Thanks! Catachan was the main one, as I have a friend who said it is pronounced "cuh-tah-shun". I always pronounced it "cat-a-chan", so I am glad about that.
When I was much younger, an eldar-playing friend of mine insisted on pronouncing 'shuriken' as sh'-REE-ken. This annoyed me immensely. He also had some absolutely horrible way of saying 'exarch' but I've wiped it from my memory.
One that's always bothered me is C'tan. I have heard about 4 different pronunciations of the word.
K-tahn
K-tan
Sigh-tahn
Sigh-tan
The last two are, admittedly from a guy who has a mild case of dyslexia (that he got checked, legitimately), so he has issues with pronunciation in general.
I always said it sih-tan, and so has everyone I play with.
Also, if it helps anyone's opinion on Baal, in Diablo II during the cinematic they pronounce it like Bayle. Not that Blizzard is the authority on pronunciation or anything.
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lledwey wrote:I always said it sih-tan, and so has everyone I play with.
Also, if it helps anyone's opinion on Baal, in Diablo II during the cinematic they pronounce it like Bayle. Not that Blizzard is the authority on pronunciation or anything.
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Vox definitely rhymes with vox, huh? So helpful.
I believe it is pronounced Vocks (as in, rhymes with fox). It's how they say it in the video games, the few times it comes up.
There a few things over the years I've heard that have made me grind my teeth but, Chimera spoken as "Chim-ER-ah" was the worst. Though to be honest, I used to pronounce Chaos as "Chay-oz"... but i was 9. I miss HeroQuest.
Oh BTW if anyone is interested, and doesn't already know, the Eldar Craftworlds are all named after the pagan(druidic/celtic?) seasons. I used to call Saam Hein(spelling?) "Sam Haine" until a lady friend overheard me and corrected me.
certaintly no h at the end. we don't have former Archs running around.
I kind of assume it was in response to me saying a friend of mine severely mispronounced it. Obviously it's ex-arc, accidentally mispronouncing such a straightforward word shouldn't be possible. Much like cat-a-chan.
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DeffDred wrote:There a few things over the years I've heard that have made me grind my teeth but, Chimera spoken as "Chim-ER-ah" was the worst.
oh man, chim-er-ah is rampant, it's really a bit of an indictment on the hobby community when so many people mangle non-fictional words.
DeffDred wrote:There a few things over the years I've heard that have made me grind my teeth but, Chimera spoken as "Chim-ER-ah" was the worst. Though to be honest, I used to pronounce Chaos as "Chay-oz"... but i was 9. I miss HeroQuest.
It's Kai-me-ra.
When we much younger we stuggled a bit with B'jorn the fell handed. I think we had to be introduced to ABBA to get it properly, I say 'we', I wasn't the one playing Space Wolves.
Locclo wrote:One that's always bothered me is C'tan. I have heard about 4 different pronunciations of the word.
forruner_mercy wrote:The great thing about Latin is, most of the time, it is pronounced as it is spelled. Unlike a certain language (*cough* English *cough*).
English is a weird language.
A lot of English is based on Latin, but often run through other languages first.
Aquila gets said around here as "a cwi la".
C'tan is "S'tan", with a short S.
Slaanesh, I stretch the Aa as "Slahnesh".
Exarch is from the same origins as Arch angel (that's "ark angel"), so "ex arc", with a soft ending.
Baal as "Bahl".
Oh BTW if anyone is interested, and doesn't already know, the Eldar Craftworlds are all named after the pagan(druidic/celtic?) seasons. I used to call Saam Hein(spelling?) "Sam Haine" until a lady friend overheard me and corrected me.
Cant comment on the Druidic seasons but the only two from the Celtic calendar are:
Saim-Hann (Samhain. Samhain whilst being a season is best know for the festival of Halloween)
Bieltan (Beltan)
The other two Celtic seasons are Imbolc and Lughnasadh.
Fairly sure the pagan calendar dosent have any direct season translations either to the likes of Ulthwe, Alaitoc, Yem-Loc etc. However it is possible the Scots/Manx/Welsh Gaelic has closer approximations.
People in our group say Ka-ta-kan, and it annoys the hell out of me.
I say K-tan (hard 'c') and not sea-tan.
