Fun with phonetics!

[bredkooler]

How do you pronounce Zoanthrope? I say Zo-An-Throw-p. How about termagaunt? Is it Term-uh-gaw-nt or Term-uh-g-ant? Haruspex? Exocrine? That new forgeworld dude that starts with dimacca something? How do you all speak these names?

[tylertt]

Zoan - thrope.

Zoan rhymes with loan.

Thrope rhymes with rope.

[WestRider]

Zoanthrope is descended from Greek. I'm not sure the exact words, but it's a combo of Zoo-something and Anthro-something, animal and man. So the 'o' and 'a' are pronounced separately. Zo-an-thrope.

EDIT: Also, "termagaunts" aren't actually a thing. There are Termagants, Hormagaunts, and Gargoyles, all of which are referred to collectively as Gaunts by the current Dex.

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I always call my zoanthropes "zone"-thropes. Rolls off the tongue slightly easier even if less correct imo. Zo-an-thrope. I figure zo-an is close enough to zone.

Termagaunt would be term-uh-gaw-nt in my book.

[forteh]

The new fw bug is a Die-Mack-Er-On for me, the rest of the pronunciations are as others have said. Haruspex is Ha-Roo-Specks but with the Roo the same short length as the Ha.

[gigasnail]

how hard is 'gribbly' to pronounce? what's wrong with you people!

[sn0zcumb3r]

Zo-an-thrope. It is indeed Greek, zo meaning animal and anthropos meaning human. So part human part animal. Like Kenneth Farried.

Haruspex would be Ha-roo-specks though I have never called anything other than Hentaispex or Hentai monster

[wheresthebathroom]

@giga I'm squarely in the gribbly corner.  And I'm always correcting people when they call my gribbles "he" they are not he's. They are she's. I am still undecided as to whether or not the tyranno should be the male or if they are just all females. I've also had the idea that the gants are the males and the big bugs are all females. But I'm not really a fluff guy, they're just girls. 

[eskimo]

Ter-ma-gant
Not Gaunt. But i call them Gaunts too

Hore-ma-gaunt.

Ter-ran-o-fex. But should be TI-rano.

Zone-thrope for me too.

Parasite of Mortex because i always forget it was Mortrex.

I also call Shrikes, Shreeks/ Shrieks

[wheresthebathroom]

That's shreeky deeky

[Inquisitor Stingray]

Apr 6, 2014 21:54:51 GMT wheresthebathroom said:

@giga I'm squarely in the gribbly corner.  And I'm always correcting people when they call my gribbles "he" they are not he's. They are she's. I am still undecided as to whether or not the tyranno should be the male or if they are just all females. I've also had the idea that the gants are the males and the big bugs are all females. But I'm not really a fluff guy, they're just girls. 

I think fluffwise they are all asexual or at least of a gender not easily distinguished. I agree, however, most of my Tyranids are refered to as she. Kind of like you refer to boats and spaceships as female as well. The exception imo being the Hive Tyrant and arguably the Tyrannofex. Doesn't help that a lot of Tyranids are named after historial or mythological entities of female origin (Crone, Harpy, Termagant, Harridan). It's only a matter of time before we're dealing with a Tyrand Hag and a Norn Biatch. Pacific Rim beat us to the Slattern.

I really dislike pronouncing Venomthrope. Removing the m makes it much easier and sound less goofy. I pronounce Zoanthopes like I would Malanthrope, but with Zo- instead.

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Yeah from a fluff perspective sex organs on all but several creatures is a waste of biomass(in science's understanding of biological sex, sexually dimorphic species, asexual species, and the like). And because of my perceived importance of sex organs/reproduction(it's almost the only mechanism evolution actually cares about) I have a hard time imagining too many creatures not built into hive ships have them. Why waste biomass defending sex organs at all when you can spawn safely from afar. Asexual isn't even totally right as far as I can tell since that sort of implies from a biological standpoint that they still reproduce asexually which most of the creatures are spawned by organisms that seem at first glance completely different.

Like the tervigon would be in my mind more akin to an organism ejaculating(since sperm are living cells). But I do think the fluff establishes tervigons as birther beasts so my vantage is drenched in personal opinions/bias and struggling to force my academic background in biology on a fantasy world. 

Heck most tyranids could be the posterchildren for non-gendered pronouns. They ain't got time for that. 

[beeva]

Maybe its just me, but I call my Zoanthrope Jeff.

[Hunger]

Human is pronounced 'food'. Tau and Eldar are also pronounced 'food'.

Space Marines are 'food in a shell', like an oyster.

Daemons are 'not food', and are easily recognised as such.

Necrons are pronounced 'disappointment'. They look like food, move like food and defend themselves like food, but after all the effort has been put in they turn out to be full of wires. Then they stand up again.

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I guess that(^) makes ork planets farms.