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40k Mispronunciations; Which ones really niggle you?
Topic Started: 26 Aug 2009, 03:27 PM (2,415 Views)
Ovaltine Jones
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I also used to pronounce the P in Pterodactyl.


Wha? How on earth would one say it like that? :P Pet-ero-dactyl?
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I dont say T-Zeench, but neither do i say zeench, i say something more like szeench, just add a bit of emphasis to the start of the z instead of letting it just slide off the tongue.

And i definately have always said Katakan, sound cooler than katachan IMHO. Plus its how GW pronounce it...
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we had a lovely mum come into the shop once looking for the maths game, "try and add attack"
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26 Aug 2009, 03:44 PM
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'.
See, I'd actually say that 'Arbites' was three syllables, not two - Ar-bee-tez, much the same way I'd say Astartes - Ah-star-tez. 'Arbites' would seem to be derived from 'arbitrator' which is Ar-bee-tray-tor, so I'd just add the 'tez' syllable after the first two of 'arbitrator'
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yeah, i pronounced it Arbeetayz
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☺charlie_c67
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Route, pronounced r-out...NOOOOOO!!!! A rout is when you get beaten overwhelmingly. A ROUTE is a planned journey.

Like Medieval and Mediaeval or Hematology and Haematology. Or dyslexic and dizlexik.
(I am one, therefore I can take the [tinkle] outta myself)
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With tzeench I kinda put a german ts sound on the front like you'd find with Tchuss
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Thats how I would pronouce it
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☺Dave38x
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bang on mike, thats what i was after :)
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I knew someone at our school club who used to pronounce annihilation as an-hill-asion that was pretty annoying.

Slightly off topic is it dat-a or day-ta

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Slightly off topic is it dat-a or day-ta

:p


I think either is acceptable, although with my accent both sound about the same.

Saying that your data is _____, on the other hand, is completely unacceptable.
Edited by Ovaltine Jones, 26 Aug 2009, 11:15 PM.
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is what?

your data is what?

crap? a pile of sweaty bollocks?

good?

accurate?

flawed?

and re: the data debate, depends on your accent. an englishman who said dat-a would get laughed into the atlantic :P
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I routinely mispronounce "Tyranid" as Zerg just to get a rise outta one of our group
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26 Aug 2009, 11:18 PM
is what?
Your data is nothing. Your data are. Data is the plural of datum.

Drives me nuts.
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lol, fairs fair, however i believe the english language (as bastardised as it is in places) does in fact make an exception for a few words when it comes to plurality (a word that i just made up), and im pretty certain that one can say "the data is" just like one can say "the gaggle is" (data is lots of datums (forgive the word mangling, its just to make my point :P, a gaggle is lots of geese...)
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i am always screwing up how i say words because when i read them my mind reorders the letters and i don't notice it until i have someone point it out to me then i go back to the source word and i am like " oh really i thought it was ..." but then again most of the time i am typing and not talking so then its just the fact that i can't spell worth a hill of beans.
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lol, fairs fair, however i believe the english language (as bastardised as it is in places) does in fact make an exception for a few words when it comes to plurality (a word that i just made up), and im pretty certain that one can say "the data is" just like one can say "the gaggle is" (data is lots of datums (forgive the word mangling, its just to make my point :P, a gaggle is lots of geese...)


Well, since data/datum is lifted straight from Latin, some leeway in plurality is acceptable.

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

-Booker T. Washington.
Edited by Ovaltine Jones, 26 Aug 2009, 11:55 PM.
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Brother_Chaplian Raimo
26 Aug 2009, 07:17 PM
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I also used to pronounce the P in Pterodactyl.


Wha? How on earth would one say it like that? :P Pet-ero-dactyl?
Yes. :$
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26 Aug 2009, 11:51 PM
i am always screwing up how i say words because when i read them my mind reorders the letters and i don't notice it until i have someone point it out to me then i go back to the source word and i am like " oh really i thought it was ..." but then again most of the time i am typing and not talking so then its just the fact that i can't spell worth a hill of beans.
You ever been tested for dyslexia mate? Cos that sounds rather like an indication of it. You should hear me speak sometimes. Aged Grandparents and spoonerisms about Frank Whittle do not mix well...
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I've hear lisander instead of lYsander, which, as an imperial fist die-hard, [tinkle]ed me off no end.

Other ones:

sI-gismund. I mean seriously, its sigismund.

Gil-GAlad. Its Gil-galad. ffs. learn to speak elvish, noo
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