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It is of course pronounced with a roar, as if having returned home from a brutal session at the gym, pulling up on the driveway on a Harley Davison with long flowing hair and ripped leathers, declaring to loved ones that you are indeed home and expect your tea on the table in the next five minutes, with a complementory side beer...
"Tie-RRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN-ids!"
..."tear-an-ids" is a bit too gentle for man-eating monsters from outer space. They have no tears nor fears and never miss tea time...
Brits will do anything but accept they stole that word from the french
Actually whilst we are famous for stealing lots of things.... that one is likely similar to a lot of French derived words in English - a result of the 1066 invasion and conquest of England by the Normans. It's also why a fair few "upper class/posh" words are often french derived because they brought over their own nobility and promoted them into positions of power in England. So the upper classes adopted more of the French elements than some of the lower classes.
Yup - good example is in the names of meat for food: Boeuf, mouton, porc - derive from the French, as it was the French nobility that were doing the eating...
Sure, if it's Leh-tenant, fine. But you have to start pronouncing Colonel correctly. It's from the french as well, so drop that crappy R, you're not from Massachusetts. Col ol nel, damnit! Imagine a french woman saying it in three syllables.
Ah- the best kind of pronunciation guide- one that swamps the 'correct' pronunciations with incorrect ones, so the audience still doesn't learn anything.
May be tongue in cheek but I finally have an official source to point friends to that have been calling Abaddon "a-bad-in"
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I still call him A-bad-don, not Abba-don. And I ain't never gon' call 'em "Ar-bee-tees". Nosiree!
They should have cleared up some of the longer-standing ones:
1. K'Tan or S'Tan (obviously the first one) 2. Lahz-cannon or Lays-cannon (obviously the first one) 3. Cah-tah-chan or Cah-tah-kan (obviously the first one)
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H.B.M.C. wrote: I still call him A-bad-don, not Abba-don. And I ain't never gon' call 'em "Ar-bee-tees". Nosiree!
They should have cleared up some of the longer-standing ones:
1. K'Can or S'Can (obviously the first one)
2. Lahz-cannon or Lays-cannon (obviously the first one)
3. Cah-tah-chan or Cah-tah-kan (obviously the first one)
Is number #1 supposed to be pronunciations for C'tan? Why wouldn't you just say it like it's spelled? (Soft) C - tan.
H.B.M.C. wrote: I still call him A-bad-don, not Abba-don. And I ain't never gon' call 'em "Ar-bee-tees". Nosiree!
They should have cleared up some of the longer-standing ones:
1. K'Tan or S'Tan (obviously the first one)
2. Lahz-cannon or Lays-cannon (obviously the first one)
3. Cah-tah-chan or Cah-tah-kan (obviously the first one)
Ah, fair enough.
Over the years fantasy/sci-fi names have gotten to the point that I can't fault people for misspelling them. The sheer nonsense of syllables jammed together to make up new fake words isn't worth worrying about.
Crispy78 wrote: So what's the singular? Is it one ar-bee-tee? One cuss-toe-dee? Because that sounds gak.
Arbiter.
the real screwy one they skipped over is "skitarii", which if we kept to the latin rules, would be "ski-ta-ri-i"..
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Crispy78 wrote: So what's the singular? Is it one ar-bee-tee? One cuss-toe-dee? Because that sounds gak.
Abitrator. Custodian. The pig Latin only seems to apply to the collective.
Stormonu wrote: For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
the real screwy one they skipped over is "skitarii", which if we kept to the latin rules, would be "ski-ta-ri-i"..
I can’t tell if you are asking about the pronunciation or what the singular would be, if you’re asking about the singular, it’s skitarius, if not, I also think it would sound very strange pronounced that way and I’m looking forward to (hopefully) getting more pronunciation guides.
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