I pronounce Baal like they do on Stargate - "Baahl" (not Bayle like in Diablo II, or Ba-ahl as two syllables - it would be Ba'al then, rather than Baal).
And anyone who says Layz-cannon gets slapped.
DeffDred wrote:There a few things over the years I've heard that have made me grind my teeth but, Chimera spoken as "Chim-ER-ah" was the worst.
See I do that and I know it's wrong. But when the Chimera was first introduced all the way back in the Titan Legions days I was very young, and did not know what a Chimera actually was.
Oh BTW if anyone is interested, and doesn't already know, the Eldar Craftworlds are all named after the pagan(druidic/celtic?) seasons. I used to call Saam Hein(spelling?) "Sam Haine" until a lady friend overheard me and corrected me.
Cant comment on the Druidic seasons but the only two from the Celtic calendar are:
Saim-Hann (Samhain. Samhain whilst being a season is best know for the festival of Halloween)
Bieltan (Beltan)
The other two Celtic seasons are Imbolc and Lughnasadh.
Fairly sure the pagan calendar dosent have any direct season translations either to the likes of Ulthwe, Alaitoc, Yem-Loc etc. However it is possible the Scots/Manx/Welsh Gaelic has closer approximations.
It's actually spelled Bealtaine to be completely correct, and pronounced 'Byow-the na'.
Locclo wrote:One that's always bothered me is C'tan. I have heard about 4 different pronunciations of the word.
K-tahn
K-tan
Sigh-tahn
Sigh-tan
The last two are, admittedly from a guy who has a mild case of dyslexia (that he got checked, legitimately), so he has issues with pronunciation in general.
Allan Meritt pronounces 'Roboute Guilliman' as 'Rah-boo-tah Gooh-li-man', not the way it is in that video. And he's the head of IP, so he might win out here.
Oh BTW if anyone is interested, and doesn't already know, the Eldar Craftworlds are all named after the pagan(druidic/celtic?) seasons. I used to call Saam Hein(spelling?) "Sam Haine" until a lady friend overheard me and corrected me.
Cant comment on the Druidic seasons but the only two from the Celtic calendar are:
Saim-Hann (Samhain. Samhain whilst being a season is best know for the festival of Halloween)
Bieltan (Beltan)
The other two Celtic seasons are Imbolc and Lughnasadh.
Fairly sure the pagan calendar dosent have any direct season translations either to the likes of Ulthwe, Alaitoc, Yem-Loc etc. However it is possible the Scots/Manx/Welsh Gaelic has closer approximations.
There's Yule in that list of festivals, amongst others.
Those above are pronounced "Sow-in" for Samhain and "Loo nassa" for Lughnasadh.
You'll have to find a speaker of Celtic ("Kel tik") languages to tell you the rest.
The Craftworlds are not pronounced the same way, though.
I always thought it was Mac-ridge (say it out loud...). I heard it pronounced Muh-crag on the Space marine movie and it took me a minute to even realize what they were talking about because 'Mac-ridge' seemed so natural.
Muh-crag though? My first thoughts are 'Muh-crack', which then devolves into 'I got some monkey butt in 'Muh-crack'", then I chuckly at my childishly witty humor.
I always thought it was Mac-ridge (say it out loud...). I heard it pronounced Muh-crag on the Space marine movie and it took me a minute to even realize what they were talking about because 'Mac-ridge' seemed so natural.
Muh-crag though? My first thoughts are 'Muh-crack', which then devolves into 'I got some monkey but in 'Muh-crack'", then I chuckly at my childishly witty humor.
Worms
Its Muh-crag. It helps if you say it with a cheezy scottish accent too
I always thought it was Mac-ridge (say it out loud...). I heard it pronounced Muh-crag on the Space marine movie and it took me a minute to even realize what they were talking about because 'Mac-ridge' seemed so natural.
Muh-crag though? My first thoughts are 'Muh-crack', which then devolves into 'I got some monkey but in 'Muh-crack'", then I chuckly at my childishly witty humor.
Worms
Its Muh-crag. It helps if you say it with a cheezy scottish accent too
"Hey, we're out of milk. Go run down to the shop and pick up a gallon... FOR MACRAGGE!"
