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I love the Power Glove. It's so bad.

I have a habit of referring to some of the Greater Daemons by nicknames; such as "Fatty" for the GuO, "Big Bird" for the LoC, and "Butthirster" for the Bloodthirster. xD

I've met some people who pronounce Tyranids as Tie-ran-ids.

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

I believe the technical pronunciation is "yergen-hergen genestealers". At least that's I always called them when my friend used them.

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.

Nevelon wrote: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 general annoyance of all "Kool to say it rong" mentality and stupid nicknames.
Like Smurfs, Space Puppies and the abbreviation " 'dex "... and especially " 'dexes ". Seriously - try putting it in a sentence and see how awkward it sounds to deliberately shorten that word for "coolness". It actually takes just as long to say because of the awkward syncopation, and sounds like you had a conniption half way through

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

Yes, I'm ashamed to say I learned this the wrong way as a kid, and even now have to catch and stop myself saying "Shim-era" most of the time (I'm 36yrs old - it's a very persistent issue). Luckily I never laughed at someone saying it correctly, but I do know the shame of that type of mistake.

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
Do they actually exist?

Never seen one.

It's not necessarily threads explicitly about them being soldiers. But sometimes when SoB or, more commonly, female IG are discussed, somebody will come in and disapprove of the idea of female soldiers in 40K.

 Troike wrote:

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
Do they actually exist?

Never seen one.

It's not necessarily threads explicitly about them being soldiers. But sometimes when SoB or, more commonly, female IG are discussed, somebody will come in and disapprove of the idea of female soldiers in 40K.

Pfah. Ludicrous. 40K-universe women have as much right to kick ass as anyone else. They should not be allowed more asskicking than they're due just as some twisted 'compensation' (Which is a surprisingly common and frustrating error) but neither should they restricted from it.

Asskicking for the people!

 dementedwombat wrote:

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

I believe the technical pronunciation is "yergen-hergen genestealers". At least that's I always called them when my friend used them.

feth this post. I just lolled and got ALOT of dirty looks.


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women should be allowed just as much right to defend their country as any man. HOWEVER, there IS a difference between the male and female psyche.
besides the obvious muscle-to-fat difference (women generally have more muscle then fat but still GENERALLY less then men).
also, women are much more emotionally in-tuned, my coach was in afghan and he talks to me about it, he has seen six people die. also, women (I'l say again because I couldn't be bothered with hate) GENERALLY have looser morals then men. women should be allowed in the military, but there are differences that must be acknowledged.

also, "storn-guard veterans"
"empyreal guard"
and I cant pronounce TH, comes out as F.

Over in the WHFB side of the forum, a guy looking to start Ogre Kingdoms posted a thread titled "Starting with Orges".

Now that could be interpreted two ways. Either he was looking to start an army of oranges or he was looking for advice on how to start an orgy.

I've always gotten a kick out of "Ymgarl" pronunciations.
Gym girls
Young girls
Yummy girls

Ok none of those are appropriate, but whatever! I do however get annoyed at the difference between Hive and Tyrant guard... it's pretty simple in my mind. If they're around a Tyrant, they're Tyrant guard. If not, they're Hive.

Iv been pronouncing it yam grills.

I just learned how to correctly pronounce Termagant.

Also, the biggest one people make is Synapse. There are two correct pronounciations: Sin-apse and Sie-napse.

How were people pronouncing it wrong? Were they calling it Snaps or something?

I just learned how to correctly pronounce Termagant.

Oh, that's easy! It's "xeno gribbly".

 jifel wrote:
I've always gotten a kick out of "Ymgarl" pronunciations.
Gym girls
Young girls
Yummy girls

Ok none of those are appropriate, but whatever! I do however get annoyed at the difference between Hive and Tyrant guard... it's pretty simple in my mind. If they're around a Tyrant, they're Tyrant guard. If not, they're Hive.

I'm a girl.

Also, it's Tie ra Nids.

I play against alot of IG. Frankly I can't tell all the artillery and tanks apart. Look like tanks to me. Anyways I say Lemon Russ, Basilist and Manacore. All do to my white trash genetics. All this while pointing to the wrong models. My friends hate me....

 dementedwombat wrote:

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

I believe the technical pronunciation is "yergen-hergen genestealers". At least that's I always called them when my friend used them.

