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I'm certainly not as polished as some of the folks here, but I'm reviewing my favorite decks on youtube so my family and friends understand why I love cards so much!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl2eftn ... e=youtu.be[/youtube]

Thanks for posting this!

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Got it! Thank you!

Nice job. I look forward to viewing your other reviews that you do.

Our queen - she's a little bosomy.

Do we have a DOTY category for "biggest understatement?" Just asking, no reason.

Watching this video got me a little concerned, though. I'd just assumed the deck's name was /lunæ'tıkə/ (loon-A-tick-uh), but Cardileigh pronounces it throughout as /lu'nətikə/ (LOON-uh-teak-uh). Checking YouTube, V-Jose and TheGentlemanWake follow the former pronunciation, but magicorthodoxy hews to the latter. How do you all say the name of this deck?

Merlebird wrote:

Our queen - she's a little bosomy.

Do we have a DOTY category for "biggest understatement?" Just asking, no reason.

Watching this video got me a little concerned, though. I'd just assumed the deck's name was /lunæ'tıkə/ (loon-A-tick-uh), but Cardileigh pronounces it throughout as /lu'nətikə/ (LOON-uh-teak-uh). Checking YouTube, V-Jose and TheGentlemanWake follow the former pronunciation, but magicorthodoxy hews to the latter. How do you all say the name of this deck?

I honestly think I could pronounce it either way on any given day. We could ask Giovani!

I have used loon-uh-tick-uh and saw a review that said loon-attic-uh, which kind of sounded more natural.

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Cardileigh wrote:

Merlebird wrote:I'd just assumed the deck's name was /lunæ'tıkə/ (loon-A-tick-uh), but Cardileigh pronounces it throughout as /lu'nətikə/ (LOON-uh-teak-uh). Checking YouTube, V-Jose and TheGentlemanWake follow the former pronunciation, but magicorthodoxy hews to the latter. How do you all say the name of this deck?

I honestly think I could pronounce it either way on any given day. We could ask Giovanni!

People asked the creator of GIFs how we should pronounce them and look where that got us.

As with all neologisms, the question of pronunciation is decided mostly by what existing word(s) you're drawing an analogy to. The "loon-uh-tick-uh" rationale is straightforward enough: you're taking lunatic and tacking an unstressed vowel onto the end.

"Loon-attic-uh" (thx Blues) unfortunately requires getting a little deeper into the weeds of English phonology, but here goes: Lunatica is a four-syllable word ending in -ica. There are a few of these in English and, so far as I'm able to recall, they all place stress on the third-to-last syllable ("antepenultimate" if you're nasty): erotica, Britannica, Helvetica, etc. The quality of the stressed vowel is probably debatable, but American English speakers (like me) seem to default to /æ/ (the "hard a" of cat) over /ɑ/ (the "soft a" of father), especially for neologisms and other unfamiliar words where a listener might misinterpret /ɑ/ as "o." (That is, if you pronounced Lunatica as /lunɑ'tıkə/ an American listener would probably think the word was Lunotica instead.)

Ultimately it's about what you think sounds better/more "correct," and that in turn is going to be decided by which pronunciation adheres better to the rules of English phonology as you understand them. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.