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forruner_mercy wrote:

Cheexsta wrote:

Worms4u wrote:How does one get 'Lef' out of 'Lieu' though? In English there isn't a way to get an 'eff' sound except from 'f' and 'ph'...

Not true - "tough"

Reminds me of the joke about how you could spell "fish" as "ghoti"... Google it if you can't figure it out.

chromedog wrote:
Vox - even though I KNOW "wox" is closer to the actual.

I suppose it depends on the era of Latin. Classical Latin (which is the one I'm more familiar with) lacked a "v" sound, but it IIRC existed in the medieval period. GW's pseudo-Latin is very much an Anglicised form of later Latin, so I imagine the "v" should be pronounced.

English is a fail language

I think you mean an awesome language.
It's like a widespread version of Welsh. Disgned very specifically to have exceptions to every rule if only to just annoy the hell out of everyone else that doesn't speak it. Actually that's not fair... Welsh tends to obey it's own rules.

It does annoy the hell out of everyone that does not speak it. People who speak English know it mostly because we grew up with it. It is a hard language.

Indeed, English breaks many of its own rules.

Of course, the main cause of this is that English is a combination of 2 different Language families(Romance and Germanic)

Grammatical chaos is assured when that happens. We basically pronounce things like a Germanic Language, but we spell like a Romance language. and naturally there are exceptions to this generalization.


Tzeentch obviously speaks English.

Grey Templar wrote:Indeed, English breaks many of its own rules.

Of course, the main cause of this is that English is a combination of 2 different Language families(Romance and Germanic)

Grammatical chaos is assured when that happens. We basically pronounce things like a Germanic Language, but we spell like a Romance language. and naturally there are exceptions to this generalization.


Tzeentch obviously speaks English.

Very true

Everyone I met IRL insists nurgle is pronounced nar-ghoul

bombboy1252 wrote:Everyone I met IRL insists nurgle is pronounced nar-ghoul

Wrong. It's Ner-Gull.

Coolyo294 wrote:

bombboy1252 wrote:Everyone I met IRL insists nurgle is pronounced nar-ghoul

Wrong. It's Ner-Gull.

Yes I know it is, I was saying THEY think it is, its weird watching them try to say it.

Nurgle is probably supposed to be mixtures of words including nurture and gargle.

So, Nur-gul.

As for English being odd, try hiccaugh. There's no P in it.
Spelling has been optional for most of history, but if the only people who could write were in the church, expect latin-based spellings.

Skinnereal wrote:
As for English being odd, try hiccaugh. There's no P in it.

Sure there is

bombboy1252 wrote:Everyone I met IRL insists nurgle is pronounced nar-ghoul

How? Why? It doesn't make sense.
Nurgle.
Nar?
Ghoul? Wtf man.

forruner_mercy wrote:

bombboy1252 wrote:Everyone I met IRL insists nurgle is pronounced nar-ghoul

How? Why? It doesn't make sense.
Nurgle.
Nar?
Ghoul? Wtf man.

Nar-ghoul, though definitely not right, does sound kinda cool.
See'Tan, however, does not. >.>

see-tan

Lazcannon

Pry-mark

Empra (kidding!)

Metahl bawkes

nur-gul

cat-a-chan

zinch

Yay! A pro-Battle Sisters thread! : D

:: reads a bit :: Why are you all talking about how to pronounce words in a pro-nun thread?

But seriously, I've been pronouncing so many words so wrong. First, when I started gaming, I'd say Chi(n)-murr-ah. Then I got corrected a little and came to, "Kim-urr-ah." Now I know the right way to pronounce it. ^_^

Also, I've been saying, "Ex-arch" instead of, "Ex-ark." for years.

And I've been pronouncing Ecclesiarchy wrong too.

And also Arch-Angel.

And probably loads of other words.

Pouncey wrote:Yay! A pro-Battle Sisters thread! : D

:: reads a bit :: Why are you all talking about how to pronounce words in a pro-nun thread?

But seriously, I've been pronouncing so many words so wrong. First, when I started gaming, I'd say Chi(n)-murr-ah. Then I got corrected a little and came to, "Kim-urr-ah." Now I know the right way to pronounce it. ^_^

Also, I've been saying, "Ex-arch" instead of, "Ex-ark." for years.

And I've been pronouncing Ecclesiarchy wrong too.

And also Arch-Angel.

And probably loads of other words.

Ecclesiarchy confused me for some time as well. but I know C'tan isn't see-tan it's like C'thulhu

bombboy1252 wrote:

Pouncey wrote:Yay! A pro-Battle Sisters thread! : D

:: reads a bit :: Why are you all talking about how to pronounce words in a pro-nun thread?

But seriously, I've been pronouncing so many words so wrong. First, when I started gaming, I'd say Chi(n)-murr-ah. Then I got corrected a little and came to, "Kim-urr-ah." Now I know the right way to pronounce it. ^_^

Also, I've been saying, "Ex-arch" instead of, "Ex-ark." for years.

And I've been pronouncing Ecclesiarchy wrong too.

And also Arch-Angel.

And probably loads of other words.

Ecclesiarchy confused me for some time as well. but I know C'tan isn't see-tan it's like C'thulhu

How do you pronounce Ecclesiarchy?

forruner_mercy wrote:

bombboy1252 wrote:

Pouncey wrote:Yay! A pro-Battle Sisters thread! : D

:: reads a bit :: Why are you all talking about how to pronounce words in a pro-nun thread?

