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Read the 4th line. The first one is in English, the fourth is supposedly "German"



German? More like ORKISH!

The Germans have cooler names for all the models though.

The battlewagon is called a kampfpanzerwagen or something like that, which is AT LEAST 200% cooler.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
The Germans have cooler names for all the models though.

The battlewagon is called a kampfpanzerwagen or something like that, which is AT LEAST 200% cooler.

I looked on the GW site to see if this is true, and its called an Ork-kampfpanza

KAMPFPANZA!

The Orks originally had a very German punk/WW1 theme, with Pickelhaubes, spikes, bikes, Stielhandgranates, rock music and black leather and they still do, though it's slightly more toned down.

We are Orkz? More like Orkz are german!

Tankbustas are still the best. Panzerknackers.

Deff Dread is the best: Gargbot. If I ever paint up my deff dread (not likely under the current rules) that will be his name, painted across the hull.

The ww2 german anti-tank weapons were the tank fist (panzerfaust) and the tank fear (panzerschreck). They do have a way with words

My other favourite german words are auflauf and warscheinlich, but neither is particularly relevant

 Flinty wrote:
My other favourite german words are auflauf and warscheinlich, but neither is particularly relevant

Nudelauflauf ist eines meiner Lieblingsgerichte

I'm quite happy with most of the german names too. Sturmflut sounds better than Riptide, Geißel better than Defiler and Venator better than Ravener

Bludbaff wrote:
Deff Dread is the best: Gargbot. If I ever paint up my deff dread (not likely under the current rules) that will be his name, painted across the hull.

Paint it anyway. It was my favorite ork unit to paint in my army.

 Shadox wrote:
. Sturmflut sounds better than Riptide,

Yeah, I'm going to be stuck calling it the Stormflute from now on...

I like Scriptor instead of Librarian way more but what where they thinking when they translated Dreadnaught into Cybot

 Grimtuff wrote:
Tankbustas are still the best. Panzerknackers.

Oddly enough, that's actually the nickname of a real anti-tank weapon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafthohlladung

 Grimtuff wrote:
Tankbustas are still the best. Panzerknackers.

They call them Tank Knockers? That's hilariously appropriate.

I want to see the Ork Codex in German. That has to be the most orky codex of them all.

Can you imagine the awesome that is the ork language in German?

"Ich bin da Hand von Gork un’ Mork, die mich geschickt ha’m, um da Boyz zum Mosch’n un’ Eroba’n zusamm’nzutrommeln, weil ‘se vagäz’n ha’m, warum ‘se übahaupt da sin’. Ich wa’ auch ma’ so’n Heg’l, bis da Göttaz mich auf’n Kopp gehaun ha’m un’ mir wieda einfiel, dat Orkzä alläz eroba’n soll’n und allä untawerf’n, die se nich gleich auf’a Stellä wegmosch’n."

The big lad Ghazghkull himself

 Shadox wrote:
"Ich bin da Hand von Gork un’ Mork, die mich geschickt ha’m, um da Boyz zum Mosch’n un’ Eroba’n zusamm’nzutrommeln, weil ‘se vagäz’n ha’m, warum ‘se übahaupt da sin’. Ich wa’ auch ma’ so’n Heg’l, bis da Göttaz mich auf’n Kopp gehaun ha’m un’ mir wieda einfiel, dat Orkzä alläz eroba’n soll’n und allä untawerf’n, die se nich gleich auf’a Stellä wegmosch’n."

The big lad Ghazghkull himself

Stella? Hell, if the Orks are swilling down the old Wife Beater, that certainly goes a long way to explaining their behaviour

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:
Tankbustas are still the best. Panzerknackers.

They call them Tank Knockers? That's hilariously appropriate.

I want to see the Ork Codex in German. That has to be the most orky codex of them all.

Can you imagine the awesome that is the ork language in German?

Knacker means "breaker" from what my google-fu tells me.

Note to self.

