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It's not as though people are constantly attacking their choice of armies (or, well, it usually isn't at least), so why do they have to be such dicks about it? Yes, I like Space Marines. If you don't, more power to you, but get off that high horse, you're playing 40k too.
Uh... you've seen the "OMG, Sisters of Battles are girlz!! Wai GW Let gurls be soljers!!11one!!eleven!11!" threads, right?
Do they actually exist?
Never seen one.
Seconded. I would need to see a thread like that, as I have never seen one, much less the amount to take into plural.
I've never seen anyone challenge the Sister's right to a place in the 40k universe. The closest would be people telling sisters players to stop whining about our lack of plastics or saying that they would be indefferent to them being squatted.
On topic, a mistake I see all over the place that makes me vomit that I also see in 40k is "turrent." I cannot fathom why this is a thing.
SRSFACE wrote: While we're on that, I am totally that guy who makes sure people knows the proper plural of "codex" is "codices" and not "codexes."
Except that's not actually true. In English, either is correct.
That's technically true because language is always "correct" if the person you're talking to understands what you meant but out of the 15 or so dictionaries I just checked, only a single one had "codexes" listed as a way to pronounce the plural.
Granted it was the Oxford English dictionary and they are kind of the authorities, but still!
@EVIL INC: Don't be that guy. The United States of America is the only country that actually has "America" in the name, so logically people assume correctly when someone is using the term, it's in reference to the United States. The people there are known as "Americans" on every corner of the globe. It has nothing to do with arrogance or ignorance. It's just what it is. You can call people from any country in the South American continent by the signifier for the citizen of whatever country they happen to be from (ie: Brazilian, Mexican, Peruvian, etc.). I legitimately don't understand the statement you're trying to make. Pretty sure people figured out the implied connotation I was referring to the United States education system, man.
Horst wrote:This is how trolling happens. A few cheeky posts are made. Then they get more insulting. Eventually, we revert to our primal animal state, hurling feces at each other while shreeking with glee.
conker249 wrote: I pronounce tyranids: as Teer-a-nids, like tyranny
I have never heard anyone pronounce tyranny like that, not even Americans. The only way I've heard tyranny pronounced is ti-ra-nee.
As far as Papa Smurf goes, I call him Rowboat Girlyman.
Ailaros wrote: You know what really bugs me? When my opponent, before they show up at the FLGS smears themselves in peanut butter and then makes blood sacrifices to Ashterai by slitting the throat of three male chickens and then smears the spatter pattern into the peanut butter to engrave sacred symbols into their chest and upper arms.
I have a peanut allergy. It's really inconsiderate.
"Long ago in a distant land, I, M'kar, the shape-shifting Master of Chaos, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Grey Knight warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in space and flung him into the Warp, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to real-space, and undo the evil that is Chaos!"
Never heard tie-ranny either. I also pronounce the "ty" in both Tyranid and Tyranny as in Tyrion.
Ailaros wrote: You know what really bugs me? When my opponent, before they show up at the FLGS smears themselves in peanut butter and then makes blood sacrifices to Ashterai by slitting the throat of three male chickens and then smears the spatter pattern into the peanut butter to engrave sacred symbols into their chest and upper arms.
I have a peanut allergy. It's really inconsiderate.
"Long ago in a distant land, I, M'kar, the shape-shifting Master of Chaos, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Grey Knight warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in space and flung him into the Warp, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to real-space, and undo the evil that is Chaos!"
About the Guilliman thing: I tend to pronounce names like that as they're presented in officially licenced media. The thing with "names" is they're pronounced however we're told to pronounce it.
I believe the fresh recruit Ultramarine in the Space Marine video game pronounced it "GWILL-le-min" rather than take the French or Spanish style double L and turn it into a "ya" sound.
I know I still struggle with Abaddon. I know how the English pronounce it and I am pretty sure that's the "proper" way but my American sensibilities still flip it to emphasize the first syllable rather than the second, and with more of an "o" sound. Here's an example of the Dota 2 character of the same name pronouncing it and I'm pretty sure that's the intention by the game creators seeing as I know that's the more typical way it's prounounced in the UK. We from the States tend to say it more like it's a dinosaur name.
Also, the biggest one people make is Synapse. There are two correct pronounciations: Sin-apse and Sie-napse.
I have a problem I guess calling it (Si-napse), but that is the way the word was taught to me by my Abnormal Psychology Professor in the three years of Psychology that I took in college.
Other than that, I have been bad with calling the Chimera (Chim-era) because I was a kid when I first got one. Old habbits don't die easy. I am also really bad at at typing Lemon Russ instead of Leman.
Most mispronunciations in the game don't bother me much. Everyone has a different way of pronouncing words and when I was a kid I had a speech disorder and because of that I understand.
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts."
I'm guilty of constantly mispronouncing chimera as kai-meh-ra and the "gant" in termagant so it rhymes with "ant".
Ailaros wrote: You know what really bugs me? When my opponent, before they show up at the FLGS smears themselves in peanut butter and then makes blood sacrifices to Ashterai by slitting the throat of three male chickens and then smears the spatter pattern into the peanut butter to engrave sacred symbols into their chest and upper arms.
I have a peanut allergy. It's really inconsiderate.
"Long ago in a distant land, I, M'kar, the shape-shifting Master of Chaos, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Grey Knight warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in space and flung him into the Warp, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to real-space, and undo the evil that is Chaos!"
