n., LIKE v.) suggests that the original sense was probably ‘form, shape’.

 

[Dorateen]

But what does CMB have to say about how to pronounce Lich:

 

[Sacred82]

btw if you pronounce 'lich' like German 'Lich', the plural would be 'lichen' not 'lichs'

git gud arbitrary faggots

 

[Beastro]

btw if you pronounce 'lich' like German 'Lich', the plural would be 'lichen' not 'lichs'

git gud arbitrary faggots