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Kilkrazy wrote:Lazcannon

QFT

f74 wrote:People need to spend more time in skool

Sorry. That's pronounced "sssh-ule". I had an 11 year old linguist correct me on this.



Ghidorah

Kilkrazy wrote:The word chaos derives from ancient Greek and was spelt with the Greek equivalent of K, being a hard syllable.

Most other Greek derived words are spelt with K, such as kinetic. I don't know why Chaos wasn't.

Most likely because it came into to English indirectly via Latin. Latin makes extremely infrequent use of the letter 'K', so it was transcribed as a 'C'. (It's the same Ch as in 'Chemistry' if that helps).

PistolWraithCaine wrote:

Beriothien wrote:
A more important question is...why do people insist on saying tier-inid? They don't call the big queen a hive tier-ant

I believe the answer to that question is the same reason why we don't call wyches wai-ches. Saying tair-inid sounds awkward to most people.

On a side note. How do most of you guys pronounce lascannon or lasgun? Do you use a long a (lace-cannon) or short a (las-cannon). I think the second is correct and that's what I say because there is no vowel to make the a long but I hear people say lace-cannon all the time.

Lascannon/Lasgun is a short form for LASER Cannon / LASER Gun, so I'd have to go with the long 'A' being more correct - I always use the second. I supposed it would be most correct to break it out and say "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation cannon".

turret and turrent...

It's turret dude. Not turrent. Trust me.

oh no no no... dont get me wrong, i know it is turret, i just cant get over the number of people that say turrent.
i even found a game called turrent attack or something like that...wtf??? lol

The Power Cosmic wrote:Knee-arch? You lost me there.

You know, they lead your vampire count armies. You may know them as Necarchs.

Beriothien wrote:A more important question is...why do people insist on saying tier-inid? They don't call the big queen a hive tier-ant

Oh I've heard it.

you dont pronounce tyr as tear?
tear-a-nids sounds better the tie-ra-nids to me...

But do you mean tear as in or tear as in to to tear a piece of paper?

Oh, let's call the whole thing off!

What do the RAW say?

My fav is a message board special. mute instead of moot.

Druid mispronounced as droid

These are not the druids you're searching for...

Cat durid is 4 fite!

Pariah Press wrote:Oh, let's call the whole thing off!

lol

Bravo, Pariah, bravo.


(On a side note, this thread is an outstanding argument for learning IPA)

Dire Wombat wrote:(On a side note, this thread is an outstanding argument for learning IPA)

IPA? India Pale Ale?

Abadabadoobaddon wrote:
IPA? India Pale Ale?

I'm down.

PistolWraithCaine wrote:

Abadabadoobaddon wrote:
IPA? India Pale Ale?

I'm down.

Oops, sorry. I have no idea why I expected "IPA" to be comprehensible without saying what it stood for. Yeah, I'm dumb (or at least way too lazy).

IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet

Linguists use it to write things out, well, phonetically. In theory, it has sufficient symbols to represent every meaningful sound ("phoneme") in human speech, as well as many allophones of those phonemes (other sounds which don't change the meaning... e.g., "t[sup]h[/sup]" for the t-sound in "top" and "t" for the t-sound in "stop"... different, but doesn't change the meaning, at least not in English). If you include a sufficient level of detail, you can write with regional accents, which is just awesome. Okay, I'm getting sidetracked.

Basically, it lets you write everything phonetically while being totally clear to anyone else who knows how to read it, avoiding the hilarious hodgepodges of different phonetic spellings that invariably pop up otherwise. Of course, those are half the fun of these discussions, so maybe it's best left alone.


edit: Umm... pretend my superscript tags work on the forums, so [sup]h[/sup] is a superscript h.

You should hear the awful pronunciation some people at my local FLG have.

Tyre-anids
Inkisition
Daymon
Dread-nougats

Terrible.

"Dread-nougats?" Like with peanuts and caramel? LOL.

Indeed. I kept pimp-slapping the guy who said it like that until he learned to say it correctly.

Anyone ever hear somebody say tazeentch? Cause I have....:(

In before closed.

Drednuggets sounds cool.

Dire Wombat wrote:

PistolWraithCaine wrote:

Abadabadoobaddon wrote:
IPA? India Pale Ale?

I'm down.

Oops, sorry. I have no idea why I expected "IPA" to be comprehensible without saying what it stood for. Yeah, I'm dumb (or at least way too lazy).

IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet

Linguists use it to write things out, well, phonetically. In theory, it has sufficient symbols to represent every meaningful sound ("phoneme") in human speech, as well as many allophones of those phonemes (other sounds which don't change the meaning... e.g., "t[sup]h[/sup]" for the t-sound in "top" and "t" for the t-sound in "stop"... different, but doesn't change the meaning, at least not in English). If you include a sufficient level of detail, you can write with regional accents, which is just awesome. Okay, I'm getting sidetracked.

Basically, it lets you write everything phonetically while being totally clear to anyone else who knows how to read it, avoiding the hilarious hodgepodges of different phonetic spellings that invariably pop up otherwise. Of course, those are half the fun of these discussions, so maybe it's best left alone.


edit: Umm... pretend my superscript tags work on the forums, so [sup]h[/sup] is a superscript h.

I like ale better.

Nuts to IPA, I'd rather have Rickard's White with a slice of orange.

"Slice of Orange?" Get your fruit out of my beer!

For the record, I say Daymons. Probably the Christian upbringing in me. I think the Greek word is pronounced Daymons, though...

Dreadnuggets, lol...

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Nah dude, orange with a white beer is awesome. Saying, daymons is kind of awkward so I say demons regardless of original pronunciation.

It's pronounced Demons in Dawn of War and that's how GW say it.

Chay-oss. AGREE

Shy-mara. DISAGREE. "Ky-mera." Again, it's a Greek word - the CH makes a K noise.

Baskee-lisk. DISAGREE. There's only one K in 'Basilisk.' Bas-UH-lisk.

Ten-zentch. DISAGREE. Tzar. Tzeentch. "Zeentch."

Ka-horn. DISAGREE. Where's the 'a' noise coming from, between the K and the H? Isn't it like "CORN?"

Nerjle. DISAGREE. NUR-gul. Based off pronunciation of ancient Babylonian god of death.

Slay-neeesh. NOT SURE. I say "Slah-nesh," because I like the 'aah' noise better than a hard 'a,' but that could be personal preference.