On tonight is a movie on the UK Sci-fi channel called Ba'al: The Storm God but the announcer is pronouncing Ba'al as bale rather than ball. I also looked up Ba'al and I found that Stargate Ba'al is supposed to be this Storm God of the Canaanite religion. So I was just wondering how is Ba'al suppose to be pronounced, bale or ball?
Ba'al - how to pronounce his name
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No idea but pronouncing it like they do on Stargate sounds better, but people tend to have the same problem pronouncing Heracles. It's supposed to be Hera'cleese' but many people pronounce it as Herac'als'.
I never heard Baal pronounced ball until SG-1. It was always bale in Bible class. But no one knows for sure, since no ancient pronunciation guide exists, as far as I know.
I'll never forgive them for not taking advantage of his schemes involving his numerous clones to make the obvious "He had to have a lot of Ba'als to try pulling this one off" joke.
Either way,both the Bible's 'bail' and SG1s 'ball' are pushing daisies.
Though I suppose this is relevant to what gets written on the tombstone.
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It's almost as annoying as Data's pronunciation of Futile in First Contact.
Resistance if Feudal.
Resistance if Feudal.
It's one of these things where the word may be known from antiquity, but we can only guess at its original pronunciation. Therefore it's difficult to say one is 'more right' than the other. A-noobis versus AN-u-bis is another discrepancy in a similar vein.
To me, the SG-1 pronunciation makes more sense, but only in that it fits better into pronouncing Ba‘al Zebûb in the most common manner. Bear in mind that 'Ba'al' on its own simply means 'lord', and beign a fairly common word was almsot certain to be subject to variation.
Not that its a definitive source on this (as none by definition can really exist) but Wikipedia gives the pronunciation with a fricative in between two syllables - suggesting a prounciation similar to SG-1's.
To me, the SG-1 pronunciation makes more sense, but only in that it fits better into pronouncing Ba‘al Zebûb in the most common manner. Bear in mind that 'Ba'al' on its own simply means 'lord', and beign a fairly common word was almsot certain to be subject to variation.
Not that its a definitive source on this (as none by definition can really exist) but Wikipedia gives the pronunciation with a fricative in between two syllables - suggesting a prounciation similar to SG-1's.
In Hebrew the correct pronunciation of Ba'al is "bale" in English. Anytime you see an apostrophe in the middle of a Hebrew word (usually names) if a vowel is the last letter before the apostrophe, it's pronounced in it's long form. If it ends in a consonant, the last vowel is pronounced in it's short form. So Ba'al is pronounced "Bale".
Ball... as in Bocce.
Isn't it obvious? His name should be pronounced: Christian.
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