Drain-eye or Space Goat work well.
This is like asking if all elves come from Melmac since the singular use of their race name is elf or is it alf?
Night Alf
Blood Alf
Void Alf
High Alf
No Draenei would be your Waifu rodent.
The females actually have a joke about this.
In portuguese we say drae-nei, but some say dra-nei.
The real question… why did the Orcs go along with their planet being renamed after a race of alien goat-monsters that crash landed their spaceship and released a fallen Naaru that started eating their ancestor’s souls?
Like… not even kidding. Surely it had a name BEFORE the space goats arrived.
Drano.
/4or
I dunno if either of you are joking around, but the second post of the thread was the in game fem draenei joke typed out
Zorak, is that you?
Drah-NEYE
/shrug
I made a rather crass and foolish error. It appears I have put my foot in my mouth. It can be somewhat difficult to contextualize written posts, this is most embarrassing. Thank you for correcting me, I imagine that poster thinks me some sort of crazed loon or hooligan!
I say draebae
slaps Fenny’s hand Bad Fenny. What would Mrs. Fenny say?
She would say “Dioniss aca”
Has to think about that one for a minute
Fair enough.
Slaps Fenny’s hand again just because.
Carry on.
What the heck!!
You’re a blood elf. Be glad slapping your hand is all I did.
Yes but I’m a sweet and charming blood elf!
This is literally the longest conversation we’ve ever had, so how would I know that? am I supposed to take your word for it?
The fact is that whoever has made up names has chosen to use exotic spellings that have no obvious English pronunciation. Despite the fact that npc’s say “dren EYE”, in English the ‘ae’ has no particular pronunciation, and short vowels are signaled by double consonants. So the apparent pronunciation of ‘Draenei’ in English is ‘DRAIN-eye’.