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2008/03/27 04:21:46
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Foul Dwimmerlaik
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Dahka Dahka.
Option #2
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2008/03/27 05:13:50
Subject: Re:How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Never-Miss Nightwing Pilot
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Dock-a Dock-a
Lazz cannon (short a)
Corn
Nurgle (like Fur)
Slann esh
Zeentch (first T silent, then Zeen and 'tch' like catch)
Drow (like eyeBROW)
A-LAY-toc Eldar (ai sounding like 'air')...
Ghidorah
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2008/03/27 05:40:37
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I pronounce it "Dakka(Kid making a machine-gun sound)
Here is AUS, we say "A pair of Dack's"-when decribing our pants
EG-"He's not wearing any Dacks"
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"Dakkanaut" not "Dakkaite"
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2008/03/27 13:51:34
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Omnipotent Lord of Change
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H.B.M.C. wrote:
K'Tan
Kata-chan (as opposed to Kata'kan as some people I know pronounce it)
With HBMC on both of those. Here's a couple more contentious ones:
Skaven (as the soft a in scavenger)
Tira-nids (as in tyrant not tyranny)
When I was a young'un cavorting about the FLGS I used to call them 'jena-stellers' before realizing it was 'gene' + 'stealers' 
- Salvage
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2008/03/27 13:57:52
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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[DCM]
Gun Mage
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Iorek wrote:I pronounce all that junk according to standard American English phonetic rules, so:
docka docka
LAZ-kannon
tseench
slah-NESH
Of course, I can't find any examples offhand that relate to "dakka dakka", so this may just be my phonetic rules kicking in.
Yeah, I'm not really sure you can go to phonics for the "Docka" sound. Any a word that sounds like O almost always has either a silent e or two vowels togeather. I say Dakka is closer to hack, back, lack, mack, sack, pack, rack, bat, cat, mat, sat, or hat.
I mean, if I was writing in 'orkish' and I said "Hurry up ya git and throw more ammo in me gear bakk pakk."
How would you read that out loud? Did he just call his back pack a bock pock? 
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2008/03/27 14:19:35
Subject: Re:How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman
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I always pronounced it like #1, but that's how I heard you pronounce it Russ so I guess maybe I'm too trusting. 
-Corey
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2008/03/27 15:02:22
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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[ADMIN]
Decrepit Dakkanaut
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yakface wrote:stonefox wrote:What phonics rule says to pronounce an A like an O?
Plus, if the guys who've owned the site both agree, then it must be right!  (. . . runs off to check how Legoburner pronounces it. . .)
I pronounce it using a complicated duck-like quacking, and since I speak the queen's english I must be right. On the other hand when I am talking to 'norms' it is just like yakface says, dah-kah dah-kah the sound of a machine gun.
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2008/03/27 15:13:53
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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[DCM]
Tilter at Windmills
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Option 1, of course, since I learned it secondhand from Russ. I think it might be a New Hampshire thing too. LAZcannon with the same "a" sound like "back" too.
In the old-school days when I first got into the hobby army lists among the old Dakka gaming club were occasionally analyzed in terms of how much "Back, Hack, and Dakk" they had. Ie: mobility/ability to get into the backfield, close combat/ability to hack the enemy apart, and shooting/Dakka.
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2008/03/27 15:31:50
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Hurr! Ogryn Bone 'Ead!
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option 1
>> it's las-cannon from me, no 'z' as in laser
In french, a single S is pronounce Z, so around here (Québec) it's laz-cannon.
But I suppose that speaking a different language, I would say thing differently
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2008/03/27 15:41:41
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Plastictrees
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Symbio Joe wrote:
As or for dakka I go with duh-ku (like cut). Or duggu cause in the part of germany I live people speak k like g, p like b, and t like d.
Dont do it . . . noooooooooooooooooooo!
