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Ravenous D wrote: 40K is like a beloved grandparent that is slowly falling into dementia and the rest of the family is in denial about how bad it is.
squidhills wrote: GW is scared of girls. Why do you think they have so much trouble sculpting attractive female models? Because girls have cooties and the staff at GW don't like looking at them for too long because it makes them feel funny in their naughty place.
I've always pronounced it Ah-grin (first part sounds like the start of father).
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Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Orks always ride in single file to hide their strength and numbers.
Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, Gozer the Traveler, and Lord of the Sebouillia
So, I live in Champaign, IL, which is right on the linguistic border between north and south, and it's kind of interesting. You go to a Hardees, for example, but they have southern accents. You'll hear someone talking in a midwestern accent, but then you'll get a "warsh" or an "AI-talian".
This translates to my FLGS as well. I've heard ogryn pronounced both ways, as well as a bunch of other stuff (khim-era vs. Ch-im-era, for example).
IL side of St. Louis here. 5 minutes south of me is like the mason-dixon line. It's goes from normal to nawmull, ya'll. And by normal i mean hard core St. Louis accent.
knife and fark.
route farty far.
farest park.
ahffice building.
harse drawn carriage.
As long as you say soda and not pop you're ok in my book.
Ravenous D wrote: 40K is like a beloved grandparent that is slowly falling into dementia and the rest of the family is in denial about how bad it is.
squidhills wrote: GW is scared of girls. Why do you think they have so much trouble sculpting attractive female models? Because girls have cooties and the staff at GW don't like looking at them for too long because it makes them feel funny in their naughty place.
So, I live in Champaign, IL, which is right on the linguistic border between north and south, and it's kind of interesting. You go to a Hardees, for example, but they have southern accents. You'll hear someone talking in a midwestern accent, but then you'll get a "warsh" or an "AI-talian".
This translates to my FLGS as well. I've heard ogryn pronounced both ways, as well as a bunch of other stuff (khim-era vs. Ch-im-era, for example).
Few friends from around there pronounce Griffon, gwhry fon
deviantduck wrote: s long as you say soda and not pop you're ok in my book.
I call it soda pop.
Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Orks always ride in single file to hide their strength and numbers.
Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, Gozer the Traveler, and Lord of the Sebouillia
This one is less of an accent thing, but I have yet to run across a player say Prescience right. well of the players that actually use it and say it out loud that is.
Its like precious, but with an N. Presh-ince.
All these players calling it pre-science, as if we were doing something before science was invented. Prescience is a real word, that has an actual meaning and I think a lot of people miss that and take it as another crazy 40k term.
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Don't make me break out the "what area are you from based on your dialect" quiz that everybody was posting on Facebook a few months back (US only I am afraid).
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BrianDavion wrote: Between the two of us... I think GW is assuming we the players are not complete idiots.
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Icculus wrote: This one is less of an accent thing, but I have yet to run across a player say Prescience right. well of the players that actually use it and say it out loud that is.
Its like precious, but with an N. Presh-ince.
All these players calling it pre-science, as if we were doing something before science was invented. Prescience is a real word, that has an actual meaning and I think a lot of people miss that and take it as another crazy 40k term.
I pronounce it "Pre-see-ense". I have not heard it pronounced either way before. It's kinda weird even if it is correct.
I have, though, heard someone pronounce Chimera as "Chi-mera". I pronounce it "Kye-mera" myself.
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Icculus wrote:All these players calling it pre-science, as if we were doing something before science was invented.
Umm... I hate to bring linguistics here, but that's actually what it means, in a way. Science means "to know". Prescience, therefore, is what you know before it is known - that is, it happens, and everybody else gets to observe, record, and thus know about it.
So prescience actually is what happens before science. Just, perhaps, in a different way than you intend.
There's a chance one of them knows the etymology. I'd cut them a bit of slack.
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As for people being uppety about "chimera", that's an easy one.
If someone says it's CHimera rather than KHimera, then ask "well, why don't you pronounce it CH-arisma, or CH-aracteristic?"
If someone says it's KHimera not CHimera, then ask "well, why don't you pronounce it KH-ariot or KH-arity?"
English hates Greek pronunciation of things. No reason to be annoying about it.
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Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Orks always ride in single file to hide their strength and numbers.
Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, Gozer the Traveler, and Lord of the Sebouillia
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