"I took the day off so I could hit the beach while the weather's nice FOR MACRAGGE!"
and so forth.
"Samhain" is, incidentally, not pronounced "Sam Haine", but that is because English and Gaelic letters are not pronounced remotely the same, and most of the people reading it speak the former and none of the latter.
The pronunciation also changes depending on which Gaelic language you're speaking, but "sow-un" is pretty close to the mark.
Likewise, "Beltane" is not "bell-tain", "bee-yawl-tin-nuh" or something like that is more appropriate, though that's a best-effort attempt.
For me:
Aquila = a-kwi-la (from Latin)
Catachan = cat-a-chan (I know there was mention in WD long ago that says otherwise, but this way sounds better to me )
Chimera = kai-meeh-ra (though it is stemmed from the Ancient Greek Khimaira, pronounced kim-eye-ra with a strong aspiration on the K, though English speakers tend to just use a normal K)
C'Tan = ka-tahn (similar spelling to C'thulu; in English, the letter C is usually only soft when followed by a vowel)
Deus ex = day-us eks (from Latin)
Exarch = eks-ark ("ex" is obvious; "arch" comes from the Greek word arkhon, "ruler"; see above note about aspirations)
Khorne = korn (with a slight aspiration on the K)
Primarch = prime-ark (see exarch)
Sanguinius = san-gwin-ee-us (from Latin sanguis, "blood")
Slaanesh = sla-nesh
Tzeentch = zeentch (with a very faint T at the start; my girlfriend prefers to call him "Sneeze")
Vox = voks (from Latin)
Grey Templar wrote:See-Tan,
Baal is pronounced like the Middle Eastern God of the same name. B-ale as in a Bale of Hay.
Agreed with your pronunciation of Baal, I always associated it with the Phoenician god.
But how do you get that pronunciation of C'Tan? While I don't think it's necessarily wrong, I'm genuinely interested as to why a lot of people are adamant that it is pronounced that way, but I can't think of any precedent for it.
Baal is pronounced like the Middle Eastern God of the same name. B-ale as in a Bale of Hay.
Agreed with your pronunciation of Baal, I always associated it with the Phoenician god.
But how do you get that pronunciation of C'Tan? The only other thing with remotely similar spelling that I can think of is C'thulu (and its various different spellings), so I'm interested to see the reason so many people pronounce it with a soft C.
I don't know where se-tan is coming from, when I first saw the word c'tan used, I instantly thought "It must be pronounced like c'thulhu" so I'm petty sure it's ka-tan, but my friend thinks it's ka-tawn. but catachan is exactly how its spelled.
Baal is pronounced like the Middle Eastern God of the same name. B-ale as in a Bale of Hay.
Agreed with your pronunciation of Baal, I always associated it with the Phoenician god.
But how do you get that pronunciation of C'Tan? The only other thing with remotely similar spelling that I can think of is C'thulu (and its various different spellings), so I'm interested to see the reason so many people pronounce it with a soft C.
It's Ka-Tan and Ka-thu-lu.
That's my point. I pronounce it "ka-tahn" because of "ka-thu-lu", but a lot of people pronounce it "see-tan" (and a few people locally actually get annoyed when you say "ka-tahn") and I can't find a reason for it.
Baal is pronounced like the Middle Eastern God of the same name. B-ale as in a Bale of Hay.
Agreed with your pronunciation of Baal, I always associated it with the Phoenician god.
But how do you get that pronunciation of C'Tan? The only other thing with remotely similar spelling that I can think of is C'thulu (and its various different spellings), so I'm interested to see the reason so many people pronounce it with a soft C.
It's Ka-Tan and Ka-thu-lu.
Actually, the h is voluntary by Lovecraft's own admission, so Ka-tu-lu is equally valid.
This reminds me of when i read Harry Potter and read Hermione as 'Hermy-own'.
Although i was corrected i still couldn't read it how its supposed to be. She will always be Hermy-own to me.
Oh and I just remembered this idiotic bloke who live next village, and his english skills are less that crap. So listening to him say Sergeant is horrible. I corrected his SER-GEE-ANT a billion times, but he wouldn't listen.AARGH!
Barrington wrote:This reminds me of when i read Harry Potter and read Hermione as 'Hermy-own'.