PERFECT! BJORK!

"Turrent" always annoys me. There's no 'n' in turret!

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

I still say "Chim-era".

Oh, another thing the same guy used to say was "Adeptus Allbrites". Followed by stifled guffaws all around.

Luckily he was a bit hard of hearing (from no ear protection at a factory metal stamping job) so he never heard us chuckling and said his idiotic things VERY loudly.

He used to "stage whisper" during 2nd edition to his partner (we played a lot of team games) "I've got two nullifies" during the ever so secretive Psychic Phase. Basically a poker game in the middle of each turn.

The best though was during a game of DnD when the party came upon another armed group on the road. One of them rode towards us and called "Parlay?" Some one asked what he'd said and this guy yells "They're looking for someone named "Parlay!"

many tears of laughter were shed that evening.

On that subject, is it:

Arbites - Arr-bites or Ar-bih-tez (or Ar-bih-teyz).

Adeptus Arby's. Got it.

"Fire the Horseysauce Launcher!"

I pronounce it "Arrr-bites".

 curran12 wrote:
Adeptus Arby's. Got it.

Arby 'n' the Chief?

Davor wrote:


Also, it's Tie ra Nids.

Teer-ah-nids

I tell ya one thing always gets me blood goin.

When those say Orkz like Orcs! We'z not Orcs ya idiots stop sayin Orkz like Orcs and say it like Orkz!

Its annoys me when people say chimera wrong.
They have heard it pronounced correctly thousands of times. the only reason I can imagine they say it wrong now is to be annoying.

 Psienesis wrote:
I love the Power Glove. It's so bad.

Its just so gnarly and fresh, right?

 karlosovic wrote:
I have a general annoyance of all "Kool to say it rong" mentality and stupid nicknames.
Like Smurfs, Space Puppies and the abbreviation " 'dex "... and especially " 'dexes ". Seriously - try putting it in a sentence and see how awkward it sounds to deliberately shorten that word for "coolness". It actually takes just as long to say because of the awkward syncopation, and sounds like you had a conniption half way through

While we're on that, I am totally that guy who makes sure people knows the proper plural of "codex" is "codices" and not "codexes." Yay American education system!

I admit I'm guilty of a lot of the nicknames of all armies thing, but at least I apply it evenly as I constantly mock my own army. I call my Dark Angels the "Dork Angels" or "Watermelon Marines" quite frequently.

My personal favorite is calling Tyranid "the Zerg" around our one player in the group that simply does not have a sense of humor.

I've also personally witnessed several discussions about the proper way to say "Tzeentch." Clearly, phoenetically, it's pronounced, "oh-BAH-ma."

I don't mind when people mispronounce things on accident or out of a lack of knowledge. (there are a lot of different types of Tyranids and it can get confusing for those that don't play them...)

However, it does get under my skin when people intentionally call units derogatory terms. For example:

Hellturkey - No it's a Heldrake (note the 1 L)
Smurfs - No. They are Ultramarines. Not Ultrasmurfs, Smurfs, Blueberries or whatever else.

I actually don't like these terms for these units because it is an attempt to devalue the unit referred to. I love the fluff around around 40k and I would even go so far as to say I respect it. *shrug*

guy who introduced me to 40k
behemoth- be-moth
kraken- kraken
leviathan- leav- ifan.

It's not the dumb nickname itself that annoys me, but it's a symptom of the misplaced smugness exhibited by many of the people doing it - like "yeh that's right, hello Laaaydies"".

Now, I know Warhammer is not exactly the most manly and cool hobby to begin with; but there's having an interest in something a bit nerdy, and then there's behaving like the type of guy who can't help himself but be awkward in public

I find it a bit annoying how my Ork playing friend cant say Battlewagon.. He always, Every single time, Calls it Battleworgen. I keep telling him that worgen is a race in WoW and has nothing to do with Warhammer 40k and that it is Battlewagon, But he just keeps calling it Battleworgen..