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I pronounce it like kitten, but with an a in place of the e.

Hellfury 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.

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

Phonics, people. Elementary language skills.

Alright, we get it. "Hellfury is smrter than u!"

Now shut up before us uneduseeated Seelownshoes feel inseelined to seeurbstomp you.

Ah, they took my picture away . . .

Did someone know the guy?

Camembert.

silversurferwithrobes


That is how you say it.

The C' in C'tan is pronounced like the C in Cthulhu. That is to say, horribly and in a variety of ways.

Burna Stompa wrote:

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?

1.Chee-meH-rah
2.Tyr-ra-nids
3.leeman
4.c-taan

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

Agreed.

CF Scout wrote:I pronounce it like kitten, but with an a in place of the e.

Or this. Oh it is sooo cute.



"Note"
The kitten is drinking your soul.

Su-Dan

H.B.M.C. wrote:Camembert.

lmao

Kasrkin, about the only word GW bothered to explain the pronunciation of in the EoT codex.

I know how IG Guardsmen pronounce C'tan.

"oh F...."


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And they pronounce Nids;

"You are one ugly mother f..."

I apologies for starting this thread. It was a quiet moment in our first planetstrike game I was watching . My friend kept referring to the "Kah Taan" as "see tan". We had a little discussion on the matter and thought we would let the fine upstanding community of "the double D" sort it out. At least I managed to get him to say "gows" instead of "gorse" for his gauss weapons. Still I think the shame of starting this thread will forever weigh upon my mortal soul. I think the only thing to do is to take the honorable way out....and blame someone else.

I think some people are getting this very very wrong. Yes the letter C in combination with various other letters does conform to a more K or Ch sounding combo.....however, if you seperate C from any other letter, then its simply a C!

Therefore the C'Tan would be pronounced Ceetan!

I think, like a few others have pointed out, that the name is derived from the name Satan, in true GW fashion.....

Anyho....it matters not, I will continue to call them the Ceetan as it makes a lot more sense than Katan....

Honestly. Look at all the dirty little foreign chaps trying to tell me how to speak the language my country invented (with liberal 'donations' from other European Countries. And definitely donations. Certainly not the proceeds of following said other European Countries down dark allies, smacking them around a bit then running off with their big bag o'words)

C as in Curl. Tan as it is pronounced.

You may now go back to being dirty foreign types.

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.

lol...

A Z'tan is a Zee-tan?

unless your Canadian then its Zed-Tan


My answer is:

Ka-tan

In my opinion
C'tan= sharp C as in cake Tan as in I tanned his hide.
Chimera= Chimbo saves time and your brain
Tyranids= 'Nids
I used to pronounce leman as lemon but its now Leemaan.
And its laz not lays because I am British Not a colonial savage.

Don't really think I can accurately comment on this topic, since this is the man who for years pronounced Khorne "Krone". Not certain why I did, think maybe I just didn't like the idea that the Blood God's name sounded like a crap band and a cereal crop .

Orkeosaurus wrote: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.

It's similar to the T in Tsunami..

Wow...I just wasted about ten minutes

My friends pronounce it See"Tan.
One pronounces it Suh 'Tan, but it sounds like he's saying "Satan".

I just say Kuh'Tan

BrookM wrote:Kasrkin, about the only word GW bothered to explain the pronunciation of in the EoT codex.

Do tell please

JediRaptor wrote:Wow...I just wasted about ten minutes

But ... but it was only two pages with barely any pictures

...Is this a serious thread?

There is no sharp C.
It is pronounced S'Tan.
Yeesh.

Flachzange wrote:

BrookM wrote:Kasrkin, about the only word GW bothered to explain the pronunciation of in the EoT codex.

Do tell please

According to GW: Kas-er-kin.

BrookM wrote:

Flachzange wrote:

BrookM wrote:Kasrkin, about the only word GW bothered to explain the pronunciation of in the EoT codex.

Do tell please

According to GW: Kas-er-kin.

Yay, I got it right!

I get so angry when people misspell Kasrkin. Seeing 'Karskin' or Kaskrin' drives me nuts. No idea why though.

Cheese Elemental wrote:I get so angry when people misspell Kasrkin. Seeing 'Karskin' or Kaskrin' drives me nuts. No idea why though.

Well, your avatar says it really. It's Lee-man, not lemon Russ. People don't bother to properly read.

Plus over ninety percent of the people in the hobby are self-diagnosed apsies or dyslexics!

Well, chimera is actually a word with an actual pronounciation, so you can look it up in the dictionary. The rest are made up. Still, I can't wait for someone to call their tank a "Lemon-Russ".