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I was looking over the models on the GW site, when I began to wonder how to people typically pronounce Daemon? The original Latin pronunciation or the English one? Personally I favor Daymon, simply as it helps differentiate the very unique definitions of Daemons from Demons, as the two are not the same and Demon is typically associated with Judeo-Christian spade-tailed red monsters then beings born of unreality and emotion.
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
'Deemon' for me. Though keep in mind there is the 7 deadly sins that (i think) originated from judeo-christianity of which many of the 40k deamons can be connected to.
warboss wrote: Is there a permanent stickied thread for Chaos players to complain every time someone/anyone gets models or rules besides them? If not, there should be.
I typically use both depending on the circumstance, though I default to a kinda slurred daymen that sounds very similar to deemon so that everyone is happy!
Tigramans wrote: It's just another way to write "demon" in English language, taking its roots from Hellenic origin. Why do people need to turn this into an issue?
It's not die-mon,
It's not day-mon,
You pronounce it like you'd pronounce the word "demon".
/thread
The original latin pronunciation is Daymon. Not demon.
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
Ravenous D wrote: 40K is like a beloved grandparent that is slowly falling into dementia and the rest of the family is in denial about how bad it is.
squidhills wrote: GW is scared of girls. Why do you think they have so much trouble sculpting attractive female models? Because girls have cooties and the staff at GW don't like looking at them for too long because it makes them feel funny in their naughty place.
Ive never heard anyone say thats a dee woo, its always day woo. Daewoo is a car if you dont know
English isn't consistent between spelling and pronunciation, especially when the words are from different languages (Daewoo being a Korean word, Daemon comes from Latin or Greek). You can spell the word encyclopaedia or encyclopedia, however I've mostly heard it pronounced encyclop-ee-dia.
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Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Either is correct.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Orks always ride in single file to hide their strength and numbers.
Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, Gozer the Traveler, and Lord of the Sebouillia
Technically you pronounce aegis as "ay-gis", with the 'g' being a hard sound like in 'guitar'. Looked it up online, once.
"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
You can hear how they pronounce it as well by clicking on the sound icon beside the name.
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Agies Grimm:The "Learn to play, bro" mentality is mostly just a way for someone to try to shame you by implying that their metaphorical nerd-wiener is bigger than yours. Which, ironically, I think nerds do even more vehemently than jocks.
Everything is made up and the points don't matter. 40K or Who's Line is it Anyway?
Auticus wrote: Or in summation: its ok to exploit shoddy points because those are rules and gamers exist to find rules loopholes (they are still "legal"), but if the same force can be composed without structure, it emotionally feels "wrong".
Torga_DW wrote: I think it's supposed to be pronounced 'demon', since thats pretty much what they are. Pronouncing it 'daymon' just doesn't sit right with me.
Innocentia Nihil Probat. 
Son of Dorn 
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