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Elric of Grans wrote:

number9dream wrote:Imperium is an actual english word tho.

Yeah, but modern English is just German mixed with French and then further influenced by every other language under the sun.

Every language used in the last two thousand years is just an amalgamation of the languages that came before. Humans were able to communicate through speech thousands of years before recorded history.

Elric of Grans wrote:

number9dream wrote:Imperium is an actual english word tho.

Yeah, but modern English is just German mixed with French and then further influenced by every other language under the sun.

Even so, the origin of that word is listed as Latin not German. Anyhow, lots of languages share lots of words - languages like swedish, german, english are pretty closely related, as you are saying. My point was just that it's not a german word used in english, but a naturalized english word.

EDIT: Hm, maybe getting back on topic is better

canute wrote:Maybe they're going to offer a GW credit card. Now they can hit us with a yearly(9 month) price rise and interest.

This is the most realistic suggestion in this entire thread, and I find that deeply disturbing. There are plenty of stores with their own cards, so a GW store card is not without precedent. Given the propensity of gamers to buy far more minis than they'll ever paint, combined with the idea of just "putting it on the card", and exacerbated by (given GW's pricing) oh, I dunno, a 30% APR.....

Yeah, I can see a wave of bankruptcies due to people buying too many toy soldiers showing up on CNN. :(

H.B.M.C. wrote:I heard they're going to build a huge SKULL pit, Skulltaker style, so that once their price rise starts bringing in the big bucks they can all buy skulls and bathe in them.

Fixed your typo...

John wrote:

Flachzange wrote:I still cant get over the fact that they actually named the novel Grey Knights Graue Ritter in Germany.

See?

If I were in Germany, the amount of eye-rolling would be painful.

re: "Imperium"

Its a latin word- not German, not English- Its Latin. That it may have been co-opted into other languages is secondary- its a Roman word.

Watch them announce a 20% price increase across the board

H.B.M.C. wrote:I heard they're going to build a huge money pit, Scrooge McDuck style, so that once their price rise starts bringing in the big bucks they can all go swiming in money.

That would be awesome.

I hope that email campaign took effect and they are making my life's dream,Codex:Snotlings.

Scottywan82 wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:I heard they're going to build a huge money pit, Scrooge McDuck style, so that once their price rise starts bringing in the big bucks they can all go swiming in money.

That would be awesome.

"Looming at the horizon of Nottingham, I saw this huge square building with a skull embedded in it's every facing..."

MeanGreenStompa wrote:my guess, Space Hulk or Blood Ravens codex

Would be my guess too.
The community knows much more about other armybooks or codices that are subject to realease than of one of these two possible releases.

Thier new super secret project is "Grot Hulk."

You heard it here first!

Grot 6 wrote:Thier new super secret project is "Grot Hulk."

You heard it here first!

That would be a very quick one sided game.

The super secret project no one has heard of is because it's a project from the marketing department, they are going to raise all prices another 25% due to the ever increasing costs of the recycled cardboard they use to make their boxes out of.

krazynadechukr2 wrote:

Kungfuhustler wrote:

krazynadechukr2 wrote:

Anung Un Rama wrote:I was at the local GW store today and there was a poster for the Games Day which said that at the German Gamesday they would show us some sort of new exciting thing!

C'Mon! Really? This post is still alive and not stopped? Good god, I posted a legit post under rumours about the new plastic stormtroopers coming out aug/sep with confirmed photos and dropped names of GW artists and staff that gave it to me, and that post was stopped within moments by admin as "unverifiable rumour" or some c%$p....But this? This vague claim "something is coming from GW" is left to wander off in untold chicken hen rambels? Geesh!

...YOU NEVER POSTED THE PICS. I call BS. As much as I'd like to believe you, you said there were pics. They have not been posted. C'mon man, where are they?

MOD Frazzled froze topic before I could get pic up.....
I was one of the first to post the 3 up green version with shotty.....
My other post was frozen before I could get the cell phone pic up of the kneeling stormtrooper/kasrkin model.....from a forwarded cell phone pic, enlarged, sharpened......

So.... No more replies from this guy? Really? I'm shocked.

Kungfuhustler wrote:

Elric of Grans wrote:

number9dream wrote:Imperium is an actual english word tho.

Yeah, but modern English is just German mixed with French and then further influenced by every other language under the sun.

