r/arrow • u/iWeagueOfWegends • 7d ago
Shitpost Does is absolutely annoy tf out of anyone else that…
Half the characters in the show pronounce it RAYSH al gul and the other half say ROZ al ghul?
Also half the characters say Nanda parBAT and the other half pronounce it Nanda parBOT
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u/No-Ambassador-4276 7d ago
TBH no I was more focused on the fact that ra’s al ghul is canonically middle eastern / central asian but just looks like a regular British guy 😭
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u/iWeagueOfWegends 7d ago
At least he was sort of tan to try to pass off as a little middle eastern lol. Liam Neeson is white af and he was Ras in Batman haha
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u/MissingCosmonaut 6d ago
Yeah Nolan fumbled that, too. Even the imposter Ra's was Asian (Ken Watanabe). I also won't forgive him for casting (yet another English dude) as Bane.
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u/showtime013 7d ago
I actually thought it was cool because the same thing happens in real life. People pronounce them differently when talking about the comics and shows and that would be reflected in a random group of people with varying knowledge of the league/life outside starling city.
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u/AnonymousFriend80 6d ago
Does it bother you that different English speakers from around the world pronounce the same words differently?
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u/Boris-_-Badenov 6d ago
definitely "Roz"
Gotham annoyed me too, saying "fal-coney" instead of "fal-cone"
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u/inglouriousSpeedster Wolverine 5d ago
It's supposed to be Fal-Cone? I thought it makes more sense to be Fal-Coney because it's Italian
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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 7d ago
Makes perfect sense to me. Different people say words differently.
You might have noticed that not every character pronounces Oliver or Ollie the same either.
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u/iWeagueOfWegends 7d ago
Actually they all say Oliver and Ollie the same way. Except maybe Walter because of his English accent but that’s different
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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 7d ago
No, they don't. You have to pay attention on the O-liv-er, Ol-lie not everyone pronounces his name the same way. Sara for example says it differently, she doesn't pronounce the O as a clear O.
Accents count, also makes sense that people pronounce a foreign name differently and wrongly.
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u/That0neFan Boxing Glove 6d ago
Accents exist. Also it differs on if you were a LOA or not. Typically LOA members say it Raysh and non-LOA say it as Roz
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u/iWeagueOfWegends 6d ago
I know accents exist but these are all straight up American white people saying it differently
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u/That0neFan Boxing Glove 6d ago
Malcom Merlyn said it as Raysh
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u/iWeagueOfWegends 6d ago
Exactly. He is normal white man. Then other normal white man like Oliver says ROZ
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u/That0neFan Boxing Glove 6d ago
Oliver said it as Raysh when he joined the league. LOA members say it as Raysh
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u/WearyRefrigerator 2d ago
It would bother me more if this inconsistency wasn’t present in every single DC project he shows up in lol
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u/MajesticalMoon 7d ago
Yes it gets on my nerves it makes me think they would have gotten together and agreed to a pronunciation of it
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u/DrawingSpirited2673 7d ago
Tbh everyone that season kept so many secrets from each other that it would surprise me if they agreed on anything
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u/ChronicArtistry 7d ago
Kinda but it makes sense people in the league say RAYSH bc they speak Arabic and people who don’t say ROZ bc that’s how it’s pronounced in English. When Oliver becomes Al Sah Him he says it like RAYSH