Although i was corrected i still couldn't read it how its supposed to be. She will always be Hermy-own to me.
Which is exactly how the Bulgarian Quiddich player pronounces it.
sirrah wrote:When I was much younger, an eldar-playing friend of mine insisted on pronouncing 'shuriken' as sh'-REE-ken. This annoyed me immensely. He also had some absolutely horrible way of saying 'exarch' but I've wiped it from my memory.
I know people who insisted me on pronouncing Kasrkin as Kah-ras-keen. The things came clear after careful reading of word "kasrkin".
Glad THQ got it right! I hate how most American media can't pronounce this word properly.
Actually, it's a geographic matter. British troops use Lef-tenant, just about everyone else uses Loo-tenant.
Britishness is one of Warhammer 40,000's quirks, it's pleasing to see THQ acknowledge that.
The arguements over lef-tenant/loo-tenant always amuse me; the term originates in Old French, and pre-dates the distinction on paper between 'u' and 'v' sounds, meaning either is technically correct. Old Scots indeed spells it 'leftenant'.
Obviously being a Britisher I take great delight in insisting ours to be the more correct...
How does one get 'Lef' out of 'Lieu' though? In English there isn't a way to get an 'eff' sound except from 'f' and 'ph' - neither of which are in the spelling of Lieutenant.
Worms4u wrote:How does one get 'Lef' out of 'Lieu' though? In English there isn't a way to get an 'eff' sound except from 'f' and 'ph' - neither of which are in the spelling of Lieutenant.
That's what confuses me.
Worms
Because, as I said, at the time the word came into common usage, 'u' was written as 'v' and sometimes pronounced as such, giving one 'levtenant'. Printing and standardisation of languages were several centuries in the future.
Cheexsta wrote:For me: Aquila = a-kwi-la (from Latin) Catachan = cat-a-chan (I know there was mention in WD long ago that says otherwise, but this way sounds better to me ) Chimera = kai-meeh-ra (though it is stemmed from the Ancient Greek Khimaira, pronounced kim-eye-ra with a strong aspiration on the K, though English speakers tend to just use a normal K) C'Tan = ka-tahn (similar spelling to C'thulu; in English, the letter C is usually only soft when followed by a vowel) Deus ex = day-us eks (from Latin) Exarch = eks-ark ("ex" is obvious; "arch" comes from the Greek word arkhon, "ruler"; see above note about aspirations) Khorne = korn (with a slight aspiration on the K) Primarch = prime-ark (see exarch) Sanguinius = san-gwin-ee-us (from Latin sanguis, "blood") Slaanesh = slaah-nesh (I don't live in Boston - nobody real pronounces 'a's that way.) Tzeentch = zeentch (with a very faint T at the start; my girlfriend prefers to call him "Sneeze") Vox = voks (from Latin)
Mine are: Ah-kee-la. Cat-a-chan (how it is spelled). Ki-mer-ah. Kə-tan (that upside down 'e' is a short 'uh' sound. It's a phonetic often used in "The" (which is not supposed to have a long 'ee' sound). Day-us Eks Ex-ark Korn Primm-ark. Like a certain church officials are a primm-at (not a prime-ate, which would be an ape or monkey man) or a Prell-at, not pre-late. Slah-nesh Zeentch, but there is a soft 'T' sound to start with (I learned to say the 'z' letter as "tset", so many of the words I say with a 'z' come off as "Ts-". Vox - even though I KNOW "wox" is closer to the actual.
Worms4u wrote:How does one get 'Lef' out of 'Lieu' though? In English there isn't a way to get an 'eff' sound except from 'f' and 'ph'...
Not true - "tough"
Reminds me of the joke about how you could spell "fish" as "ghoti"... Google it if you can't figure it out.
chromedog wrote:
Vox - even though I KNOW "wox" is closer to the actual.
I suppose it depends on the era of Latin. Classical Latin (which is the one I'm more familiar with) lacked a "v" sound, but it IIRC existed in the medieval period. GW's pseudo-Latin is very much an Anglicised form of later Latin, so I imagine the "v" should be pronounced.
chromedog wrote:Maybe if you're a churchie or Catholic school outcast.
That's how GW have it pronounced in their OWN audiobooks (ah-kee-la)
Since when has GW been a reliable source of how to pronounce something.
