LARA Croft...NOT laura!!!!!

[Marty-Man-X]

That is all.

[Draken/Eitan]

Opprinnelig skrevet av fatbeer85:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Draken/Lior:

Their response was essentially that they originally intended Laura but, since the number of gamers in USA, they could not in the end use a name that would be diffficult to a potentially large fanbase.

Is this true? Why does everyone think Americans are dumb? Or rather, why wouldn't Americans be able to pronounce one of the most common girls' first name in the country?

Its really not about intelligence. :) Accents vary, and sometimes greatly even within a small country. According to what I read years ago, they wanted something relatively easy across as many accents as possible.

They said American accent, but thats not the first accent I would think of that would have difficulties with the names. I bet its nigh on impossible to distingush between Lara and Laura in Australian English.

Again, its not about intelligence. In European English, there is a tencance to have very closed counding vowels. There fore subtle distinctions can be heard in the pronounciation. In USA English, there is a tendancy for much broader vowels in most, but not all accents. I would imagine Australians have the broadest vowel set... but I base that mostly from Television.

But sure, within the game, there are many accents. Each pronounce Lara a little different. Roth has a very shortened dimunitave sound, while Sam has a much the opposite. Just two examples. (I am not even going to try to analyse the non native speakers since that adds a whole additional set of variables such as how, when, and where they learned English).

(Sometimes I wish I studied Linguistics xD - Its all very interesting to me)

[Dellicious]

It's Lara and she's British, deal with it yo.

Lah-ra = Lara
Law-ra = Laura

How ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard is it?

[fatbeer85]

Opprinnelig skrevet av fatwednesdayite:

It is Lara. Not too difficult to grasp. By the way, it is only American reviewers that consistently mispronounced the name

*rolls eyes*

[fatbeer85]

Dude I watched the GS review of this game, and carolyn clearly pronounces it as lar-rah, not lore-ah.
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also, isn't gamespot british?

[R234]

I would've been suprised if Roth had pronounced her name [lɔːɹɑ] like an American (instead going for the correct [lɑɾɑ] for his accent, alveolar tap and all) seeing as he's voiced by Robin Atkin Downes, one of the best voice actors around in my opinion and more importantly, a dialect expert. Compare four of his video game roles, say TR's Roth, No More Heroes' Travis Touchdown, the TF2 Medic and male voice 3 in Saints Row The Third, and he's got a different accent every time, always very much believable.

From what I can tell he has a few minor roles in TR too, like the guy who kidnaps Lara at the very beginning, and that German-sounding scientist in some collectible documents.

[Fuzz]

LOL @ the people who think it's hard to pronouce or know the difference, especially if your first language is English.

It's Lara, not Laura. It's not hard at all. " I bet its nigh on impossible to distingush between Lara and Laura in Australian English." Maybe if you're an idiot but I'm not calling you one. I'm Australian and I have no trouble saying her name.

Even Reyes in the game can't say it for some reason. It's like Lar-rah not Lor-rah or La-rah like Reyes says it.

Bloody hell people, it's LARA! I hate how noobs can't say her name.

[Internet_Hero]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Fuzz:

LOL @ the people who think it's hard to pronouce or know the difference, especially if your first language is English.

It's Lara, not Laura. It's not hard at all. " I bet its nigh on impossible to distingush between Lara and Laura in Australian English." Maybe if you're an idiot but I'm not calling you one. I'm Australian and I have no trouble saying her name.

Even Reyes in the game can't say it for some reason. It's like Lar-rah not Lor-rah or La-rah like Reyes says it.

Bloody hell people, it's LARA! I hate how noobs can't say her name.

Lol, why are they a 'noob' because they can't pronounce her name properly? Everyone is saying Lah-ra. If you're pronouncing it LAH-ra you're still saying her name wrong.

[Fuzz]

I don't know how you're trying to say it but if you say it like Reyes does then you're saying it wrong.

[Internet_Hero]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Fuzz:

I don't know how you're trying to say it but if you say it like Reyes does then you're saying it wrong.

There's no other way of showing pronunciation of her name other than LARA. Like it has two R's in her name, Larra. I wish you could attach voice clips, haha.

[Marty-Man-X]

Opprinnelig skrevet av herberck:

no, i agree. whenever i see a stream where someboy says laura i cringe a little lol. i think people who do that should be banned from playing any tomb raider games for life :p

THANK YOU!

[Marty-Man-X]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Tony:

who care hows it pronouced its the way its spelt that is the problem

yes

[Marty-Man-X]

Thanks guys for the responses, I am glad that others notice this aswell. Now I am borde of the forums though, so I will not be posting.

Bye bye

[GrimAquatic]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Kenny ♥♥♥♥♥♥' Powers:

There's no other way of showing pronunciation of her name other than LARA. Like it has two R's in her name, Larra. I wish you could attach voice clips, haha.

There is a way. It's called transcription:
Lara [lɑrɑ] - correct;
Lara [lærɑ] - incorrect;
Laura [lɔːrɑ] - incorrect.

[psyence]

Opprinnelig skrevet av hotfix666:

I know she have smal titts now :(

Wait, how are those small? They still look way larger than the average girl with similar body frame. Are all the girls you date either obese or surgically enhanced?

[GreaseMan]

Who? Laura Croft?