1. Learn German
2. Acquire German Ork Codex.
3. Make Audio book reading said codex in German.
4.???????
5. Profit

So what does the ork speech translate to in German? For example, in English they sound like a mixture between soccer hooligans, punk rockers, and drunk scottish demomen. I just can't imagine what the Germans would use for their "bizarre speech" bit.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
So what does the ork speech translate to in German? For example, in English they sound like a mixture between soccer hooligans, punk rockers, and drunk scottish demomen. I just can't imagine what the Germans would use for their "bizarre speech" bit.

Actually me neither

I can't assign this to a real dialect known to me, it just sounds really, really drunk.

MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:
Tankbustas are still the best. Panzerknackers.

They call them Tank Knockers? That's hilariously appropriate.

I want to see the Ork Codex in German. That has to be the most orky codex of them all.

Can you imagine the awesome that is the ork language in German?

Actually, it's tank crackers (knacken = to crack something open). Panzerknacker is, unintendedly funny, also the same name that Disney's Beagle Boys (Boyz?) got in German

MrMoustaffa wrote:So what does the ork speech translate to in German? For example, in English they sound like a mixture between soccer hooligans, punk rockers, and drunk scottish demomen. I just can't imagine what the Germans would use for their "bizarre speech" bit.

Ever since Baldur's Gate attempted to translate English accents to German accents (Scottish -> Bavarian, Irish -> Colonian, etc.), which was both a disaster and hilarious, translations usually try to just mimic those accents in German, without actually reflecting a real accent.
In German, the Ork-language sounds lazy, thick-headed and stubborn, which is pretty much what it is supposed to present. Really, really drunk might actually be very close, too

Funnily enough, most Ork units and items were given new English names, rather than actual German ones (Deff Dread -> Gargbot, Deffkopta -> Killa Kopta, Trukk -> Pikk-Up, Nob -> Boss). In addition all occurrences of "War" were replaced with "Waaagh", giving us Waaaghbikers and Waaaghbosses.
There are a couple of odd ones, too, for example the Shokk Attakk Gun become Snotzogga (well, it does zog snotlings...) and Flash Gits become Posaz.

As someone who speaks both languages, I can say that at least the spirit of the Ork fluff was transported to German very well. The rules however...

My favorite is still the Ork Trukk.

Pikk-Up Der Orks.

I like things that say what they do.

Oh god, I went on GW in German and went to the Necron tab.

Imotekh der Sturmherr.

Why am I laughing so hard?

Are the rules different in Germany? How does that work?

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Are the rules different in Germany? How does that work?

In Nazi Germany, Warhammer play you!

Btw is "Nob" a reference I don´t get or is it just a made-up word?

What I like about this topic is no German bashing.
I find anything sounds cool in German.
Heard Queen's song "One World" sung in their language.
I swear one part of it sounds exactly like "Get me a light beer for da world!".
I like Industrial music and it seems to be the one stop country for this style.

 insaniak wrote:

 Shadox wrote:
. Sturmflut sounds better than Riptide,

Yeah, I'm going to be stuck calling it the Stormflute from now on...

The Spanish translation "El Cataclismo" is even cooler.

tommse wrote:
Btw is "Nob" a reference I don´t get or is it just a made-up word?

Taken from Websters,

Definition of NOB
1
: head 1

2
: a jack of the same suit as the starter in cribbage that scores one point for the holder —usually used in the phrases his nob or his nobs

3
: Da boss whats bigga den da boyz but not as big as da Warboss.

 Talizvar wrote:
What I like about this topic is no German bashing.
I find anything sounds cool in German.
Heard Queen's song "One World" sung in their language.
I swear one part of it sounds exactly like "Get me a light beer for da world!".
I like Industrial music and it seems to be the one stop country for this style.

I made the thread and I'm german.

And I'm the only ork player at the place I play at.

tommse wrote:
Btw is "Nob" a reference I don´t get or is it just a made-up word?

In English slang, 'Nob' is short for 'noble'... It's presumably a corruption of that.