New Ciaphas Novel: $24.99?

[HellBane]

Someone tell me that's a typo. I'm not paying a codexs' cost for a novel, no matter how much I like Ciaphas.

[Mal]

amazon is your friend....

[DarkLink]

You do realize that $25 isn't an uncommon price for a brand new hardcover, right? Or even for paperbacks, if they're long enough.

Not to say that it's usually a good deal. Unlike the Way of Kings (http://www.amazon.com/Way-Kings-Stormlight-Archive/dp/0765326353). I bought that brand new for $30 and it was worth every penny. Literally. I mean, there had to be like $20 of paper in that book, it's so big. Luckily it's also extremely good, though it starts out a little slow.

[HellBane]

Good call. I was thinking that was the paperback price.

[Brass Scorpion]

The $24.99 price was an immediate giveaway that the book is hardback. It's the same price point used for other BL hardbacks like Sabbat Worlds, Blood Pact and Titanicus.

Now everyone on this side of the pond say it correctly from now on, Kī-'-ə-fəs, NOT Sī-'-ə-fəs. The alliteration is deliberate.

[Mal]

The $24.99 price was an immediate giveaway that the book is hardback. It's the same price point used for other BL hardbacks like Sabbat Worlds, Blood Pact and Titanicus.

Now everyone on this side of the pond say it correctly from now on, Kī-'-ə-fəs, NOT Sī-'-ə-fəs. The alliteration is deliberate.

I take it you got the Hero of the Imperium omnibus also?

[Brass Scorpion]

I take it you got the Hero of the Imperium omnibus also?Nope, nor have I read hardly any of the BL novels and none of the couple I have read featured Cain. What I have done for all my life is read, period, and I have an English degree. Ciaphas is an ancient name like many names borrowed by GW for their background material and the pronunciation is well established. In ancient languages the letter "C" will always be a hard C anyway. Only in the US do people pronounce Celtic as "Seltic". I'm also still working on getting people in the US to say "ar-bi-ˈtās" instead of "ar- ˈbīt". It's GW faux Latin for "arbiter" or "arbitrator", i.e. judges, and like in Adeptus Astartes you pronounce the e in the last syllable.

[Mal]

Heh no need to edcuate me my friend, im from the limey side of the pond ;)

I only asked the question because sandy mitchel made a point of bringing it up in the commentary of the book, apparently many people kept asking for the correct prounciation.

[Galadren]

Only in the US do people pronounce Celtic as "Seltic".

Being from the US, I have only ever heard one person do that when not referring to the basketball team...ironically it was my High School English teacher who taught English Lit. Personally I think anyone who would is a moron.

[Melissia]

I've only ever heard brits pronounce it "seltic".

[fuzzbuket]

y. Only in the US do people pronounce Celtic as "Seltic".


a) celtic : picts a bunch of hairy people with clubs
b) celtic (sel-tic- wee- mon) a grop of FOOTBALL players who get paid too much the celtic community lives in glasge and is a bunch of hairy people with knives :P (<- no offence to any celtic fans)

[miteyheroes]

Only in the US do people pronounce Celtic as "Seltic".

The Scottish football team is pronounced like that as well.

But yes, the New Cain book is a big hardcover. It's good fun, I got it at UK Games Day...

[Mal]

I hear brits prounance it 'seltic' all the time when talking about the football team... but any other circumstance its always prounanced 'Keltic'

[DarkLink]

Being from west coast America, I think most people here use Seltic rather than Keltic. Mainly because we don't know nothin' 'bout the various old European cultures. We only know about the basketball team.