I pronounce it Eddie. Neither he nor she, as it's a robot with no manly or ladybits.

I call him....friend....

No, but seriously. I always yell at him, "Eddie, nooooooo!" whenever he floats in front of my bullets.

EDI is a lady.

She likes to beep alot, Just like the lady i know.

Me too, I have no idea how I started :facepalm:

The Charon example proves nothing, you can't possibly know how they intended Charon's name to be pronounced. Do you even know how its actually pronounced Karen either way its still a girls name.

The real truth behind Charon's pronunciation, he was obviously named after the moon and not the greek mythological figure.
James W. Christy the discoverer of pluto's moon wanted to name it Charon as a scientific-sounding version of his wife Charlene's nickname, "Char." and he pronounced the CH as SH.[this is also now they pronounce it as NASA]. It was only after purposing the name he learned about Charon also being the greek ferryman of the dead, associated Hades who the Romans called Pluto. So actually Bethesda's voice actor pronounced the name Charon correctly, he just used NASA's pronunciation of the pluto's moon instead of the greek pronunciation of the ferryman

References don't have to be SPOT on, and they rarely are. Nuka Cola for example is called Nuka Cola and not Coke a Cola, by your logic it should be pronounced Coke a Cola because thats the reference. So obviously names don't need to be exact for the reference.
So ED-E can easily be meant to reference Eddy in the same way Nuka Cola references Coke-a Cola

1) I said nothing about Nuka Cola so I don't see where that is coming from. I don't see anyone discussing different ways to say the word "nuka" so that comparison seems entirely pointless.

2) The only point you've made is that Nasa astronomers are illiterate idiots without any form of culture whatsoever because (according to the Oxford English Dictionary or the Merriam Webster Dictionary) there is only ONE pronunciation of "Charon" (whether we're talking about the ferryman of the dead in Greek mythology or Pluto's largest satellite).

3) There is absolutely nothing obvious about what you're saying. Ghouls are in a place called Underworld and there are other references to Greek mythology pointing at Hades (think about the robot Cerberus). You take it for granted that Charon is named after the former planet Pluto and not Greek mythology and that is not supported by anything except your misconceptions.

4) Listen to http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?charon01.wav=Charon and tell me it sounds as girly as "Sharon" or if you still hear "Karen" (in that case check if you don't have something stopping your ears).

Personally I pronounce it like Wall-E where it's Ed then just E. However when pronounced it will sound like Eddy.

I Pronounce him as "flying Suitcase"

Eddy

I call it a few different things.

When it's done something dumb, like taking off to fight an enemy that isn't there, I do what my mom did to me and I call it by its full name: Eyebot Duraframe E, just WHAT in the HELL do you THINK you are DOing???

When it's being a real POS, I call it Stupid Robot. But with a lot more swearing.

During the casual times, when the Stupid Robot is actually behaving, I pronounce the name as "Eddy"

I'm sure it's eddy/eddie, the name of his quest is a refference to the song Eddie my love.

I call it "Get out from in front of me, you flying piece of... screw it. BLAM!" thanks to his tendency to buzz right into the line of fire just as I'm about to snipe someone in the head.

I've lost count of how many times I've put down that floating tin can, accidentally or deliberately. I'd just ditch him, but that perk is too convenient.

Oh, I get pissed at EDI because of her [censored] music, I'm like sneaking and all the sudden *American National Theme Playing* "[censored] E-DE WHAT THE [censored]!? I'M SNE-" *Boom Headshot*

Edie. Because it's always pronounced Eee-Dee-Eee. And the Asimov'ian Laws of Robot Naming Which I Totally Not Made Up say that the closest sounding person's name shall be the nickname of the model you use.

I am flabbergasted that this topic has gone to 4 pages :goodjob:

Being old and lazy I haven't read them all so forgive me as I am sure I am repeating yourselves.

ED-E is an acronym (arguably an abbreviation) for the designation: Eyebot (Duraframe)_Subject E , thus: ED-E (The "S" was dropped because of a penchant for creating acronyms that can be pronounced or related easily to real terms.

