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What models or units do people consistently call by the wrong name or spell improperly that just gets on your nerves?

Personally with Tyranids I am constantly trying to quiet myself down every time I hear:

Termagaunt

and Trevigon.

In writing it doesn't bother me so much, but hearing it out loud is a little peeve of mine.

Do you have any examples from your own armies or experiences?

I will admit to getting a little irked when people refer to Ultramarines as “smurfs”. Mostly the meme-driven knee-jerk Ward hate. A recent batch of bad writing (in a universe full of it) and suddenly the army I’ve been playing for 20+ years is mocked.

It’s a minor irritation, but it’s there.

I have a hard time taking anyone who uses derogatory terms for Space Marines or Space Marine players ("special snowflakes", "green marines" and so on) seriously. It's not as though people are constantly attacking their choice of armies (or, well, it usually isn't at least), so why do they have to be such dicks about it? Yes, I like Space Marines. If you don't, more power to you, but get off that high horse, you're playing 40k too.

I kind of have the same peeve about people answering questions that weren't asked, like posters #2 and #3.

The question was whether there was a mispronunciation that got on your nerves, not whether you like being mocked.

Seriously, get your gak together guys.

Back on topic, I am often slightly irritated when someone just can't seem to get it right, but only mildly. I mostly forget about it seconds later, as not everyone is a language person.

 Skylifter wrote:
I kind of have the same peeve about people answering questions that weren't asked, like posters #2 and #3.

The question was whether there was a mispronunciation that got on your nerves, not whether you like being mocked.

Seriously, get your gak together guys.

Back on topic, I am often slightly irritated when someone just can't seem to get it right, but only mildly. I mostly forget about it seconds later, as not everyone is a language person.

Calling a Space Marine a "special snowflake" is calling it by the wrong name, which is what the OP asked about.

We had a guy for the longest time would say "Knee-crons" instead of "neck-rons"

After a while of the rest of us saying it he picked up and changed the way he pronounced it

All the gaunts.

Also i tend to mix up ravagers raiders and venom some how. Though mostly dont care as it irritates my friend

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
I have a hard time taking anyone who uses derogatory terms for Space Marines or Space Marine players ("special snowflakes", "green marines" and so on) seriously. It's not as though people are constantly attacking their choice of armies (or, well, it usually isn't at least), so why do they have to be such dicks about it? Yes, I like Space Marines. If you don't, more power to you, but get off that high horse, you're playing 40k too.

Yep, and what he meant was mispronunciations, as his examples clearly show. So first you don't pay attention, and then you try to split hairs.

nids in general.

Who can remember all those funky names?!

Emporers Champion

*cringe*

I always find it entertaining when people try and say some of the Tau names.

 fishy bob wrote:
Emporers Champion

*cringe*

I missing something with this one?

 doc1234 wrote:

 fishy bob wrote:
Emporers Champion

*cringe*

I missing something with this one?

Go type the above into google search

@doc1234
It's emperor's not emporor's.

Oh, I thought it was a typo on fishy bob's part rather than the answer. My mistake!

We had a guy who said "Lemon Rust". guess he had an audible auto-correct.

He was kind of an idiot though.


We used to say "Chim- era" instead of "Ki-meera" and laughed at those saying it correctly.... DOH!

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
We had a guy who said "Lemon Rust". guess he had an audible auto-correct.

He was kind of an idiot though.


We used to say "Chim- era" instead of "Ki-meera" and laughed at those saying it correctly.... DOH!

I have a habit of saying (and sometimes writing) lemon russ.

I play Tau and catch myself doing this all the time.

People always ask why I don't give all my battlesuits fancy unique names and backstory...Then I have to explain to them how Tau names work...then they stop asking.

Me and my brother used to say "Tay-yu" for Tau xD Only because we had never heard anyone say the name and we were only tiny kids at the time, so we are forgiven

DKoK. It is Krieg! Not Kreig! Even Dakka does it horribly wrong.

 Iron_Captain wrote:
DKoK. It is Krieg! Not Kreig! Even Dakka does it horribly wrong.

I actually pointed this out in Nuts & Bolts. We'll see if they react.

I remember for some reason pronouncing Ork Trukks as Ork Trooks.

I cannot stand the mispronunciation of Ymgarl.
It's English, people!

It's not as though people are constantly attacking their choice of armies (or, well, it usually isn't at least), so why do they have to be such dicks about it? Yes, I like Space Marines. If you don't, more power to you, but get off that high horse, you're playing 40k too.

Uh... you've seen the "OMG, Sisters of Battles are girlz!! Wai GW Let gurls be soljers!!11one!!eleven!11!" threads, right?

 Psienesis wrote:

It's not as though people are constantly attacking their choice of armies (or, well, it usually isn't at least), so why do they have to be such dicks about it? Yes, I like Space Marines. If you don't, more power to you, but get off that high horse, you're playing 40k too.

Uh... you've seen the "OMG, Sisters of Battles are girlz!! Wai GW Let gurls be soljers!!11one!!eleven!11!" threads, right?

Do they actually exist?

Never seen one.

Using the odd names for the different factions are a form of camarderie. I'll often say smurfs or the pups or even the nuns with guns but I hear just as often about the gi-joes or i used to have a chaos marine army that was amythyst and gold that people called the purple pansies. We all laugh and joke about it because it is never EVER used to be mean. Heck, whener I play, I get ribbed because I'll say, Im shooting at those "critters' over there no matter whether its a bug army or a squad of terminaters, its just a figure of speach.
As I said, not once has anyone used it in a derogatory fashion to insult the person playing the army. They are making light of the army, not the person playing it. That being said, if anyone ever told me that calling their ultramarines 'smurfs" bothered them, I would apologize and make a mental note to not do it to them again.
On internet forums, and it bothers you, your just SOL because people will pounce on that and hound you with it.

I very often catch myself putting double c for acolyte.
The other one which I can never remember is the BA infernus or inferno pistol. BA get one, SoB get the other...

Orcs in 40k

"The Eldars in that squad..."

I don't even try with the various DE squad leader names, I usually just say sergeant or sergeant equivalent.

Power glove puts me off, but that's only because I learned power fist first.

Isn't the Power Glove a NES accessory from, like, 1989?

 Psienesis wrote:
Isn't the Power Glove a NES accessory from, like, 1989?

Yes, but in this context I've seen the term used for the iconic hand weapon mostly known as the power fist. Although it's a rare thing, now.