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Nerfgun /thread

 Skinnereal wrote:
Lazz-gun, because it goes Zzap when you fire it.

Then we should call them pew-pewguns

It's pronounced Lays-gun and they go Freeem

 Luke_Prowler wrote:
It's pronounced Lays-gun and they go Freeem

Everybody knows only lascannons go "FREEEM"

Lazzgun, supported by everything English and SciFi for the last 30+ years.

So many on here have said "laz-gun" meaning...what?

LazZ or LazE???

I say "laze" as in short for 'laser'...the only thing that makes sense. You wouldn't shorten robot to 'boot' - it's a 'bot!

The proper way.

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
who cares?

You are a spark of brightness in an otherwise dreary and depressing world Falcon.

Yes, that was sarcasm.

Yeah, it's SUPPOSED to be pronounced lays-gun, it being a laser.

That said, it always sounds too dorky to my ears, which is why I do lazz-gun. Euphonia for the win!

 Brother Captain Alexander wrote:
And I think that correct one will be Lass not Lazz, if you listen to Guardsmen battle cries in DoW I and II you can heard them saying "Cleanse them with Lass".

Wait, I think you just changed my mind! We all know DoW is the gold-standard for the correct pronunciation of everything in 40K. That's why I'm thinking about starting a spess mahreens army of the blud rehvens chapter, so that I can fight for the gloareh of the EMPRAH. Clearly, it must be lassguns...

Me and everyone at my club pronounces it "lassguns" and in what a stereotypical sctosman would call a young lady

Don't really think there is a right or wrong answer here

 Grey Templar wrote:
Lazz gun.

"LA" as in Late. Zzzz. and gun.

Then you're pronouncing it as "Laze".



Lazzgun is correct. Like "lass" but with z's.


/thread

 Skarwael wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
Lazz gun.

"LA" as in Late. Zzzz. and gun.

Then you're pronouncing it as "Laze".



Lazzgun is correct. Like "lass" but with z's.


/thread

Unless Grey Templar meant to spell it Laté, which makes it lazz again

I came across a chap who had to pronounce shruiken as:

sh- hur - i - ken

almost sounded like hurricane with the i pronounced as in tyranids.

rather than
shrewken

Drove me up the wall.

It drove me up the wall.

 Ailaros wrote:
Yeah, it's SUPPOSED to be pronounced lays-gun, it being a laser. That said, it always sounds too dorky to my ears, which is why I do lazz-gun. Euphonia for the win!

This might be my answer, if I ever actually had cause to say it out loud. "Lazz" just sounds better, to me, but makes less sense than "laze," so I tend to bounce back and forth when pronouncing it in my head. I'm a fickle creature.

It's "lazz-gun" - and I can offer a number of reasons why.

1) it's pronounced this way whenever it turns up in licensed GW videogames (Space Marine also references the "lazz-cannon").
2) it's a British game, and I notice the other British posters are agreeing with me.
3) ...dammit, it's our language as well. Grey, not gray, even if it does make more sense that way. *slaps all the US wrists in the thread so far*

I pronounce it lazz-gun as that's how it's usually pronounced in the video games, also laze-gun sounds like it fires chips.

Lazzgun. If I were to hear it pronounced otherwise it would probably tick me off as much as hearing people call turrets turrents....

lass and lazz are ok. Laze is stupid. 'I'll bring out my LAZE CANNON'

so you're going to fire bags of crisps/chips at me.

Good job

 EmilCrane wrote:

Don't really think there is a right or wrong answer here

While I voted for LAZZ since that's the most obvious to me, I really think the quote is relevant. You can't be wrong pronouncing a made-up word. Logic is hardly something the English language uses when it comes to spelling and pronunciation.

 PrinceRaven wrote:
I pronounce it lazz-gun as that's how it's usually pronounced in the video games, also laze-gun sounds like it fires chips.
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Might as well fire free chips, that would likely do more damage.

"I got an ide-"
*BLAM* "No thinking! Rather, I have an idea. Let's shoot them with chips, let them become horridly overweight, and then we run them over with bayonets!"

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
Flashlight

who cares?

the space marine at the end of about 50 of them.

 Flinty wrote:


But thankfully we don't need 12 different versions of "the"

Zing!

Laz-Gun here.

General Annoyance wrote:
lass and lazz are ok. Laze is stupid. 'I'll bring out my LAZE CANNON'

so you're going to fire bags of crisps/chips at me.

Good job

Kill them with Carbs!

Death to the Healthy

But it "layz" waste to all who oppose it!!! That's probably where the name originally came from!

 amanita wrote:
But it "layz" waste to all who oppose it!!! That's probably where the name originally came from!

[l(ight) a(mplification by) s(timulated) e(mission of) r(adiation).]. It's still laz gun, Gaunts Ghosts call it a laz for short /thread.

Some of the disagreement here is due to pronunciation differences from other countries. The easiest way to figure this out is to say "Laser" now say "Gun" now say both together but take out the "er" in between.

 Lobukia wrote:

 amanita wrote:
But it "layz" waste to all who oppose it!!! That's probably where the name originally came from!

[l(ight) a(mplification by) s(timulated) e(mission of) r(adiation).]. It's still laz gun, Gaunts Ghosts call it a laz for short /thread.

Overshoot much?