How do YOU pronounce SELEM?

[James Lehman]

I think it's kinda neat to have voice conversations with PL peeps and hear it pronounced in many different ways.

It kinda' reflects the diversity of characters that appeared there!

James.

[DZ]

just take it from us brits that we say it right ..... as we invented the "god damn son of a bitch" language

This is why I speak AMERICAN! Or better yet, Southern North American. The south will rise again!

[dream beamz]

i dunno Sae-leeem

but FLEM is definitely flem like the stuff that comes out of the back of your throat. Why it this true, because Adams sons said so :-P

[James Lehman]

Yeah, I remember having flem streaming out of my computer!

James.

[buffo]

but FLEM is definitely flem like the stuff that comes out of the back of your throat. Why it this true, because Adams sons said so :-P

Yeah, and you see what happened to that whipper-snapper too, didn't you? His ass is on the west coast, on a ship! Haha! Teach him to sass me!

Actually, I've pretty much given up on FLEM. It's just too good a joke for people to resist pronouncing it "phlegm." Sigh...

Adam

[oliverst14@hotmail.com]

just to add my view iv always thought of it as saylem cause the cat out of sabrina the teenage witch was called this and spelt the same way (selem) i think. dont shout at me if im wrong

[Stuka]

This is why I speak AMERICAN! Or better yet, Southern North American. The south will rise again!

Yeah, what he said!!

Free Bird - Woo Hoo, Y'all!!

[keeperx]

based on logic and this thread, there are 3 proper pronunciations..

#1 se-leem, because thats what the guy that names the event calls it
#2 se-lem, because i have proven this is a proper pronunciation of the spelling and stated reference.
#3 sea-lem, because the E sound is from the word 'east' which is the root of the original.

so the answer is this:

S.E.L.E.M is an acronym and SHOULD be pronounced "es-ee-el-ee-em"
any other pronunciation is based on the will of the speaker and should be accepted by any attendee, so long as that pronunciation has some logical merit id is not offensive in any way (obviously the same rules would not apply to F.L.E.M.)

[colouredmirrorball]

based on logic and this thread, there are 3 proper pronunciations..

#1 se-leem, because thats what the guy that names the event calls it
#2 se-lem, because i have proven this is a proper pronunciation of the spelling and stated reference.
#3 sea-lem, because the E sound is from the word 'east' which is the root of the original.

so the answer is this:

S.E.L.E.M is an acronym and SHOULD be pronounced "es-ee-el-ee-em"
any other pronunciation is based on the will of the speaker and should be accepted by any attendee, so long as that pronunciation has some logical merit id is not offensive in any way (obviously the same rules would not apply to F.L.E.M.)

Whoa, we have a linguistic here!
In my opinion "es ee el ee em" is too long to be accepted, "selem", "seleem" or "sealem" is much shorter.
By the way we Dutch-speaking guys pronounce it as "See-lem" (and not "Sielem" or something you Anglo-Saxon speaking guys might pronounce it)

[mikkojay]

Yeah, Like SELEM DION- no, not really. Eh, definitely eh.