But seriously, I've been pronouncing so many words so wrong. First, when I started gaming, I'd say Chi(n)-murr-ah. Then I got corrected a little and came to, "Kim-urr-ah." Now I know the right way to pronounce it. ^_^

Also, I've been saying, "Ex-arch" instead of, "Ex-ark." for years.

And I've been pronouncing Ecclesiarchy wrong too.

And also Arch-Angel.

And probably loads of other words.

Ecclesiarchy confused me for some time as well. but I know C'tan isn't see-tan it's like C'thulhu

How do you pronounce Ecclesiarchy?

E-kles-e-arc-ey.

bombboy1252 wrote:

Pouncey wrote:Yay! A pro-Battle Sisters thread! : D

:: reads a bit :: Why are you all talking about how to pronounce words in a pro-nun thread?

But seriously, I've been pronouncing so many words so wrong. First, when I started gaming, I'd say Chi(n)-murr-ah. Then I got corrected a little and came to, "Kim-urr-ah." Now I know the right way to pronounce it. ^_^

Also, I've been saying, "Ex-arch" instead of, "Ex-ark." for years.

And I've been pronouncing Ecclesiarchy wrong too.

And also Arch-Angel.

And probably loads of other words.

Ecclesiarchy confused me for some time as well. but I know C'tan isn't see-tan it's like C'thulhu

It was a little easier for me since I started playing DoW: Soulstorm, so I got to hear voice actresses saying it. But I keep using a chee(se) sound instead of a key sound for the last syllable.

Cthulhu is pronounced something along the lines of "kloo-LOO" in the recorded words of H.P. Lovecraft... so, basically, everyone pronounces this word wrong. The h's are all silent, as it the t.

Lovecraft went on to say that this word is actually impossible to pronounce correctly using the human mouth, but that is as close as it could get.

Wow, it's crazy how different the pronounciations can be.

In our group...

Aquila = ay-KWI-leh; looks odd, but that's the way we pronounce it.
Catachan = cah-TAH-chen
Chimera = kye-MEE-ra
C'Tan = seh-TAHN; we used to say kah-TAHN, but that was too close to that 'settlers' game...
Deus ex = DAY-us EX
Exarch = EX-ark
Khorne = SKULLS!!!!!
Primarch = PRY-mark; our friend from India says PRIH-merk... we just give a haughty laugh.
Sanguinius = sahn-GWI-nius
Slaanesh = slah-AH-nesh or, SLAH-nesh
Tzeentch = TSEENCH or just SEENCH
Vox = Vahks

Voxes.... rhymes with bawkses. Also, they're both metal.

Red Comet wrote:Just curious how do you pronounce Sanguinius?

What about Baal? Its not pronounced Ball correct? I always thought it was Bay-l.

Say Baal like ball, except with a Chicago accent. Like baaaall. Not to be mistaken for a New York accent: Bwall

Skinnereal wrote:Nurgle is probably supposed to be mixtures of words including nurture and gargle.

So, Nur-gul.

As for English being odd, try hiccaugh. There's no P in it.
Spelling has been optional for most of history, but if the only people who could write were in the church, expect latin-based spellings.

Nurgle is actually based off the Babylonian god Nergal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nergal

forruner_mercy wrote:As the title says, I woukld like some hlep on how to pronounce things.
Fist is the word "feth".
Another word is Catachan.

I will post new words if I need help.

Catachans are pronounced in the audio book staring Ironhand Straken. I take it from there.

Cat-a-can

Uhlan wrote:
Aquila = ay-KWI-leh; looks odd, but that's the way we pronounce it.

Can't see why. It's like "quick". As in "a quickie".

It's Latin. Though I say it ack-will-a

The Monk wrote:how do i pronounce

supercalafragelisticexpelidosious?

and how do I spell it?

Super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. Simples.

cat-a-kin

That's how I say it. Cat-a-chan sounds dumbs, IMO

How do you pronounce "space marine"? I'm totally at a loss. Like, is it "suh-pess-muh-reen"? Or "speh-shuh-may-are- een"?


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Aquila- UH- KEY- LUH

(I'm not saying these are right, but they are how I've always pronounced them.)

Aquila : A-qwil-luh
Catachan : Cat-a-chan
Baal : Barl
Nurgle: Nur-gul
Slaanesh : Sla-nesh (I would say it this way because saying SLAR-nesh sounds a bit too... heavy(?) and it doesn't flow off the tongue very well)
Tzeentch : Zeentch
Primarch : Pry-mark
C'tan : Cuh-tan (Whether it's correct or not I'd pronounce it this way because See-tan sounds awful)

Skarwael wrote:(I'm not saying these are right, but they are how I've always pronounced them.)

Aquila : A-qwil-luh
Catachan : Cat-a-chan
Baal : Barl
Nurgle: Nur-gul
Slaanesh : Sla-nesh (I would say it this way because saying SLAR-nesh sounds a bit too... heavy(?) and it doesn't flow off the tongue very well)
Tzeentch : Zeentch
Primarch : Pry-mark
C'tan : Cuh-tan (Whether it's correct or not I'd pronounce it this way because See-tan sounds awful)

You got everything except Baal right.


Its either Bale, as in a Bale of hay. This is how the name of the ancient middle eastern diety of the same name is pronounced.

Or it could be Ball, as in a rubber bouncy ball.

Grey Templar wrote:
You got everything except Baal right.


Its either Bale, as in a Bale of hay. This is how the name of the ancient middle eastern diety of the same name is pronounced.

Or it could be Ball, as in a rubber bouncy ball.

If i was to say barl it would probably sound similar to how you'd say ball in an American accent, whereas if I said ball it would sound like borl.