This isn't a word they made up, its straight Latin and there is a right way to say it. With living languages there can be multiple ways to say something, but with dead languages there is only one way.
Worms4u wrote:How does one get 'Lef' out of 'Lieu' though? In English there isn't a way to get an 'eff' sound except from 'f' and 'ph'...
Not true - "tough"
Reminds me of the joke about how you could spell "fish" as "ghoti"... Google it if you can't figure it out.
chromedog wrote:
Vox - even though I KNOW "wox" is closer to the actual.
I suppose it depends on the era of Latin. Classical Latin (which is the one I'm more familiar with) lacked a "v" sound, but it IIRC existed in the medieval period. GW's pseudo-Latin is very much an Anglicised form of later Latin, so I imagine the "v" should be pronounced.
Worms4u wrote:How does one get 'Lef' out of 'Lieu' though? In English there isn't a way to get an 'eff' sound except from 'f' and 'ph'...
Not true - "tough"
Reminds me of the joke about how you could spell "fish" as "ghoti"... Google it if you can't figure it out.
chromedog wrote: Vox - even though I KNOW "wox" is closer to the actual.
I suppose it depends on the era of Latin. Classical Latin (which is the one I'm more familiar with) lacked a "v" sound, but it IIRC existed in the medieval period. GW's pseudo-Latin is very much an Anglicised form of later Latin, so I imagine the "v" should be pronounced.
English is a fail language
I think you mean an awesome language. It's like a widespread version of Welsh. Disgned very specifically to have exceptions to every rule if only to just annoy the hell out of everyone else that doesn't speak it. Actually that's not fair... Welsh tends to obey it's own rules.
It does annoy the hell out of everyone that does not speak it. People who speak English know it mostly because we grew up with it. It is a hard language.
Of course, the main cause of this is that English is a combination of 2 different Language families(Romance and Germanic)
Grammatical chaos is assured when that happens. We basically pronounce things like a Germanic Language, but we spell like a Romance language. and naturally there are exceptions to this generalization.
Grey Templar wrote:Indeed, English breaks many of its own rules.
Of course, the main cause of this is that English is a combination of 2 different Language families(Romance and Germanic)
Grammatical chaos is assured when that happens. We basically pronounce things like a Germanic Language, but we spell like a Romance language. and naturally there are exceptions to this generalization.
Nurgle is probably supposed to be mixtures of words including nurture and gargle.
So, Nur-gul.
As for English being odd, try hiccaugh. There's no P in it.
Spelling has been optional for most of history, but if the only people who could write were in the church, expect latin-based spellings.
:: reads a bit :: Why are you all talking about how to pronounce words in a pro-nun thread?
But seriously, I've been pronouncing so many words so wrong. First, when I started gaming, I'd say Chi(n)-murr-ah. Then I got corrected a little and came to, "Kim-urr-ah." Now I know the right way to pronounce it. ^_^
Also, I've been saying, "Ex-arch" instead of, "Ex-ark." for years.
Pouncey wrote:Yay! A pro-Battle Sisters thread! : D
:: reads a bit :: Why are you all talking about how to pronounce words in a pro-nun thread?
But seriously, I've been pronouncing so many words so wrong. First, when I started gaming, I'd say Chi(n)-murr-ah. Then I got corrected a little and came to, "Kim-urr-ah." Now I know the right way to pronounce it. ^_^
Also, I've been saying, "Ex-arch" instead of, "Ex-ark." for years.
And I've been pronouncing Ecclesiarchy wrong too.
And also Arch-Angel.
And probably loads of other words.
Ecclesiarchy confused me for some time as well. but I know C'tan isn't see-tan it's like C'thulhu
Pouncey wrote:Yay! A pro-Battle Sisters thread! : D
:: reads a bit :: Why are you all talking about how to pronounce words in a pro-nun thread?
But seriously, I've been pronouncing so many words so wrong. First, when I started gaming, I'd say Chi(n)-murr-ah. Then I got corrected a little and came to, "Kim-urr-ah." Now I know the right way to pronounce it. ^_^
Also, I've been saying, "Ex-arch" instead of, "Ex-ark." for years.
And I've been pronouncing Ecclesiarchy wrong too.
