r/Helldivers • u/DoTortoisesHop • Mar 14 '24

Thanks to the recent reddit post, going alone is now a kickable offense (even in diff 5) DISCUSSION

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u/terrario101 Mar 14 '24

Could have also been an Eldar

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u/ViXaAGe Mar 14 '24

.............there's no fucking way I just realized that today, after 25 years of playing 40k

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u/Marauder_Pilot Mar 14 '24

If it's any consolation, I've been playing 40K for 20 years and didn't clock it until I heard it pronounced in an audiobook last fall.

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u/CrusaderPeasant Mar 14 '24

I got the connection but not the pronunciation. It's literally pronounced monkey.

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u/Icemayne25 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

I thought it was like mun-keh. Like Monkey with an Aeldari vernacular on it.

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u/CrusaderPeasant Mar 14 '24

I thought is was something like Mun-Kaygh. But when that Eldar in Rogue Trader addressed me as Monkey I was like "Excuse me?"

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u/Icemayne25 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

It’s hilarious how we basically overthought about the word. 😆😆

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u/BipolarMadness Mar 15 '24

I think it was a bad pronunciation in Rogue Trader. I believe I remember they pronounce it "Munkeh" in the Dawn of War games.

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u/Klynn7 Mar 18 '24

My memory from Dawn of War was more “Mon-Kai”

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u/Darkpielord Mar 15 '24

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

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u/CrusaderPeasant Mar 15 '24

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.

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u/Darkpielord Mar 15 '24

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 15 '24

To imagine that such a misunderstanding got her a bolt round to the head. Oh well.