Which brings me actually to…well, that was one of the questions I was going to ask later on; I thought I’d pick a different tangent rather than ter’angreal and the Horn of uh…call it vuh-LEAR.
Please correct our pronunciations, too, you guys, whenever you run across them; that’s one of the big things we want to pin down is, how we should pronounce some of these things so if you hear us say something and you don’t think it’s what RJ would have wanted, then please just break in and say ‘no’.
[in her sweet little girl voice] Okay.
Valere (rhyming with vuh-LEAR) was the way he pronounced it.
Yay, I got it right!
Who’s keeping score?
Well, I’m almost never right, so it’s good to be able to say I was right for once.
I used to be wrong about a lot of pronunciations when I first started working for him, because that was about the time of A Crown of Swords , and I would say something, and say it wrong, and he would give me this look, like ‘What are you saying?’ and correct me, so I got most of them down over time.
I can see that look perfectly, because I actually have a very short video clip from one of the book signings where somebody tried to pronounce ‘the Shaido’, and he just gave them ‘the look’, and said, ‘It’s not Shy-doh. It’s not Shadow. It’s Shah-EE-doh. Everybody kind of went, [in a small, apologetic voice] ‘O-kie.’ [laughter] He could quell an entire room with one look. It was amazing.
The first time I met Jordan at a signing, the first thing he said to me was correcting my pronunciation of something. I was like, ‘Awww, I ruined it! He’ll never talk to me again now!’
He wouldn’t hold it against you. I—
Oh, yeah. Well clearly he didn’t because he did eventually come to DragonCon, so…
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