Important - how do you pronounce 'Live mode'

"simmerorigin;c-18260647" wrote:
It's abundantly clear that the only correct way to pronounce it is live rhyming with give.



Since Sims 1, the developers meant the three modes as to build, to buy, and to live. The parallelism makes this obvious. Moreover, live pronounced like alive doesn't make sense as it's NOT a live TV broadcast...you can pause and fast forward...definitely not live like alive!

Live like alive isn't an alternative, it's just incorrect. :smile:

Great evidence to prove everyone saying it like alive is wrong. Thankfully I found some patch notes that fixed this bug of people saying it wrong.

https://i.redd.it/i-was-looking-over-old-patch-notes-for-ts4-and-the-debate-v0-h0m8bzffxrta1.jpg?s=83292b45c752f0bee2d15ab63d14588df85dbb8f

Forget it.

Here's the box art for the Sims 1 console. I played it on PC first, at someone else's house, but when I actually bought it I had the Gamecube version. This is a Playstation one, but they had the same sleeve. It says "Control their lives" and "Get a life" rather than create, build, and live.
https://i.imgur.com/6OsZtTQ.jpg

Never mind.

I don't think anyone is taking this thread super seriously.

It's going to come down to personal preference.

"Is it live? Or is it Memorex?"

.... okay, I might be dating myself. :D

Live as in Hive
Mode as in Toad.

/laɪv//moʊd/

I have always said it as in Live, Laugh, Love. Never thought of it the other way.

In "Build" mode, build is a verbal adjective (participle).
In "Create a Sim" mode, create is a verb in an adjective phrase.

To maintain consistency, "Live" in "Live mode" must be a participle, and therefore must be pronounced in its verbal form, not its adjectival form.

Live as in alive because my thinking is that you go into action whenever you unpause the game. Although sometimes I do end up calling it live like in "let live" even though the previous option makes more sense to me.