I've been saying 'Balatro' wrong this whole time... #gaming

so who was gonna tell me?

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[beretperson]

The pursuit of truth is always noble and I thank you for this information, but also, you hace ruined my life.

[Slashoom]

As the developer stated, we get to choose. Clearly, its Balatro.

[Bue_fruits]

Ok I think we can all agree balatro is pronounced balatro, not balatro

[flinnja]

all of the romans are dead they cant tell me how to say things

[danielmacgregor]

Latin teacher here. Strictly speaking, you can accent either the first or second syllable on this one due to a slightly obscure rule regarding syllable length. The "tr" combination allows a syllable with a preceding short vowel to be either long or short.

[solblackguy]

I just call it by it's American name, Digital Heroin

[criticorn]

Balatro is also an italian word and we indeed pronounce it bah-luh-tro

[edfreak]

i'm doing the way you assumed, "buh-LAH-tro"

[rionsanura]

tbf, Latin had different syllabic stress mechanisms. it was by length rather than by accent/loudness/pitch, so you can say you're pronouncing it right anyway since the lengths of all the syllables are debatable.

[joekaf]

The launch trailer pronounced it BAL-uh-tro, with the first syllable rhyming with "pal." The release date trailer pronounced it BAH-luh-tro. So the only way they didn't pronounce it themselves is the way that everyone else pronounces it.

[Nuzilicious]

"Bah-la [agressive la]- tro"

[The_Cadaver]

In American, it's "Balatro."

In European, it's "Balatro."

[pedroandrepiccoli]

I simply imagine an italian plumber saying “It’s a me- Ba - LAH - tro. And this feeling dictates my pronunciation

[Hollow_]

I've been saying Baltro for weeks now, I didn't realise the card on the logo was a letter 💀

[jimstoesz]

Man I hate it when people say "whichever makes you happy" to something that HAS to have an empirically correct answer. Being *RIGHT* makes me happy, damn it!

[wavehellhole]

Being so directionless that someone telling you that you can do whatever you like makes you sad is a vibe

[CopelandPlays]

My roommate and I couldn’t decide so we gust kept butchering it more and more. We now call the Balthazar

[jakobvanklinken]

Slight point of contention - basing it on some Latin pronunciation is a bit fishy. Even if we did know THE pronunciation of Latin words (which we don't), pronunciation and spelling varied wildly, even if there were efforts to standardise grammar in official documents. My point is, there may as well have been both these and many more pronunciations throughout the evolution of the language, and we should avoid saying one is better. Source: growing up in a prof Linguist household

[KaviDGaming]

Bal like the name "Sal" then luh-tro

Bal-luh-tro. This is how i will forever pronounce it

[waso_laso_sewi]

The Italian way, only "A" sounds, no schwa, trilled "r" and accent on the first syllable, then smaller accent on the last (I'm french btw)