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[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago
[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

The guide across the river Styx?

Yes.

Moon?

No.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago
[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

No it's not.

The mythology one is pronounced Karen

The moon is named partly after his wife so it sounds like Sharon.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

This guy is pronounced Karen

The moon like Sharon

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't make sense for the moon to be different than the god since it's named after him (hence why they chose that name for a moon of Pluto, lord of the underworld).

[-] geogle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Named for a dude's wife, Charlene, and shoehorns into an appropriate mythological figure

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago
[-] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

As a non English native: "Car on"

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's how I'd pronounce it too, as a native English speaker.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This is typically how it's pronounced in english.

in greek, the C is basically silent, and it's pronounced like Hair-on,

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 month ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

nobody really speaks ancient greek.

I think that's something that a lot of people (astronomers, in particular) seem to forget. This would be like walking around town speaking Middle English. Nobody would understand you. You've never heard one of Shakespear's plays in the same langauge Shakespear did- he used Early Modern English, and every play has been adapted to modern audiences;

some more fun facts... Charon, the moon, was technically named after Jame's Chrsity's wife. (he's the guy who found Charon.).. her name was Charlene. though he did see the connection to the ferryman of greek myths and find that appropriate as well. he pronounced it Shar-on

So. All that to say... Pronounce it how you like, there's options.

[-] lath@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] Darkard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sharon

Pronounce the Ch like Chiropodist.

Hmm? Cherry picked example? No, I'm more of a rum man myself.

[-] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Kerry picked example

[-] joe_archer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

All of the idiots in this thread thinking they know how it's pronounced.

It's pronounced charon. SMH.

[-] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sh'yeah-ron. The way Wayne from Wayne's World would have said it. 😏

Do you think I'm a gulli-bull? Or even a gulli-calf?

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago
[-] ns1@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

I always found it funny to read it as Sharon, and now you're telling me it's named after someone called Charlene? This keeps getting better

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago
[-] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The correct pronunciation is Chacarron. Rhymes with Macarron.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Well, Charon if I’ve been speaking Italian more recently & Charon if French

[-] Quik@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

Χάρων, of course

this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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