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Just what it says on the tin .

Neither. It's seh-Taan. Emphasis on the second syllable.

C'Tan (seh-Taan) - n. - 1. GW way of saying "overpriced" and "not a necron."

warpcrafter wrote:Neither. It's seh-Taan. Emphasis on the second syllable.

never saw that one coming!

Keh-Tan.

Suh-Taan.

I love these threads and how they mirror public education in general.

How do you pronounce B'Tan? Bee-tan? A Z'tan is a Zee-tan?

I never knew the letter C had a phonetic ability to sound like the name of the very same letter. Amazing.

I am going to go to the store and buy some seeheese ceeustard after I take my seeat for a walk in the fields where seeows seehew their seeud.

on topic: Its pronounced with a sharp K sound (K-uh) a short break (denoted by the apostrophe) and then its time to say tan.

Keh' Tahn

Either suh-tan or kuh-tan

warpcrafter wrote:Neither. It's seh-Taan. Emphasis on the second syllable.

This.

Hellfury wrote:I love these threads and how they mirror public education in general.

How do you pronounce B'Tan? Bee-tan? A Z'tan is a Zee-tan?

I never knew the letter C had a phonetic ability to sound like the name of the very same letter. Amazing.

I am going to go to the store and buy some seeheese ceeustard after I take my seeat for a walk in the fields where seeows seehew their seeud.

on topic: Its pronounced with a sharp K sound (K-uh) a short break (denoted by the apostrophe) and then its time to say tan.

Damn, no need to be a seeunt about it.

Coming up next: Chimera, Tyranids and Leman.

ceh-meera, Tie-raan-id, Leeeeeeeee man!

just say satan.... then everone will know who the hell your on about!

BrookM wrote:Coming up next: Chimera, Tyranids and Leman.

kai-mera , tea rah nids , lee man

hmm thats how i pronounce them.

LunaHound wrote:kai-mera , tea rah nids , lee man

hmm thats how i pronounce them.

i.e., correctly

with the exception of "tea" in tyranids--should be tear-ah-nids (emphasis on first)

otherwise, you sound like a Kiwi

BrookM wrote:Coming up next: Chimera, Tyranids and Leman.

1. ki-meer-uh

2. Teer-uh-nids

3. lee-muhn

I <3 English.

And, seriously, guys, it's kuh *pause* tan, it's not rocket science...or should I say skee-ence?

Burna Stompa wrote:And, seriously, guys, it's kuh *pause* tan, it's not rocket science...or should I say skee-ence?

O noes!!! You've disproved your own point!

Naw, it's definitely Teer-ah-nids, or perhaps Tire-ah-nids on account of being from Tyran.

Also, it's laz not lays.

C'Tan is pronounced Kay-oss-gaud-rip-auff.

The "T" in Tzeentch isn't necessarily silent, but it's usually not worth trying to pronounce.

Manchu wrote:

Hellfury wrote:I love these threads and how they mirror public education in general.

How do you pronounce B'Tan? Bee-tan? A Z'tan is a Zee-tan?

I never knew the letter C had a phonetic ability to sound like the name of the very same letter. Amazing.

I am going to go to the store and buy some seeheese ceeustard after I take my seeat for a walk in the fields where seeows seehew their seeud.

on topic: Its pronounced with a sharp K sound (K-uh) a short break (denoted by the apostrophe) and then its time to say tan.

Damn, no need to be a seeunt about it.

I lol'd, hard!

I pronounce it wrong on purpose. I pronounce a lot of things wrong on purpose. Like swaamp, baig, maing, skreet. It makes talking loads more fun!

Typeline wrote:

Manchu wrote:

Hellfury wrote:I love these threads and how they mirror public education in general.

How do you pronounce B'Tan? Bee-tan? A Z'tan is a Zee-tan?

I never knew the letter C had a phonetic ability to sound like the name of the very same letter. Amazing.

I am going to go to the store and buy some seeheese ceeustard after I take my seeat for a walk in the fields where seeows seehew their seeud.

on topic: Its pronounced with a sharp K sound (K-uh) a short break (denoted by the apostrophe) and then its time to say tan.

Damn, no need to be a seeunt about it.

I lol'd, hard!

I pronounce it wrong on purpose. I pronounce a lot of things wrong on purpose. Like swaamp, baig, maing, skreet. It makes talking loads more fun!

being scottish this comes natural to mee!

Orkeosaurus wrote:Naw, it's definitely Teer-ah-nids, or perhaps Tire-ah-nids on account of being from Tyran.

Yes, that's right--"teer-ah-nids." (I was thinking "tear" as in what DA shed for being so lame, rather than "tear" as in "tearing the Lion a new one")

Also, mispronouncing (or rather misspelling) things on purpose . . . that is the very foundation of interwebz culture!

Oh. Yeah, tear is an annoying (pair of) word(s).

Who gives a rat's a$$?

maby a rat?

Who cares about any of the stuff posted on Dakka?

Oh, that's right--people who post on Dakka.

I take it you already know
of tough, and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
on hiccough, through, slough and though.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it's said like bed, not bead!
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat,
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt)
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose –
Just look them up – and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword.

And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language: Why, man alive,
I'd learned to talk when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.


In other words- don't try and teach us your opinion because it could be ANYTHING

I pronounce it with a "kuh".

BrookM wrote:Coming up next: Chimera, Tyranids and Leman.

I say "shimera", pronounce tyranid like you would tyranny, and "leeman".

kai-mera

That works too.

Also, it's laz not lays.

bs, it's lays! The Planetstrike strategem seals the deal for me, it rhymes with "maze".

Manchu wrote:

Hellfury wrote:I love these threads and how they mirror public education in general.

How do you pronounce B'Tan? Bee-tan? A Z'tan is a Zee-tan?

I never knew the letter C had a phonetic ability to sound like the name of the very same letter. Amazing.

I am going to go to the store and buy some seeheese ceeustard after I take my seeat for a walk in the fields where seeows seehew their seeud.

on topic: Its pronounced with a sharp K sound (K-uh) a short break (denoted by the apostrophe) and then its time to say tan.

Damn, no need to be a seeunt about it.

Perhaps, but its better to be an eduseeated seeunt rather than an uneduseeated Seelownshoes.

Phonics, people. Elementary language skills.

C'tan: pronounced "C'tan"

Chimera: pronounced "chimera"

Tyranid: pronounced "tyranid"

Leman: pronounced "leman"


That's how ya do it.