#WhatsTheDeal with #StargateSG1's #Pronunciation of #GoaUld, #ShawRey/#ShaUri, #Jaffa etc., @GateWorld? (I don't know about #SGA or #SGU) #Pronounce #Pronouncing #Pronounced #Pronounces #Pronunciations #Pronouncement (#Pronouns? LoL)
I'm 'old-school bingeing' STARGATE SG-1.
Their pronunciations strike me as a little weird.
First (noted by YouTube-creator AntiTrekker as well), there's "Goa'uld," and there's "Jaffa." (The Goa'uld are 'symbioses' (of a mature symbiote & a humanoid host) who fashion themselves as 'gods' in order to assume rule over the many "Jaffa" ... who are symbioses of humanoids & younger symbiotes).
Within the very series, there are characters who pronounce them 'right' (GO-ah-OOLD & jə-FAW) and some pronounce them
Then there's 'the Jaffa whom Daniel met and "married" (I think they "gave her to him" in the movie (when the humans were taken as "beings descended through the holy gate to them"), when Daniel planned to stay with her off-world; but then she was captured by Apophis, turned into a Goa'uld, and died after having a son with the Goa'uld.)
In the movie, I think her name was pronounced shaw-OO-ree (STARGATE's Fandom-WIKI says the name actually was Sha'uri), but I think everyone in the series has always pronounced it shaw-RAY (retconned Sha're by the writers of SG-1, supposedly because an actor had trouble pronouncing the original name (though I suspect there might also have been copyright-issues)).
The word “Pronounce” is built on ancient words that mean “|Forth, |Out in Public (Pro-) + Messenger, Shout.”
The word “Jaffa” is built on ancient words that mean “Strength & |Glory” (I'm not sure where STARGATE got the name, but Jaffa is also the name of a city in ancient |Israel—a major port which |Tel Aviv grew out-of; the word is also slang for an |Impotent Man and for a '|Juicy,' Unplayable |Cricket-Pitch, a meaning taken from the |Seedless |Oranges grown in the port-city or -from the Cake that's made with those oranges; it's also a name that's a variant of the Jewish Jaffe (from the |Hebrew for "Beautiful, Pleasant").
The word “Goa'uld” is built on ancient words that mean “God (in |STARGATE 'lore' (or the |Gibberish that STARGATE (SG1)'s writers probably based on |Egyptian)” (it might also have some basis in the word |Ghoul, or (of-course) |Go or Gold or Ghost or ... Guacamole?)
The Goa'uld are the primary adversaries in Stargate SG-1 from seasons 1 to 8. Stargate SG-1 creators Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner established in SG-1's 1997 pilot episode "Children of the Gods" that the film's unnamed alien race and the Goa'uld are the same. As such, the look of the series' Goa'uld, including the early archvillain Apophis, was based on Ra in the feature film.[28] The Goa'uld are introduced as the first and most prominent alien race in the Milky Way, and are also one of the few nonhumanoid species to appear in the early seasons of the series. They are a parasitic species that resemble finned snakes, which can burrow themselves into a humanoid's neck and wrap around the spinal column. The Goa'uld symbiote then takes control of its host's body and mind, while providing longevity and perfect health. ...
The Goa'uld modified humans to create the Jaffa to serve as soldiers and as incubators for their young via an abdominal pouch. The story of the Jaffa is primarily told through the main character Teal'c. The Jaffa's look in the series was copied from the Egyptian look of Ra from the film.[29] The Jaffa rely on the symbiotes for their immune system or will die a slow and painful death that can only be avoided by either acquiring a new symbiote or by lifelong regular injections of a replacement drug called Tretonin.
The name “Sha ... -whatever” ... I can't find any STARGATE-reference to the name's meaning; but in the real world, there's the Swahili for "Plan, Advice, Conference, Consultation," the meaning "Lord |Vishnu, Pure," the Hungarian root-name that means "Princess" (related to |Sarah).
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