And also Arch-Angel.
And probably loads of other words.
Ecclesiarchy confused me for some time as well. but I know C'tan isn't see-tan it's like C'thulhu
Pouncey wrote:Yay! A pro-Battle Sisters thread! : D
:: reads a bit :: Why are you all talking about how to pronounce words in a pro-nun thread?
But seriously, I've been pronouncing so many words so wrong. First, when I started gaming, I'd say Chi(n)-murr-ah. Then I got corrected a little and came to, "Kim-urr-ah." Now I know the right way to pronounce it. ^_^
Also, I've been saying, "Ex-arch" instead of, "Ex-ark." for years.
And I've been pronouncing Ecclesiarchy wrong too.
And also Arch-Angel.
And probably loads of other words.
Ecclesiarchy confused me for some time as well. but I know C'tan isn't see-tan it's like C'thulhu
Pouncey wrote:Yay! A pro-Battle Sisters thread! : D
:: reads a bit :: Why are you all talking about how to pronounce words in a pro-nun thread?
But seriously, I've been pronouncing so many words so wrong. First, when I started gaming, I'd say Chi(n)-murr-ah. Then I got corrected a little and came to, "Kim-urr-ah." Now I know the right way to pronounce it. ^_^
Also, I've been saying, "Ex-arch" instead of, "Ex-ark." for years.
And I've been pronouncing Ecclesiarchy wrong too.
And also Arch-Angel.
And probably loads of other words.
Ecclesiarchy confused me for some time as well. but I know C'tan isn't see-tan it's like C'thulhu
It was a little easier for me since I started playing DoW: Soulstorm, so I got to hear voice actresses saying it. But I keep using a chee(se) sound instead of a key sound for the last syllable.
Cthulhu is pronounced something along the lines of "kloo-LOO" in the recorded words of H.P. Lovecraft... so, basically, everyone pronounces this word wrong. The h's are all silent, as it the t.
Lovecraft went on to say that this word is actually impossible to pronounce correctly using the human mouth, but that is as close as it could get.
Wow, it's crazy how different the pronounciations can be.
In our group...
Aquila = ay-KWI-leh; looks odd, but that's the way we pronounce it.
Catachan = cah-TAH-chen
Chimera = kye-MEE-ra
C'Tan = seh-TAHN; we used to say kah-TAHN, but that was too close to that 'settlers' game...
Deus ex = DAY-us EX
Exarch = EX-ark
Khorne = SKULLS!!!!!
Primarch = PRY-mark; our friend from India says PRIH-merk... we just give a haughty laugh.
Sanguinius = sahn-GWI-nius
Slaanesh = slah-AH-nesh or, SLAH-nesh
Tzeentch = TSEENCH or just SEENCH
Vox = Vahks
Skinnereal wrote:Nurgle is probably supposed to be mixtures of words including nurture and gargle.
So, Nur-gul.
As for English being odd, try hiccaugh. There's no P in it.
Spelling has been optional for most of history, but if the only people who could write were in the church, expect latin-based spellings.
(I'm not saying these are right, but they are how I've always pronounced them.)
Aquila : A-qwil-luh
Catachan : Cat-a-chan
Baal : Barl
Nurgle: Nur-gul
Slaanesh : Sla-nesh (I would say it this way because saying SLAR-nesh sounds a bit too... heavy(?) and it doesn't flow off the tongue very well)
Tzeentch : Zeentch
Primarch : Pry-mark
C'tan : Cuh-tan (Whether it's correct or not I'd pronounce it this way because See-tan sounds awful)
Skarwael wrote:(I'm not saying these are right, but they are how I've always pronounced them.)
Aquila : A-qwil-luh
Catachan : Cat-a-chan
Baal : Barl
Nurgle: Nur-gul
Slaanesh : Sla-nesh (I would say it this way because saying SLAR-nesh sounds a bit too... heavy(?) and it doesn't flow off the tongue very well)
Tzeentch : Zeentch
Primarch : Pry-mark
C'tan : Cuh-tan (Whether it's correct or not I'd pronounce it this way because See-tan sounds awful)
You got everything except Baal right.
Its either Bale, as in a Bale of hay. This is how the name of the ancient middle eastern diety of the same name is pronounced.