I go with the german duck-a
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2008/03/27 16:08:41
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Battleship Captain
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Boss_Salvage wrote:H.B.M.C. wrote:
Kata-chan (as opposed to Kata'kan as some people I know pronounce it)
Skaven (as the soft a in scavenger)
Tira-nids (as in tyrant not tyranny)
I'm of the Kata'kan camp myself. And while I can certainly see the logic in pronouncing Skaven that way, I always saw it as Skave-n (rhymes with craven). And I'm not sure why, but I've always pronounced Tyranids as Teer-a-nids.
And even though I know that Saim Hann is actually pronounced sa-win in Celtic, I can't help but pronounce it Same Hawn (primarily because I've learned that in conversations with most other 40k players that if I pronounce it the Celtic way that don't know what I'm talking about). How do folks pronounce Alaitoc? Al-aye-toc? Awl-ah-ee-tawc?
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2008/03/27 16:15:57
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Omnipotent Lord of Change
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Saim Hann -> Sam Hane (like lane)
Alaitoc -> Al-a-tock
- Salvage
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2008/03/27 16:28:24
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Phanobi
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I'm in the Skaven = craven camp as well as the Teer-a-nids camp.
As for the Eldar names, who cares?
Ozymandias, King of Kings
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.
Look on My works, Ye Mighty, and despair.
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2008/03/27 16:47:44
Subject: Re:How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Legendary Dogfighter
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I'm a dah kah type. And since it's from UK........
I'm not intending to be steriotypical as I only know a few american type people, but the the dor kas etc, seem to come from acent rather than correct pronunciation.
Saim Hann - Sam Hane to me
chim-er-a - not ki-mir-a! please noooooooooo
Laz-cannon (lays-cannon implies it's spelt layes cannon in my understanding of the english languae with that magic e chap)
zeetch (I know I'm wrong on that)
often here the young uns saying chaos as chows (i used to as well back in the day)
kata-chan
also heard somone say see-tan before, think they got hurt, no one was happy about it!
drow - drow? certainly not drew?
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2008/03/27 17:03:14
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Nasty Nob on Warbike with Klaw
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RussWakelin wrote:While docka docka kinda sounds to me like someone is performing Irish step dance.
It also sounds like "Wokka Wokka," which is what Fozzie Bear used to say all the time.
...and wargaming is NO place for Muppets.
Eric
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Greebynog wrote:Us brits have a sense of fair play and propriety that you colonial savages can only dream of.
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2008/03/27 17:06:49
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Rampaging Carnifex
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I think it is time someone uploads a mp3 file so we get enlightend.
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2008/03/27 17:08:04
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Nasty Nob on Warbike with Klaw
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Boss_Salvage wrote:H.B.M.C. wrote:
K'Tan
Kata-chan (as opposed to Kata'kan as some people I know pronounce it)
With HBMC on both of those. Here's a couple more contentious ones:
Skaven (as the soft a in scavenger)
Tira-nids (as in tyrant not tyranny)
When I was a young'un cavorting about the FLGS I used to call them 'jena-stellers' before realizing it was 'gene' + 'stealers'
- Salvage
K'tan and Kat-a-chan, as well.
As for Skaven & Tyranids... You suck, Boss... LOL
I pronounce 'em
"rats"
and
"bugz"
LOL
Skay-vin
Teer-uh-nidz
Eric
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Black Fiend wrote: Okay all the ChapterHouse Nazis to the right!! All the GW apologists to the far left. LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE !!!
The Green Git wrote: I'd like to cross section them and see if they have TFG rings, but that's probably illegal.
Polonius wrote: You have to love when the most clearly biased person in the room is claiming to be objective.
Greebynog wrote:Us brits have a sense of fair play and propriety that you colonial savages can only dream of.
Stelek wrote: I know you're afraid. I want you to be. Because you should be. I've got the humiliation wagon all set up for you to take a ride back to suck city.
Quote: LunaHound--- Why do people hate unpainted models? I mean is it lacking the realism to what we fantasize the plastic soldier men to be?
