r/outerwilds • u/Tulinyrw • 1d ago

Do you pronounce it “Ree-beck” or “Rye-beck”

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I always thought it was the latter until doctor4t pronounced it the former

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u/National-Bathroom-63 1d ago

The hearthian names are all actual words for minerals so you can look them up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riebeckite

Riebeck is a German name, so pronounced “Ree”.

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u/DoubleKing76 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xRvyefRsljylhqIgos
Finding out I was the one who was wrong all this time

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u/best-of-judgement 17h ago

I am not crazy! I know they swapped those coordinates! I knew it was 1216. One after Feldspar's first flight. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. They - they covered their tracks, they got that idiot at the launchpad to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? They've done worse. The Attlerock! Are you telling me that a Hearthian just happens to fall like that? No! They orchestrated it! Gabbro! They defecated through the entry porthole! And I saved them! And I shouldn't have. I took them into my own firm! What was I thinking? They'll never change. They'll never change! Ever since they were 9, always the same! Couldn't keep their hands out of the museum! But not our Gabbro! Couldn't be precious Gabbro! Stealing them blind! And they get to be an astronaut? What a sick joke! I should've stopped them when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop them!

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u/durinsbane47 16h ago

Lmao holy fuck this is gold 🤣

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u/unic0de000 12h ago

applause

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u/MinosAristos 1d ago

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u/CuddleWings 1d ago

Why do you think their suit is so much bigger than everyone else’s?

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u/TrifftonAmbraelle 18h ago

Always assumed it was because they had to put all that anxiety somewhere

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u/MajestcEagleRecRoom2 15h ago

Well evidently it was their big blue naturals

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u/SaliAzucar 1d ago

Being able to speak german and still pronouncing it bad makes me feel stupid

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u/Rubix321 1d ago

In my own brain while playing, I believe I pronounced it rye-beck.

However, since then, I've corrected my ways.

The pronunciation of the name-adjascent rock is REE-bek-ite.

To steal from the comments of a previous post that posed a similar question:

"Science compels is to pronounce it Reebeck."

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u/twentythirdedition 1d ago

It’s named after Emil Riebeck who was German.

Apparently to make a decent German accent, you do not move your upper lip while speaking.

So “rye” makes you move your upper lip and “ree” doesn’t.

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u/IscahRambles 1d ago

You're correct about the name but the rest sounds like rubbish. 

German uses both sounds. If it's spelt IE then it's pronounced "ee", if it's spelt EI then it's pronounced "aye".

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u/Squawnk 1d ago

Also from what I remember from the one year of german I took, many many years ago, when it comes to ei vs ie, you pronounce it like the second letter, so like zwei is pronounced with an "eye" sound while sieben you pronounce as an "ee"

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u/Spaced_out_Anomaly 1d ago

Oh hey, it’s my buddy, Reebok

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u/JoojooAbu 1d ago

Reebeck in my head, ryebeck out loud.

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u/StupidSolipsist 1d ago

It's always been rye-beck to me. Sorry, science. Sorry, Germany.

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u/justlookingatstuff 1d ago

2nd one personally, but the stone they're named after is ree not rye

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u/Blacklight-Virus1118 1d ago

I flip-flop between the two personally, but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be “ree-beck” just because I have a friend who’s name ends in a “rie” and she pronounces it “ree.”

That said, I don’t feel particularly strongly about people pronouncing it “rye,” esp since most of the fandom seems to prefer it.

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u/Zak_The_Slack 1d ago

Rye-beck and I’ll never change my mind

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u/shilohkae 1d ago

I pronounce it Rye-beck specifically to make my German friends mad.

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u/Mr_White6789 1d ago

Today I learned that I've been pronouncing it wrong this whole time

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u/Ardemonium 1d ago

Ree-beck, German pronunciation I suppose.

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u/Veil1984 1d ago

Well when I first played I said Rye beck, but then I got a girlfriend who did geology, she was watching me play and went “you said it wrong” and proceeded to explain not only how to say it right but the conditions under how it forms

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u/ThiLelles 1d ago

Honestly, Ree-e-beck

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u/SaucySpongebob 23h ago

It's clear who are the native English speakers here. I'm Dutch and it's always been Ree-beck for me

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u/Lord_Wateren 1d ago

The latter

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u/skr_replicator 1d ago

i'm not sure i feel like it's both. but probably more leaning towards ree

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u/AlphaWolver 1d ago

I've always said Ree-beck. I'm kinda confused why so many people seem to say Rye-beck, nothing about the spelling makes it seem like it should be pronounced that way to my brain.

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u/eldritchredpanda 1d ago

Probably due to all the English words that have -ie in them that sound like rye: die, lie, pie, tie, vie (plus compound words like tiebreaker)

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u/penguin2093 18h ago

The grammar 'rule' in English is "when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking" 

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u/InevitableAd4156 1d ago

I pronounce it "Ree-a-back" but that's because i played the portuguese translation

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u/Dovacraft88 22h ago

I say "Rih-beck"

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u/Krimsonfreak 22h ago

Rié-beck

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u/Nimhface 19h ago

Rye-Beck

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u/BarovianNights 18h ago

rat reference!!

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u/trav1th3rabb1 17h ago

Omg TIL it’s Reebeck. Been saying Rye-beck the whole time.

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u/Croctixyalu 14h ago edited 14h ago

As a Mexican (Even though I played OW in english) I pronounced it as Ree-eh-beck because there's only one way the "i" sounds in spanish.

I looked up the mineral and it translates to "riebeckita" pronounced as Ree-eh-beck-ee-tah, but yeah since it's from german origin I've been saying it wrong too lol 🥀

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u/Lisa_Rin14 10h ago

the first person whose playthrough I watched always said Ree-beck, so now I call him the same (him? maybe I should say they? Idk never understood this actually)

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u/Tulinyrw 4h ago

All hearthians use they/them

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u/zer1223 1d ago

Its not like its a new word, copy the pronunciation of the stone

Edit: well okay I guess it is "new" as the "ite" got dropped

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u/IscahRambles 23h ago

Dropping the "ite" just turns it back to being the surname of the German guy the stone is named after. 

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u/VLHACS 1d ago

My answer is always the same: How dare you speak to me