Philip Hart wrote: >We use an accentual-syllabic system today for the most part, >but there are other ways of expressing a poem's meter. >Classical meters for example used long and short syllables. >Dzur is a very long syllable and might be thought to take up >the same time interval as a standard foot. This might >be an indication that Dragaeran prosody uses such a system. > > Of course translated poetry has some problems in fitting translated words into the original meter. The word "Dzur" appears to be grabbed in whole from the Dragaeran language. But it may be the closest approximation that Steve could come up to how an English speaker would hear some Dragaerans pronouncing that word. Variations within Dragaera are likely larger than variations within American English, and probably even English English. What would be interesting to hear is how a Hungarian speaker would pronounce that word. I suspect it sounds a lot like http://dragaera.info/encyclopedia/data/pg-test/pro-dzur-skzb-20040922-142.mp3 Which isn't a long syllable at all.