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40k Mispronunciations; Which ones really niggle you?
Topic Started: 26 Aug 2009, 03:27 PM (2,413 Views)
Roberto
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One of the guys at GW Manchester (when it used to be big) used to say Calagar instead of Calgar! Muppet!
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gun drone 3.0
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when I went to a gamesday in las vegas there was a lost and found table with the words lost tiranids here!
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Burnie
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When I started out in the hobby I had a friend who insisted Khorne was pronounced "Ka-horne"
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☺Doghouse
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I've called Chaplains Chaplins since first edition. Sounds weird to me to call them anything else now after twenty odd years..
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Shadowphrakt
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27 Aug 2009, 09:20 AM
Shadowphrakt
27 Aug 2009, 08:30 AM


sI-gismund


si-gismund seems fine to me - and just saying "its sigismund" is just spelling it, not showing any of the emphasis. Is it sig-is-mund, is it sigi-smund? Its a non-english name so I just don't know what the correct form would be.
You've obviously not read my post correctly. I am showing the emphasis. See the "sI"? Thats a capitol, showing the emphasis.
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Shadowphrakt
9 Sep 2009, 09:50 PM
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27 Aug 2009, 09:20 AM
Shadowphrakt
27 Aug 2009, 08:30 AM


sI-gismund


si-gismund seems fine to me - and just saying "its sigismund" is just spelling it, not showing any of the emphasis. Is it sig-is-mund, is it sigi-smund? Its a non-english name so I just don't know what the correct form would be.
You've obviously not read my post correctly. I am showing the emphasis. See the "sI"? Thats a capitol, showing the emphasis.
No, I made my point correctly.

Your complaint was sI-gismund - I got that. Your "its sigismund" correction was the point I was confused by, as the correction, to me at least, has no emphasis to show how it is phonetically that different.

Is it see-gis-mund or sig-ismund or s-aye-gismund? I still don't know.

Not trying to be awkward, but its a foreign name and I've not heard it before, only read it. :$


As a continuation of the topic though, I find one or two in daily use that really make me grind my teeth.

Anyone that says "Pacific" when they mean "Specific" usually has me biting my tongue in annoyance, even people I care dearly about use it and it gets to me. :X
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☺The Antipope
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Doghouse
9 Sep 2009, 09:46 PM
I've called Chaplains Chaplins since first edition. Sounds weird to me to call them anything else now after twenty odd years..
That's kind of a dialect thing maybe though? I can't say is hearing that would kill me.
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☺charlie_c67
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With chaplin/chaplain are you talking about it being pronounced chap-lin and chap-lane? Cos I believe the a is silent.
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☺The Antipope
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I say Chap-lane. I hope I haven't been wrong for two decades!
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9 Sep 2009, 10:28 PM
Is it see-gis-mund or sig-ismund or s-aye-gismund? I still don't know.


Sigismund is pronounced - sig-is-mund - or that is is how it is pronounced in the 'real world' whatever that is. ;)

As for Valkyrie - Val-keer-ee, i studied a lot under scandanavian teachers doing my History Degree, they all pronounce it as this. :D

 
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18 Sep 2009, 12:36 AM


As for Valkyrie - Val-keer-ee, i studied a lot under scandanavian teachers doing my History Degree, they all pronounce it as this. :D

I thought it odd when my friend pronounced it like that but it's true.That is how it should be said.
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Ovaltine Jones
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Val-keer-ie.

Hmmm. Can't think of any other way, actually. 'S just how it's said.
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☺The Antipope
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The way I would have said it is Val-Ki-Ri. But I was wrong. :)
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Brambleten
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for Valkyrie, i never had a clue, so i started saying it like its said in the film, so probably Valk-yer-ee.

as for chaplain, for me its always been chap-lin
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charlie_c67
10 Sep 2009, 04:19 PM
With chaplin/chaplain are you talking about it being pronounced chap-lin and chap-lane? Cos I believe the a is silent.
as far as i know and have heard here in that states that its chap-lin. and that is the only way i have heard it pronounced. plus i have a friend who is one for the police.
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Seriously you lot, how can you get so muddled up with words, lol.

Chaplain is said as - Chap-lin, as most of you have said already. Plenty of both bible bashers hanging around my Regiment. :P
 
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So Doghouse was right all along! :)
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TrooperPX
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Yea, my friend says "shim-mera"... I say "kai-mera".
He says "kah-ta-kans" ... I say "ca-ta-chans".

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☺Doghouse
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18 Sep 2009, 11:47 PM
Seriously you lot, how can you get so muddled up with words, lol.

Chaplain is said as - Chap-lin, as most of you have said already. Plenty of both bible bashers hanging around my Regiment. :P
Seriously? All these years and I thought I was being rebellious for saying it the wrong way! :D

Cheers for clearing that up mate. ;)
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19 Sep 2009, 03:27 AM
Yea, my friend says "shim-mera"... I say "kai-mera".
He says "kah-ta-kans" ... I say "ca-ta-chans".

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You are right on Chimera. But wrong on Catachans.
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