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| 40k Mispronunciations; Which ones really niggle you? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: 26 Aug 2009, 03:27 PM (2,410 Views) | |
| ☺Dave38x | 26 Aug 2009, 03:27 PM Post #1 |
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Hey guys, inspired by Ricky's mini rant on elotsips renegade militia thread, i thought i'd see what other anoying misspellings/misspronunciations there are out there. First three from me: Bloodpack instead of Blood Pact. As ricky says, sounds like an aweful hip hop group. Pronouncing Lascannon Layzcannon, not Lazcannon. If it was meant to be pronounced the other way they would have put a y in the name. Chimera pronounced with a 'CH' sound not a 'C' sound. Seriously. And finally.... TRYANIDS! If they were pronounced like that they would have been spelt like that ![]() Any others guys? Edited by Dave38x, 26 Aug 2009, 03:28 PM.
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| Mawa | 26 Aug 2009, 03:33 PM Post #2 |
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AQUILA - Do you say it A-Quill-a or A-killa ?? Also how do you say Macragge? |
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| ☺Dave38x | 26 Aug 2009, 03:34 PM Post #3 |
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personally i pronounce it akEELa, i know the romans pronounced the word aQUILLa, i just prefer the other way... |
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| voiceofthewarp | 26 Aug 2009, 03:38 PM Post #4 |
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Emporer instead of Emperor is a classic. I so believe Chimera is pronounced more like Khi-meera though ![]() -voiceofthewarp |
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| Mawa | 26 Aug 2009, 03:41 PM Post #5 |
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I have a habit of jokingly referring to Cadians as Canadians mostly to wind a mate up. |
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| ☺highmarshaldave | 26 Aug 2009, 03:44 PM Post #6 |
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Arbites is one of my favourites. And Adeptus. For a start, Arbites has two sylables, not one, and should roll of the tongue as Ar-beetes. And Adeptus should be pronounce with an 'ou' sound, not an 'o'. Oh, and Tau. I once had a Sunday beginers kid who pronounced it Tay. Yes, like the river. Dave out. |
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| # Digits | 26 Aug 2009, 03:47 PM Post #7 |
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Catachan is the obvious one. According to GW it's kat-a-can ! Doofusses! |
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| # the_great_gonzo | 26 Aug 2009, 03:52 PM Post #8 |
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the english language is so good when converted to high gothic and back again. |
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| Corrupt | 26 Aug 2009, 03:53 PM Post #9 |
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How do you even say that with just one sylable |
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| ☺highmarshaldave | 26 Aug 2009, 04:04 PM Post #10 |
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I meant discernable sylables. If you say it as Ar-bites, it melds into one into sound. Dave out. |
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| Brambleten | 26 Aug 2009, 04:12 PM Post #11 |
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mechrite red usually gets me. after trying to say mera-kite red, i usually just go for foundation red
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| ☺The Antipope | 26 Aug 2009, 05:25 PM Post #12 |
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Tyranids being pronounced is Tie-ranids. It's pronounced Ti-ranids. If you wan't to argue that one check out the ingame tut in Fire Warrior or Dawn of War 2. Yeah, Bloodpack really annoys me. Theres been a spate of 'Khrone' recently as well. |
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| alextheartist | 26 Aug 2009, 06:10 PM Post #13 |
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Tallarn gets on my nerves
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| Brambleten | 26 Aug 2009, 06:29 PM Post #14 |
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when my mates mispronounce Dark Angels, you can tell. and its not Dark Angles. |
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| Ovaltine Jones | 26 Aug 2009, 06:42 PM Post #15 |
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Oh, man. Let's see... Chimera. Kai-mera. Not chai-mera, and most certainly not chim-era. Las-whatever. Laz. Not layz. Sentinels. You wouldn't think it, but just yesterday somebody was saying Centennials. Yeah. Astartes. As-tar-tes. Just like it's spelled. No, it's not pronounced Ass-tarts. That would be silly, and rather suspect. Tau. Simple, no? It's sure not tay-oo. Let's not even start on Tzeench. I mean, really. |
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| Brambleten | 26 Aug 2009, 06:48 PM Post #16 |
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lucky i was leaning away from the screen when i saw that, i just snorted pepsi everywhere. so, there are Ass-tarts of the Dark Angels Chapter, and some of which wear bone coloured armour? that at least deserves a lol. sorry, i've had a long day, and im slightly hyper at the moment |
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| ☺The Antipope | 26 Aug 2009, 07:07 PM Post #17 |
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You could try spelling it right as in this thread such a comment could easily be interpreted in an ironic fashion Raimo. How do you pronounce it anyway. Is the T silent? |
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| alextheartist | 26 Aug 2009, 07:10 PM Post #18 |
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zeen-ch |
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| Ovaltine Jones | 26 Aug 2009, 07:12 PM Post #19 |
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*facepalm* Well, it's a good thing we have no capacity for irony, then, isn't it? For the record, I say it Zeench. Edited by Ovaltine Jones, 26 Aug 2009, 07:13 PM.
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| ☺The Antipope | 26 Aug 2009, 07:14 PM Post #20 |
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I thought that's how you said it. As a very wee lad I used to pronounce the T in it but then I also used to pronounce the P in Pterodactyl. |
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