I think that most people don’t fully consider the importance of the word “visions” until they hear me say it.
The word “vision” in the English language is “phantasm”. A vision is a thing or state of the mind. It’s something that we can see. It’s something that we can’t see, but we can hear and feel. In Greek and Latin, the word “phantasma” (literally “phantasm”) was used to describe such a thing.
In our language, we have two forms for the verb phantasia. The first is the past tense of the verb, phantasia, which means “seeing,” and the other is the present participle of the verb.
That’s where we run into trouble. We can’t just use the word “phantasia” in the present tense, which means seeing. It must be in the past tense. Because in English, the verb “see” has its usual past tense. But our word “phantasia” is in the present tense, so we can’t use it in the present tense. There are two ways of expressing it though.
The past tense is the most common one because it is the only one that sounds right to us. The past tense is more common because it is the easiest to use. The past tense is also the one we use most often. So because the past tense sounds right, but it isnt the most common, we use it most often.
So we pronounce visage (visual appearance) as “VEH-sage” and as “VEH-sage”.
This is the best way to pronounce it, as we don’t use the present tense, we use the past tense, and we pronounce visage as VEH-sage. You can also pronounce it visage as VEH-see or as VEH-see. I think the second one sounds better.
I cant think of any other way to pronounce it, but I guess we should use this as the official way to pronounce it.
No matter what your surname is, when you pronounce visage, you should always pronounce it as VEH-sage, not as VEH-sage. In other words, it should be pronounced as VEH-see or VEH-see. Thats the best way to pronounce it.