The primarchs names have always been the most difficult for me to figure out in text. but apparently its Rob-ootay Gil-a-mun and sang-win-eeas and also apparently its Pronouned Emprah
Baldsmug wrote:The primarchs names have always been the most difficult for me to figure out in text. but apparently its Rob-ootay Gil-a-mun and sang-win-eeas and also apparently its Pronouned Emprah
I've heard Roboute Guilliman pronounced a dozen ways. I pronounce it as though it's a French name (which is probably completely wrong, I know), but:
Ro-boo Gee-i-man
I think it's SUPPOSED to be Ro-boat Gill-i-man. Or you can just go with the ever-popular Rowboat Girlyman, or Rowboat Gilligan.
Baldsmug wrote:The primarchs names have always been the most difficult for me to figure out in text. but apparently its Rob-ootay Gil-a-mun and sang-win-eeas and also apparently its Pronouned Emprah
I've heard Roboute Guilliman pronounced a dozen ways. I pronounce it as though it's a French name (which is probably completely wrong, I know), but:
Ro-boo Gee-i-man
I think it's SUPPOSED to be Ro-boat Gill-i-man. Or you can just go with the ever-popular Rowboat Girlyman, or Rowboat Gilligan.
I used to pronounce Khorne as Khron (corn as cron) as I thought that corn is a stupid name for a god of blood. Now a god of the harvest on the other hand...
Oh, looks like I have been failing all of these years...
What have you been saying?
I say las-cannon...you know, exactly how it's spelled
Its Las(as in Laser) put on cannon. do the same for Laspistols and Lasguns.
Mmm, potato chips/crisps...
That just confused me.
For anyone who didn't get it, there's a brand of potato chips/crisps here in Canada named "Lays" which is pronounced the same way as the las from laser.
I always used a Lahz rather than a Lays for lascannon, lasgun, laspistol. It just seems to roll off the tongue better.
Baldsmug wrote:The primarchs names have always been the most difficult for me to figure out in text. but apparently its Rob-ootay Gil-a-mun and sang-win-eeas and also apparently its Pronouned Emprah
I've heard Roboute Guilliman pronounced a dozen ways. I pronounce it as though it's a French name (which is probably completely wrong, I know), but:
Ro-boo Gee-i-man
I think it's SUPPOSED to be Ro-boat Gill-i-man. Or you can just go with the ever-popular Rowboat Girlyman, or Rowboat Gilligan.
Wow sorry guys. I was just trollin with the whole Laz/Las thing. I assumed the good citizens of Dakka had long ago settled the despute.
It's funny the Lays chips thing was brought up. I drew a short comic ages ago in which the first panel was two tech-somethingorothers leaning against a tank. The first line is from one of the two "You can't call it lays... It'd sount like a chip".
BTW Lays is an American brand. Infact its at the top of the food empire. Frito-Lay owns all the Corn(Fritos corn chips) and all the potatoes (Lays potatoe chips) in America. They also own Nabisco, Nestlie and so forth. They also own Tropicana, who in turn owns pepsi and coke, who in turn own McDs, BK, KFC so on and so forth. If you anything from a can, box, bag or bottle in america you're enjoying frito-lay.
DeffDred wrote:Wow sorry guys. I was just trollin with the whole Laz/Las thing. I assumed the good citizens of Dakka had long ago settled the despute.
It's funny the Lays chips thing was brought up. I drew a short comic ages ago in which the first panel was two tech-somethingorothers leaning against a tank. The first line is from one of the two "You can't call it lays... It'd sount like a chip".
BTW Lays is an American brand. Infact its at the top of the food empire. Frito-Lay owns all the Corn(Fritos corn chips) and all the potatoes (Lays potatoe chips) in America. They also own Nabisco, Nestlie and so forth. They also own Tropicana, who in turn owns pepsi and coke, who in turn own McDs, BK, KFC so on and so forth. If you anything from a can, box, bag or bottle in america you're enjoying frito-lay.
Yeah...not to derail this thread too much, but you may want to check some of your facts about Frito-Lay.
I think I may be pronouncing Laser differently then some people.
I don't pronounce it LAY-zer. I say la-zer. kinda soft.
