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2010/10/28 05:51:54
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Battlefield Professional
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Just a curiosity.
Phil Kelly says what almost sounds like "lass-cannon"
Goto 11:35
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLz6bTitUQE&feature=player_embedded#!
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2010/10/28 06:08:58
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Norn Queen
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Yeah, that's how I've always pronounced it as well. I actually have more of a 'zz' sound, but always a short 'a'. So Lazz-cannon.
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2010/10/28 06:12:52
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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Short 'a'.
Regardless of the verb from 'laser' being "to lase", the actual word llascannon/lasgun/etc) lacks the 'e' which would force the sound to be a long 'a', so it is short by default.
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2010/10/28 06:15:40
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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-Loki- wrote:Yeah, that's how I've always pronounced it as well. I actually have more of a 'zz' sound, but always a short 'a'. So Lazz-cannon.
^ this.
Yes, I know it's "las" as in "laser" which is pronounced "lays" not "lass" or "lahs".
I just can't get over how much of a tool people sound like when they pronounce it that way, though. Then, I'm also a person who pronounces it "CHimera" rather than "KHimara". Even though the original greek pronounced it the latter way, I would have to start doing things like pronouncing "chariot" or "chastity" wrong (although I still pronounce words like "archon" and "autarch" properly. It's just when they begin with the ch that it bugs me, but I digress...)
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2010/10/28 06:46:51
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Sister Vastly Superior
Gig Harbor, WA
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Well, a "cha"-mera guard player at my local GW store always said that since IG regiments come from a million or so planets, he said that the planet that his came from pronounced it that way. I figured I'd just drop the subject after that...
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2010/10/28 09:38:53
Subject: Re:Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Battlewagon Driver with Charged Engine
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It's pronounced "Lays-cannon" and they go "FREEM" when fired.
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2010/10/28 09:52:58
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Battlefortress Driver with Krusha Wheel
...urrrr... I dunno
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I'm British and "Lass-cannon" is how we pronounce it.
Sometimes "Laz-cannon" too, now that I think about it, but yeah.
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2010/10/28 10:35:59
Subject: Re:Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Esteemed Veteran Space Marine
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FRRREEEEMMMMMM FTW!
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2010/10/28 10:40:01
Subject: Re:Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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Luke_Prowler wrote:It's pronounced "Lays-cannon"
feth no.
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2010/10/28 10:59:57
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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Luke_Prowler wrote:It's pronounced "Lays-cannon" and they go "FREEM" when fired.
Only if it's a fritos cannon.
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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2010/10/28 11:00:19
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:I'm British and "Lass-cannon" is how we pronounce it.
Sometimes "Laz-cannon" too, now that I think about it, but yeah.
I was gonna say, I'm British and say Lazcannon, Lazgun, Lazpistol, Muliti- LAZOR!!!!! 
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2010/10/28 11:16:27
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Ravager
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Laz cannon. Weird lol i know how it is spelled and the way its supposed to be said but this is how i say it. No matter how many times i say it to myself lol
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2010/10/28 11:19:06
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Esteemed Veteran Space Marine
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multi lasser sounds very silly but then i am one of the guys who say tieranids and CHImera
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multi lasser sounds very silly but then i am one of the guys who say tieranids and CHImera
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2010/10/28 11:54:12
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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ChocolateGork wrote:multi lasser sounds very silly but then i am one of the guys who say tieranids and CHImera
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multi lasser sounds very silly but then i am one of the guys who say tieranids and CHImera
I thought it -was- pronounced as tieranids? Only way I've ever heard it said. Ty-ranids [As in tyrant] sounds odd to me...
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2010/10/28 13:27:37
Subject: Re:Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Esteemed Veteran Space Marine
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most people i have met say tyr-anids instead or tie-ranids
on another note i have a friend who always calls laguns lasrifles and it annoys me for some wierd reason
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2010/10/28 17:09:47
Subject: Re:Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot
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Luke_Prowler wrote:It's pronounced "Lays-cannon" and they go "FREEM" when fired.
Awesome reference is awesome!
Anyways, I pronounce it "laz-cannon"
S_P
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2010/10/30 02:53:15
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Wicked Ghast
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in my area, its pronounced "lass( as in like "lassie")-cannon"
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2010/10/30 02:56:00
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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Never heard it pronounced lays-cannon, it sounds stupid anyway.
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2010/10/30 03:41:14
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Fresh-Faced New User
Bay City, MI
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LAZ-cannon and LAZ-gun
Kih-MARE-uh
TIER-uh-nids
Did that guard player hail from Badgrammaria VI? I hear the Badgrammarian 36th company "The Soldeirs of Frotune" have made quite a name for themselves.
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Melissia wrote:In a galaxy where there is only war, Orks can only win.
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2010/10/30 04:36:44
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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chromedog wrote:Only if it's a fritos cannon.
...and the winner of the thread goes to you, sir.
Illeix wrote:Well, a "cha"-mera guard player at my local GW store always said that since IG regiments come from a million or so planets, he said that the planet that his came from pronounced it that way. I figured I'd just drop the subject after that...
Don't roll your eyes. I mean, do you call this thing a "ker-ee- ot"?
Like the vegetable?
I've never heard anyone call them "tai-ranid" before, but I have heard a few awkward "tae-ranid" before.
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2010/10/30 09:36:15
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Las to rhyme with the word 'as' so short 'a'.
Tyranid would be pronounced tih ranid or tie ranid I should think as you do for tyrannosaurus rex. It's not pronounced tirra no saurus afterall.
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2010/10/30 17:10:25
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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it is in the US.
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2010/10/30 17:23:27
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Purposeful Hammerhead Pilot
Scotland
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lays-cannon lol sounds like it fires crisps.
Around here we pronounce it Laz-cannon
Also I here many many people call them Tai-ranids like Tai food.
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2010/10/30 17:33:11
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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Ailaros wrote:it is in the US.
No it isn't.
Maybe in your weird local dialect it is, but all across the US? Hell no.
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2010/10/30 22:46:06
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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I'm from the midwest, and I've never heard it pronounced other than "tir-ano-saurus". I guess if east coast british wannabes or souther drawl does it different - I haven't talked enough about dinosaurs with people from all across the nation.
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2010/10/31 18:45:52
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Ailaros wrote:I'm from the midwest, and I've never heard it pronounced other than "tir-ano-saurus". I guess if east coast british wannabes or souther drawl does it different - I haven't talked enough about dinosaurs with people from all across the nation.
Must be a local dialect because American dictionaries like Webster show the pronunciation as ti ran no saur. Looked it up online.
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2010/10/31 19:55:34
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Mad Gyrocopter Pilot
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-Loki- wrote:Yeah, that's how I've always pronounced it as well. I actually have more of a 'zz' sound, but always a short 'a'. So Lazz-cannon.
Pretty much same for me.
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2010/10/31 20:06:23
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Melissia wrote:Ailaros wrote:it is in the US.
No it isn't.
Maybe in your weird local dialect it is, but all across the US? Hell no.
You don't suppose that from someone else's perspective that you're the one with the weird dialect?
I've heard it pronounced both ways, tbh.
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2010/10/31 21:42:59
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Monstrous Master Moulder
Sacramento, CA
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The Tyranid name is derived from the planet Tyran. That's less helpful than I initially thought it would be.
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2010/11/01 00:58:58
Subject: Lascannon (long or short "a")
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Norn Queen
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Raxmei wrote:The Tyranid name is derived from the planet Tyran. That's less helpful than I initially thought it would be.
Right there you run into pronunciation problems. Like Canada - Canadian.
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