I just can't stand it when people have fun the wrong way. - Chongara
I do believe that the GW "moneysheep" is a dying breed, despite their bleats to the contrary. - AesSedai
You are a thief and a predator of the wargaming community, and i'll be damned if anyone says differently ever again on my watch in these forums. -MajorTom11 |
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2008/03/27 17:25:08
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Omnipotent Lord of Change
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Skay-vin
Teer-uh-nidz
Yeah, that's the standard. No idea where you people got Skayvin from, but the Teeruhnidz is just picking the other tyrannical noun 
I pronounce 'em
"rats"
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"bugz"
Yeah, they're 'ratmen' and 'nids' about 98% of the time  - Salvage
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2008/03/27 17:39:33
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Huge Bone Giant
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I voted 2 for the reason people said 1 It seems more like the pheonetics of machine gun noise. . . I guess I was just thinking of a bigger gun.
rarrr
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2008/03/27 18:32:11
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Long Beach, CA
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Option 1.
Lazcannon.
Nergle
Corn
Zeench
Slah-neesh
K'Tahn
Kata-chan
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"Do NOT ask me if you can fire the squad you forgot to shoot once we are in the assault phase, EVER!!!"
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2008/03/27 18:56:27
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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[ADMIN]
Decrepit Dakkanaut
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The 'docka' pronunciation just makes me think of the German guys from the Big Lebowski for some reason.
"Where's the money, Lebowski? Docka Docka, Lebowski."
And the people have spoken! The poll shows a pretty clear majority so those of you out there using 'docka' are just plain wrong, despite the fact that it's a made up word.
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2008/03/27 19:24:54
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Phanobi
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Dictionary.com says that its Ki-meer-uh, with the accent on the meer. Not with a " ch" like Church.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chimera
Ozymandias, King of Kings
EDIT: I wasn't able to find Dakka, but I did find dacca:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=dacca
Dak-uh
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This conversation has even begun to boggle my internet-hardened mind.
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2008/03/27 19:29:50
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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[DCM]
The Main Man
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Dakka as in smack down.
Lazcannon
Nergel
Zeentch
Slan-esh. Slan as in plan.
Korn
Skaven as in craven.
Teer-uh-nid.
Kata-chan
C'Tan = K'Tan. S'Tan or See'Tan just sounds ridiculous.
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2008/03/27 19:57:22
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Clousseau
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dah-kah dah-kah, as G_P indicated.
I used to pronounce the weapon as a lahscannon, but now I pronounce it as a lazecannon (as in, 'laser cannon').
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2008/03/27 21:28:57
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Don't you mean lazecannon as in 'lazer cannon'?
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2008/03/27 21:47:59
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Banelord Titan Princeps of Khorne
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Nurglitch wrote:Don't you mean lazecannon as in 'lazer cannon'?
No, "LASER" cannon.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
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2008/03/28 14:37:55
Subject: Re:How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Crazed Witch Elf
Albuquerque, NM
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I went with option 2, you 78% are the freaks!
And I pronounce it lascannon, like glasscannon with a silent g... or something like that.
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2008/03/28 14:39:28
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Fireknife Shas'el
A bizarre array of focusing mirrors and lenses turning my phrases into even more accurate clones of
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If you take off another letter it forms the name of another nifty weapon.
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2008/03/28 14:43:47
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Madrak Ironhide
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stonefox wrote:If you take off another letter it forms the name of another nifty weapon.
lasscans? I hesitate to wonder what those are...
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2008/03/28 14:47:43
Subject: How do you pronounce Dakka?
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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I say Chim-er-a rather than Kai-mer-a... always have.
Skaven/Craven for me, and Teer-a-nids. Used to say Tie-ran-ids, but not any more.
Sime-Hahn (Sime as in the word "I'm" with an S at the front, Hahn as in the beer)
Al-eye-toc
Eye-an-din
Uhlth-way
Beel-Tan (Beel as in Jessica Biel)
BYE
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