Pfft. Foreigners. Everyone here in the USA, greatest nation on god's green earth, knows that english was the 1st language ever written and that those other, inferior, languages are simply poor replicas. Your education system has duped you, sir.

seriosly, no offence to the many yanks who frequent this forum, but i really hate what the americans have done to our beautiful language, english is called english because its from england, i hate how the americans think that they invented the language.

ohh and back on topic, i think that it will be space hulk, so not much to write home about.

I think Kungfuhustler was being sarcastic there.

At least I hope he was.


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I'm trying to think of any other German words in Warhammer.

There is of course Inquisitor Eisenhorn and if I recall correctly, the Inquisitor featured in the White Dwarf =I= a lot was called Lichtenstein.

I prefer Lichenstien.

But in other terms, if it is Space Hulk, do you reckon it'll be limited to Terminators and Nids again, or more broad?

Disjointed Entity wrote:But in other terms, if it is Space Hulk, do you reckon it'll be limited to Terminators and Nids again, or more broad?

Out of the box Terminators & Genestealers. If it proves to be a success who knows.

So, if Brimstone said something about it, does that mean it will be Spacehulk?

Knowing GW, I wouldn't be shocked if it's just the pre-release for Space Wolves.

Brimstone wrote:

Disjointed Entity wrote:But in other terms, if it is Space Hulk, do you reckon it'll be limited to Terminators and Nids again, or more broad?

Out of the box Terminators & Genestealers. If it proves to be a success who knows.

Slightly disappointed by this news (was hoping for something new on the Terminator front, but with AoBR versions somewhat new too, I guess not!), but still excited by a new version of Space Hulk!

Lt Scourge wrote:

Kungfuhustler wrote:
Pfft. Foreigners. Everyone here in the USA, greatest nation on god's green earth, knows that english was the 1st language ever written and that those other, inferior, languages are simply poor replicas. Your education system has duped you, sir.

seriosly, no offence to the many yanks who frequent this forum, but i really hate what the americans have done to our beautiful language, english is called english because its from england, i hate how the americans think that they invented the language.

ohh and back on topic, i think that it will be space hulk, so not much to write home about.

K, I can't just let this one slide. I've never seen such obvious sarcasm get misinterpreted over petty arrogance. Do you also hate what our Australian Dakkaites have done to your language? Or anybody else that speaks English with something other than a British accent? Have you ever actually heard an American say that Americans invented English? (Besides in a forum post which is absolutely dripping with sarcasm) To hate a culture for simply using a dialect or accent that isn't yours... I can't even fathom such xenophobia.

Yeah, it's odd. Usually we direct our xenophobia at the Asians...

I have in fact, ive met americans who have stated that we stole the language from them, ive also met candians and australians who also abuse the language, but these are mainly former colonial states, and they can actually speak english correctly, ive been told by an american that im not speaking correct english, that is the type of thing that im opposed to. I did realise the sarcasm i just thought that i would take the oppertunity to vocalise my views.

Lt Scourge wrote:but i really hate what the americans have done to our beautiful language,

Aye, 'cause it was reet good like before them divies came along and messed it all aboot, wern't it fella.

Bloody yanks, taking are "beautiful language."

I was about to mention that the 'English language isn't even particularly consistent across the UK, if Monty Python, Life on Mars, and Dr. Who have taught me anything.

(I've heard things have broken down as in the last decade or two policies on television personalities in the UK that pretty much mandated 'proper' English accent have been dropped, so you hear a bit more pronounced accents and such now... Otherwise, it seems like everyone sounded like John Cleese. Not that there's anything wrong, as he's got a good voice.)

does any of you guys really think that GW has something in the pipeline that nobody knows of ?
highly unlikely if you ask me.

just checked the german GW website, this years games day shirt is "geheimsache" (man i love those german words ) meaning the motive will have something to do with the new product they will present.


i still think its spacehulk but its GW, so it could be something so well known to us that we would at least have a good laugh out of it

funny thread though and he really doesn't look THAT bad
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3492291392/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=299956&s=books

I honestly don't think they can keep a secret. It'll be something we already knew about, like Space Hulk.

whatwhat wrote:

Lt Scourge wrote:but i really hate what the americans have done to our beautiful language,

Aye, 'cause it was reet good like before them divies came along and messed it all aboot, wern't it fella.

Bloody yanks, taking are "beautiful language." [sic]

Irony alert!

Linquisticly, American English is closer to the english spoken in ~1800 then modern England English is.