Unlike R2D2 and C3PO most acronyms become well known because of this relation to real-world words (Often having nothing to do with the subject.) This is particularly true in government and rampant in the military.

Having a personal connection to this subject—my name, after all is Ed—I am naturally drawn to the pronunciation as: Eddie.

I cannot see the derivation of Edie (The female name pronounced EEE-DEE.) because the acronym would then have been E-DE or simply E-D. Likewise saying E-D-E(EEE-DEE-EEE) Whatever happened to Carlos mencia? (Dee-Duh-Dee)

BTW I just call him Edouard Jr. "Say hallo to my leetle friend!"

I call it ED E.

The point was that a name has to be exact for it to be a reference. Nuka Cola references Coka A Cola without the coke.


My point illustrates that your close idea there is only one pronunciation is 100% false. If they heard now NASA pronounces the moon naturally they would pronounce Charon the same way in the game. The guy James found the rock, he thus got to named the rock so he and NASA get to decide how its pronounced. They pronounce it in English rather then Latin.


You may want to check your own ears, its pronounced {kair'-uhn} according to the dictionary, which sounds just like Karen. To double check I put kair'-uhn into TextEdit and chose speak text. Its still Karen.

His name is said E-D-E by the voice actor only YOUR misconceptions say otherwise. Until you can come up with evidence the voice actor is wrong. He can still references the song as E-D-E my love.

That's what I'd assume too, plus, it seems to be a common trope in fiction for robots and AIs to have names that are an acronym for something (As ED-E is as well.) but just happen to spell out what sounds like a name a real person might have. While in this case, the acronym doesn't actually spell out "Eddie", or any other name, it could potentially be pronounced that way, I'd say that's most likely how it was intended to be read. Still, I usually just think of the name as being pronounced like the letters "E" 'D" and "E". In other words "EE DEE EE". It just seems more appropriate for a robot that in no way resembles a human and is silent except for the occassional beeping and playing music when a threat is spotted. Giving a robot a normal sounding name seems more appropriate when said robot seems a little more... human, like say, Victor. Sure, that robot doesn't look human, obviously, but between having a voice, being programmed with a fairly distinct personality, and that cartoon cowboy face on the screen, he still feels much more human than an Eyebot. Besides, when a name like ED-E is pronounced as "Eddie", it tends to make me think of a certain Pixar movie.

Come to think of it, I think I'd have preferred if the robot companion was a Securitron rather than an Eyebot, but that's beside the point.



Of course, there's no guarentee that their knowledge is completely accurate either. Though judging from the fact that I recall Arcade Gannon also spoke at least one Latin phrase once, they obviously have some information on the language.

I tend to think of Caesar, when used as the name of the leader of Caesar's Legion, as being pronounced the way most people in the Legion pronounce it, though. Primarily because I like the sound of it better than how others pronounce it. Besides, since Caesar chose to use that name himself, he gets to choose how to pronounce it, and that's obviously the pronunciation he chose to use. But that's a different matter.



I don't know, I have a hard time thinking of ED-E in feminine terms. And while ED-E is usually just referred to as "it" in the game, I'm pretty sure I recall one instance of "he" being used to refer to the robot, so if I were to assign any gender to ED-E, it would be male.

I say EEE-DEE

I pronounce it Ee-dee-ee. Rhymes with Eazy E.

I pronounce it as Eedee in my head

There is a reason why the OED and the Merriam Webster are considered to be the main references as far as the English language is concerned and NASA astronomers are not. :facepalm:

Looking at all the "typos" in your post I reach the conclusion that it's certainly pointless to discuss English with you. No offense, English is certainly not Latin, but it doesn't mean that you should blatantly ignore syntax and grammar.

Needless to quote, as many but already did, but what to do?

I totally did that too.

Its both. Spoken as an acronym, it is E-D-E. As a naming device to help remember it, it is "Eddie", just like WALL-E is spoken as "Wallie", and the NCR ranger vet armor is H3RM35, or Hermes.

Though the choice of spelling leads me to believe it is indeed "Eddie". The dash blatantly breaks up the acronym into 2 distinct groups, "ED" and "E".

flying robotic thing that shoot LAZORZ!!!!and yeah its eee-deee btw