I keep telling people about the site but i don't know how it's pronounced so I have to spell it to them.

Caedes himself pronounces it "kaydz". There's a lengthy thread about it if you scroll back on this discussion board for a ways. =)

haha! No one knows - yet everyone knows how to pronounce Caedes. It's still a question on everyones mind.

Its werid that nobody had ever asked before about how to say it, but now just in the last month or 2 there have been several threads with people asking.

Inquiring minds want to KNOW! Someone should call the Vatican.


*later* I'm still a fan of Ka-eye-dess

Hmm? What do you mean call the Vatican?

lol... Obviously because the Vatican is infallible. You're a Catholic Tommy, you should know that by now. ;-) He also might have meant that since Caedes is a latin word where better to find out the correct pronunciation than the Vatican. Latin is the official language of the church. =)

It's pronounced Kay-dez BTW.... I've taken Latin before and with the most commonly practiced form of pronunciation it would be pronouced that way. Although I just recently started learning classical Latin and if pronouced classicaly it would be pronouced Kai-dez (or dess).

i think you find that it is from latin, meaning slaughter therefore pronounced keedeez

As per my post on the other thread, I had a look at a latin pronunciation website. According to them, it should be pronounced like this:

'c' is always pronounced hard, as in 'k'.
'ae', as Caedes said, is pronounced 'ai', as in aisle.
the final 'e' is pronounced as in 'they'
the 's' is pronounced soft (not as in 'z')

So: Caedes is pronounced 'Kai-days'

Whether that actually gets us anywhere, I don't know.

Very good captain hero, I was wondering about the 's' thing. But about the 'e' in the 'des'... e is only pronouced 'A' when it is a long vowel. In all the latin I've ever heard it would be short in this case.

lol... when I think about this I doubt caedes himself ever anticipated all this discussion about the pronunciation. =D

I myself cannot speak latin, so I'm having to rely on this website I came across, which may be wrong. Also I may have misinterpreted it. Possibly it is short 'e', as in 'egg'.

Of course, I guess you can pronounce it any way you want.

I pronounce it thusly:
Kay-ah-dees
shoot me if i'm wrong :)

I pronounce... Caedes Hahaha!
Ahem... seriously: Agree with CaptainHero

*shoots alzco*

;-)

*ouch*
<< falls over
<< thinks the ceiling would make a nice photo
:o)

i've always said cay-dees... and i'm sticking to it, latin's a dead language so technically you can say what you like ;-)

It's SPELLED "Caedes" but it's PRONOUNCED "throat-wobbler-mangrove".

Caedes....Exactly like Haedes but with a "c"....You can figure it out from there.

hahaha, but the c wasnt the part we were having the problem with, its the REST of it :)

I pronounce it like "Katies" or something like that....who knows...lol

just spell it for them...jokin its pronounced "kayds" i think

I actually emailed him once and he said that he pronounced it kades, like jade, add an s, jades/ kades. I don't know. But if that's the way HE pronounces it, then it's gotta be right, right!? :)

F Latin. Long live Caedes...er kades...? :))))

i pronounce it Kae-Dese, but ya know what, since I seriously doubt that every single patron of this fine site will one day meet to debate and decide on enunciation of the word "caedes", we can all pronounce it as we wish...

unless of course caedes comes in and puts it all to rest...

on another note...

*shoots beowulf for shooting someone else (vigilante justice), and of course for being engaged* grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... j/k

I've always pronounced it "say-deez" ..?

That's how I've pronounced it

i pronounce it as if it were greek:

Kaydeez

look, the 'ae' section is the same as in caesar, therefore is pronounced 'ee'.
In Latin, 'c' in pronounced hard (k) as i learned from GCSE Latin
A non-accented 'e' is pronounced 'ee'
the 's' is, in the suffix 'es' pronounced as a 'z' therefore
the word 'caedes' is pronounced 'kee-deez'
Thank you
refer to http://www.ai.uga.edu/~mc/latinpro.pdf for my sources

You seem to be mixing your latin: You pronounce 'c' hard, as in classical latin, but ignore the fact that the dipthong 'æ' would therefore be classically pronounced 'ai', as in aisle (your own source shows this). A more modern pronunciation might be 'a', as in 'day', or occasionally 'ee', but you have already signalled the classic route by using the hard 'k'.

The single 'e' would either be 'a' as in 'plate' or possible 'e' as in 'pet'. 'ee' would only apply if you were using the modernised 'english' type pronunciation.

Again, 's' in classical latin would be pronounced soft in just about all circumstances, but only using the 'english' style would it be 'z'

classical 'caedes' would be something like 'kai-days' or maybe 'kai-des' with the 'e' pronounced as in pet.

modern 'caedes' might be something like 'say-dees', but even then there might be all kinds of variations.


As already mentioned above, it probably doesn't really matter how you say it, but I guess it is difficult when trying to talk about it.

