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Originally Posted by TimovieMan
I've always pronounced it "Mashinarium" too. I get the confusion with mackinations, but I thought that both mackinations and mashinations were accepted in English? So, in analogy, maybe both are correct for Machinarium as well???
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Believe me, English accepts a lot. It's a wonderful, screwy language that makes rules then breaks them every chance it gets.
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I don't get the comparison with the Latin "deus ex machina", though, because the pronounciation there is closer to ma-he-na (the 'he'-part being like the word), imo. No 'sh'-sound, no 'k'-sound.
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Sounds like you're speaking church Latin maybe. (Which I know next to nothing about except it doesn't sound like what I learned in school sometime before dirt was invented.) AFAIK, Zane is right. It's a hard 'k' in machina not a soft sound like 'sh' or 'he'.
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Anyway, Botanicula looks awesome. It's one of the few titles that made my "list of games to play" before it was even released. 
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You and me. I've already got it on pre-order and I'm off to download the goodies now.
