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I like this thread for its satirical value.
We should make a competition of who manages to get the most nominated words into as short a paragraph as possible. Whoever evokes the most cringes wins.



And so did Space Wolves Battle-Brother Lupus snarl with a wet leopard growl, the heretical stench of ozone tickling in his grimdark nostrils and stirring his choler. For every enemy he cleaved with phlegmatic blows, throwing their flensed body to the ground with a thud, another two took his place. "Frak", he grunted.

Any emphatic word / superlative expression related to a space marine.

Because a SM does not draw his sword. "Like an hero of old, he displayed an amazing skill at swordmanship only removing his fine mastercrafted artificier artefact blade of the ancient from the overly decorated scabard".

A SM squad does not get ready to fight. "Like a perfectly oiled war machine, the whole squad acts as a single man to cover every single entry point of the room". I always though single mind would refer to tyrannids. And note that the sentence always work, even if there is 10 space marines in the squad and 11 holes to cover.

A SM does no go to the WC. "Walking away with a superior air of dignity and wisdom, Brother Commander Iamthebest walked gracefully to his reserved space for intimacy."

Stop emphasis. Now.

Nvision wrote:
I've been delving into the associated fluff for the 40K universe, picking up several audiobooks to listen to while I work. One thing has quickly become clear...40K authors clearly have a hard-on for certain words. Perhaps it's part of a Black Library style guide, or such, but I notice several words coming up with an unusually high occurrence. I think "flensing," or "flensed" is currently in a tie with "geyser/geysered/geysering."

Are there other thesaurus-denying repeat offenders you've come across?

Can i ask where you get your audio books? That would certainly help the work day go faster. You can PM me if you cant post the link here

"Choler", and recently I seem to notice "bespoke" a lot.

If I read ,"The Emperor protects." one more time.

I also hate chagrin. No one uses that in real life but it is in every single book I read. Writers are in love with it much to my chagrin.

NSFW:



The Calamity.

Mythra wrote:
If I read ,"The Emperor protects." one more time.

I also hate chagrin. No one uses that in real life but it is in every single book I read. Writers are in love with it much to my chagrin.

The Emperor protects those who chagrin the enemies of man.

"spraying gore." I also object to the term "lasrifles." How does one rifle a laser beam?

Exactly like the Tau rifle their plasma.

 CuddlySquig wrote:
"spraying gore." I also object to the term "lasrifles." How does one rifle a laser beam?

Fancy mirrors and miniaturized disco balls in the energizing chamber and focusing optics. It's always a Saturday night in 1977 inside a lasrifle.

 DemetriDominov wrote:
NSFW:

Spoiler:

The Calamity.

I...what the...was that a stroke? is that what having a stroke is like?

 Messy0 wrote:

Can i ask where you get your audio books? That would certainly help the work day go faster. You can PM me if you cant post the link here

Just picking them up from Black Library, directly... I work in the arts and I've had my own stuff pirated, so it would be a little hypocritical for me to go torrenting willy-nilly (though I did have those broke college years) :p I even had a game leaked by someone in Apple QA, as our gamecentre stats showed only 30% of users were paid and registered on release day!

Does a wet leopard growl differently to a dry leopard?

 Necroagogo wrote:
Does a wet leopard growl differently to a dry leopard?

I would assume there's a hint of gargling mixed in there when it's wet...

Astartes and Marine.

"and he smiled but the smile never reached his eyes."


Sooo many times I have read that.

Eldritch and abomination

George RR Martin kills words right when you think they're being used too much.

Raulengrin wrote:
George RR Martin kills words right when you think they're being used too much.

Isnt that just his alzheimers?

No, just his characters.

I like how this thread satirizes the "good" BL authors rather than complaining about multilasers and back-flipping terminators

Patrician
Sanguine
Choler
Phlegmatic
anathema

It´s not a certain expression but i feel it´s utterly boring that every strike or shot ever taken in the wh40k-universe always has to take the head off. people in the future have to have pretty long necks...

Space Marine.

 Lynata wrote:



And so did Space Wolves Battle-Brother Lupus snarl with a wet leopard growl, the heretical stench of ozone tickling in his grimdark nostrils and stirring his choler. For every enemy he cleaved with phlegmatic blows, throwing their flensed body to the ground with a thud, another two took his place. "Frak", he grunted.

Oh Emperor.... The pain....

ragingmunkyz wrote:Anyone who read Prospero Burns will likely agree that Dan Abnett's over reliance on the phrase "wet leopard growl" as a descriptor for how every single space wolf talks eventually became so grating that it distracted from whatever was going on in the book every time he used it. It got to a point where I wanted to tear the page out of the book each time he would recycle that expression. Really Dan? In all of the english language you couldn't find one other word or group of words to convey how a space wolf might sound?

QFT:

'"Wet leopard growl," remarked Wet Leopard Growl, with a wet leopard growl, like a leopard. When it growls. Wetly.' - pp. 1-416 Prospero Burns

Other than that great book, though.

Abnett wrote A Thousand Sons. McNeil wrote Prospero Burns. Just so you know.

Dammit, I did have a whole list of words that seem to come up all the time, but it's gone now. Mostly superlatives.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

ragingmunkyz wrote:Anyone who read Prospero Burns will likely agree that Dan Abnett's over reliance on the phrase "wet leopard growl" as a descriptor for how every single space wolf talks eventually became so grating that it distracted from whatever was going on in the book every time he used it. It got to a point where I wanted to tear the page out of the book each time he would recycle that expression. Really Dan? In all of the english language you couldn't find one other word or group of words to convey how a space wolf might sound?

QFT:

'"Wet leopard growl," remarked Wet Leopard Growl, with a wet leopard growl, like a leopard. When it growls. Wetly.' - pp. 1-416 Prospero Burns

Other than that great book, though.

Abnett wrote A Thousand Sons. McNeil wrote Prospero Burns. Just so you know.

Dammit, I did have a whole list of words that seem to come up all the time, but it's gone now. Mostly superlatives.

Nope. He was right to begin with. You've got it reversed.

Ruined, rubble, charred, frak, choler, imperium

I was actually having a conversation with a guy at the local Fantasy Flight Games about just such a topic. He told me how he used to work in editing for GW's product line phrasing (or something), specifically about the Mechanicus building and how there used to be so many spellings of the term for plurals and such.