I've always pronounced it as sayds, but it looks like I'm the only one, and I don't know latin so I must be wrong.....

OK. This is my last, final post on this. It's pronounced "Caedes".

I personnally pronounce it: Kay-Daz. Just how I say it though. Not everyone has to agree with me.......

Shots Whozurdoggy for shooting Beowoulf because he's engaged.

I pronounce it "kaydz" from the first time I stumbled on it by doing a search for "desktop backgrounds" on google. anyway, it dont matter, i think the webmaster should come in and put an end to this by telling us all how its prounounced lol

I agree with cyberphant0m. Somebody who knows, anyone out therE!? When I first joined I thought of it as that site... just that site cuz I had no idea how to pronounce it! But then after I saw this post and that caedes himself pronounces it KAYDZ... That's how I pronounce it now. And I see why he pronounces it that way. Caede... pluralized. Caedes. So anyway, I take it that if Caedes himself pronounces it KAYDZ then that's ought to be the correct way.

i went with kay-ee-deez, mainly because it's easier to spell correctly if it's heard that way.

I aced latin 2, the way to pronounce it is 'Kai-dez' with the soft 'e' sound

I know all of you are trying to figure the pronunciation out but the real question is- Who Cares? Its just a great site with beautiful pics i dont really mind pronunciation- but thats my opinion. I always thought it sounded like "kaydz"

How about Kay-e-dz?e is pronouned like the 'e' in the english alphabet.

What do people think of that way?

Kay-dez, that's that. It is the easiest and wtf ever. =P

kay-deez .... *everyone shoots soph* ;- )

How you pronounce it...just check the dictionary...that's when it gets interesting. If you didn't know what it means...you'll start to wonder why that particular name was chosen. Ah hah. There in lies the real mystery.

I think Caedes has said a couple of times how the site was named. See here for example.

i personally pronounce it say-deez...like the c in caesar...:)

hard c. kay dees. kay like in katie. dees like in bees.

I pronounce it latin. Ca (like ca from car) e (liken the e from end) des (like the des in ahm is ther a english word with des? don't know)
Translation of caedes is: murder, massacre, blood bath
it comes from caedere: to kill, to chop (tree), to sloughter
I don't know why Caedes chose this name...it really doesn't fit.

Oh contraire, 'caedes' is very appropriate for its original context. =)

Aha! That explains the name! Intresting!

I just say "Sades" heh.

I pronounce it "Say-Dees."

"Kayds"

It looks like KAI-EE-DEEZ to me.

I've always wondered, and now I know! I use to pronounce it as "see ay dees." I don't think that's been tried yet! It seems like the word caedes could be pronounced a hundred different ways! Thanks to the people who have found the right pronouciation!

I just say "Say-dees" lol

What does Caedes mean? is it something of the Church? If so ...thats AWESOME!! haha

I think its Kay-Dis

It's impossible to pronounce using the human tongue...perhaps it's Klingon. :)

Through extensive research and untiring efforts, I have officially found the one correct pronunciation.

The beginning sound, though vastly unrecongnized by the masses, was originally taken from acient dialect of the Albino African Monks who would travel from place to place as nomads while mumbling utter gibberish. The "c" should be pronounced with a throat sucking gargle similar to the formation of "akh" in Hebrew.

The formation of the two vowels combined is occasionly derived from the not-so-commonly known speech of the mute turkey. Originally developed by software designer working for Arcsoft when high, this language is used all over the world by mute turkeys today. As well as a screeching "eee" sound more from the windpipe than the voicebox, it involves a quick little Irish jig, which tends to keep your feet quite busy as you utter the sound.

What appears to be the "d" is rather a form of expressed finality originally intorduced by a rock by the name of Wilbur. Although considered mentaly unstable in his own time, today Wilbur is regarded with the highest respect from poets and the few great minds of the modern era as a genious, and irrefutably beyond the comprehension level of normal human life (if it exists). It should be pronounced with low vigor, as if meant to imply that the speaker is not a simple artist describing a web site, but actually the the head embassador of Uganda choking on sushi.

The last sound of this peculiar word is a fraction of the least popular war chant spoken by the Mongels while bathing. Though frowned upon when spoken, the sound actually refers to the use of a lampshade while boiling a combination of Arabian stew and Canadian pudding while stuck in a tree, all while gurgling. Its only modern reference was subtly made by Strongbad when he was rejecting one "Brianrietta". It sounds similar to the mating call of the dodo with several extra vowels placed about in random intervals, all while stuffing one's self with popcorn and snapping to a jazzy tune.

In short, it is a rather complex word, one which I will not try to summarize for all the novices in pronunciation obviously reading this. Caedes should be referred to as "that one web site with cool background images available for download", or the name should be changed.

If you go through those lengths to derive the pronunciation of a word, I'm sure you could make any simple word quite complicated. The word is latin and the pronunciation and "caed es" could easily be found in any latin dictionary, or learned to be pronounced using any latin pronunciation guide. They can be found all over the internet...