Either way, I don't belive Frito-lay owns Coke AND Pepsi. they are competing brands, if they were mutually owned by a controller they would most certaintly merge.
Now its possable that someone, somewhere, owns stock in all of those companies. so in a sense they are owned together, but not in a majority.
DeffDred wrote:Wow sorry guys. I was just trollin with the whole Laz/Las thing. I assumed the good citizens of Dakka had long ago settled the despute.
It's funny the Lays chips thing was brought up. I drew a short comic ages ago in which the first panel was two tech-somethingorothers leaning against a tank. The first line is from one of the two "You can't call it lays... It'd sount like a chip".
BTW Lays is an American brand. Infact its at the top of the food empire. Frito-Lay owns all the Corn(Fritos corn chips) and all the potatoes (Lays potatoe chips) in America. They also own Nabisco, Nestlie and so forth. They also own Tropicana, who in turn owns pepsi and coke, who in turn own McDs, BK, KFC so on and so forth. If you anything from a can, box, bag or bottle in america you're enjoying frito-lay.
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Coca Cola might own tropicana, but there's no way Tropicana owns Coca Cola. Or pepsi. Nestle is it's own company AFAIK.
The best I ever heard was someone referring to the Fortress of Redemption the 'Fortress of Recommendation'. It's times like that when the nonsense some people put out on YMDC makes perfect sense. Reading for the win!
I always pronounce C'tan with a soft 'c', although I have heard it both ways. Here's one I wonder: Huron's first name. How the hell do you pronounce 'Lufgt?'
Thinking about how other names from similar origins are pronounced, I'd have to go with "Abb-add-on".
I prefer "Ah-bad-un", but it doesn't sound correct.
Well Abaddon from the Bible is pronounced UH-BAD-N and that's how I have always pronounced it which means Destroyer, Angel of the bottomless pit. It's Satin basically.
For Tzeench I always say zench. I never use the zEEnch.
Everything is pretty much exactly as is if you use a 1st grade level of sounding it out lol.
C'tan K-TAN and/or KA-TAN
Slaanesh SLUH-NESH or you could achieve the same result with SLAA-NESH
Chimera KAI-MERA . kai rhymes with guy/my
I never had a problem with this stuff ;\
though i have heard some crazy things. Saying "Teench" as TUH-ZAH-ENCH freaking terrible I was laughing in my head while displaying a smile.
GamzaTheChaos wrote:Well Abaddon from the Bible is pronounced UH-BAD-N and that's how I have always pronounced it which means Destroyer, Angel of the bottomless pit. It's Satin basically.
GamzaTheChaos wrote:Well Abaddon from the Bible is pronounced UH-BAD-N and that's how I have always pronounced it which means Destroyer, Angel of the bottomless pit. It's Satin basically.
Ohhh, so close. Satin?
Wrong, but it isn't your fault.
The Biblical Abbaddon is simply the Angel of Destruction. He is NOT a fallen angel as far as the Bible teaches us. Just like the Angel of Death who smote down the first born of egypt, he was most certaintly not a fallen angel.
We have no evidence that Abbaddon is aligned with Satan(originally named Lucifer, which means Light Bearer)
GamzaTheChaos wrote:Well Abaddon from the Bible is pronounced UH-BAD-N and that's how I have always pronounced it which means Destroyer, Angel of the bottomless pit. It's Satin basically.
Ohhh, so close. Satin?
Wrong, but it isn't your fault.
The Biblical Abbaddon is simply the Angel of Destruction. He is NOT a fallen angel as far as the Bible teaches us. Just like the Angel of Death who smote down the first born of egypt, he was most certaintly not a fallen angel.
We have no evidence that Abbaddon is aligned with Satan(originally named Lucifer, which means Light Bearer)
haha my bad on Satan's name It was like 7AM when i wrote all that and I didn't sleep that night.
not to turn this into a biblical debate which I won't but Abaddon also known as Apollyon was the name given to Satan so it's indeed him. Satan has more then 1 name. the destroyer, dragon etc those are all names for him from a biblical stand.
Reference is Strong's exhaustive concordance of the Bible. 3 of the Greek dictionary for Abaddon. 623 of the Greek dictionary for Apollyon.
Exodus chapter 12 verse 23. "The LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you."
