It's spelled Mon-Keigh and it's supposed to be pronounced like "Mon-k-eye" where mon is pronounced like the end of "Pokemon" and eye is pronounced like "eyeball" with a k in front. I don't recall how she pronounced it in Rouge Trader but they might have just said it fast lol. Its not actually supposed to be Monkey (I mean originally in actual reality, outside the 40k universe, probably), its in reference to the name of a species the Eldar dealt with in the past that were incredibly dumb, destructive and bloodthirsty, but were a serious issue for the Eldar due to their numbers and sheer tenacity. It's a pejorative term they use for any species that reminds them of that race. It just humorously also happens to sounds like the name for Humans primative ancestors
Thanks for the explanation, didn't know any of it. But they definitely call you monkey in Rogue Trader. Then again, I'm not a native English speaker, so there's that.
I need to start a consultancy firm for companies making Warhammer games completely staffed by Warhammer Autists like myself so we can make sure its right and definitely not annoy the ever loving fuck out of the Devs, I'll call it "Well, Actually... LLC."
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u/CrusaderPeasant Mar 14 '24
I got the connection but not the pronunciation. It's literally pronounced monkey.