Oh by the way, the actual pronunciation was put at the beginning of this thread, and another thread. And caedes has also told us how he pronounces it, yet this discussion continues...
Therefore we will all now pronounce it MY way!

Official caedes pronounciation:
C-A-E-D-E-S - Noobs-World!

Now you have something to tell your friends, simply tell them to visit noobs world. Have a nice day

AAAaaarrrghhhh... MWooof... PFweeEEET... GAAAaaaK...

Thank you, stuffnstuff. I was actually able to chant myself back from the dead.

I actually have 2 different ways of saying "caedes". One is the latin way, the way I talk about it when I'm telling friends, and the other is in my head. I simply say it "k-dees" in my head. Plus, most of my friends don't know latin, so I just write it down on a peice of paper for them. I actually got onto the site before I knew latin, and didn't have a clue how to say it, but then when I learned latin, I was like "OH! YAY!!!!" :)

Man, isn't this thread dead yet?

Apparently not, but I seem to be having fun on it.

You do indeed!

Oh my god people, the work CAEDES, if it is a word, has truely been beaten to a pulp. No, it has been incinerated by a nuclear bomb. And I am pretty sure it is just K-A(long A)-EE-D-I(shot i)-S

you are pretty surely INCORRECT!! HAHA!

:p

<-trouble maker

Well, we can all agree that it is a hard C as in the letter K

AE is a long A sound as in larvAE, although it CAN have almost a shot E sound as in AEsthetic, either way, it is both latin. and DES, is either sounding like DIS or just DES with a short E sound. The word is latin, and if it was a long E sound, it would be greek not latin.

no worries man, I was just pickin, i pronounce it Kaydes (short e) as well. cept my short e sounds more like uh (southern charm).

Can I propose a "thread lock" feature on the dev site? :-p

i prounce it saydz

I feel bad for Matthew (Dj_Creat). Doesn't the owner of the disscussion get a notification everytime somebody types something new?

haha yeah, imagine prismmagic and the "per caedes request discussion"

if I were him i would never check as read

I think the owner can opt to unsubscribe, like everyone else.

SSSSHHHH!!!

Not really sure ... but I do know how to spell it so I can direct them to this great site.

When I tell people about the site I always pronouce it as, "ca-days". Modify or comment as you want.

well it looks like latin, and my first instinct was to say "kai-dace" or "kai-des" but by the way we usually pronounce things it my best guess would be "kades."

advise everyone to read above b4 commenting, its getting repetative...

Well why would ae only be pronounced with ai as in aisle? What about Larvae, or Formulae? I've always said it as Kay-dis

ih? arg.....my mind is glowing!!!

The first time I saw "Caedes" I thought it was pronounced "SAY-deez". I scaned the comments and didn't see anyone else with this one, wait, just found one. Hummmm. Could be KAY-deez, or Kay-DEE-es or Say-E-deez, so on and so forth.....has anyone proposed Kay-a-DEE-es or Say-e-DEE-es

I think people are still commenting here because its linked in the FAQ?
at least yours was a lil new.

ya I agree with u noobguy but it is prnounced k-a-y-des

Sheesh.

Ah another Mystery of the ages.
I think we should just chalk it up their with did aliens actually build the pyramids?
And is there truly a Bermuda triangle Vortex.

"Caedes" is a Latin word meaning slaughter; from the Latin stem "caed" (kill/slaughter) > caedo (to kill/to slaughter). The correct (standard American italiante) pronunciation is chay dess. The accent is on the first syllable.

References: http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?stem=caed&ending=o and http://www.math.nyu.edu/~wendlc/pronunciation/Latin.html#diphthongs

Shouldn't it be kay-, not chay-

I think caedes is (kay-deez) lol, this is hurting my head... too hard

Good thing im such a comp nurd, i rarely am called to 'speak outloud'...never even considered the sound....was more trippen on what tha heck caedes'n was,...????
8 )~

A quick perusal of the posts above should solve that query. failing that, a look at this page should help, or maybe here.

I SAY IT'S "SAY-DEES"
Because that's what i read it as when i saw it...

It's pronounced kr-eye-zee in England, Kiwiland and Australia.

Sorry if this has been said before, but if you tell people about the site by saying it's "SAY-DEES" or "kay-deez" or "chay dess" or "Kay-dis" or anything else mentioned above you're STILL going to have to spell it to them before they stand a chance of finding it, so what's the point? Happy Kryssmss :-)

k-dez

I feel sorry for the 56k users who try to access this page -_-

I feel sorry for anyone who accesses this page.

I feel sorry for myself for being suckered yet again into reading more about this. Sheesh.

I feel sorry for myself for reading about you feeling sorry for yourself.

Nevermind...suddenly all pity has been sucked out of me -.-

I feel sorry for you, too, Dave.

pffffffft