re: Schaeffer's Last Chancers' and Gaunt's Ghosts' Uniforms

[Charon]

I wonder how the "High Gothic" translates...

The word is the same Hochgothisch (= high gothic), and the "language" itself is "latinesque" it is no real latin but borrows many words.

[Psychosplodge]

Some of those sound better to be honest.

[Wolfshade]

Sorry what I meant, is that there are losts of lantin-esque (high gothic words) or words made up, so I was wondering if you had the latin based or a hihg-german version or some such

[Charon]

The latin based version.
Hard to tell exactly when I cant compare the specific words, but in general they use the same words (nowadays).
Sometimes they dont even bother translating at all (space marines), sometimes they get really creative to conserve the meaning ("mon-keigh" resembles monkey its translated "chem-pan-sey" which resembles Schimpanse = chimp) and sometimes they just do some weird word by word translations which never work out.

Some of those sound better to be honest.

While this is somewhat true (but thats up to personal taste) its sometimes a little bit annoying.

I regularly take one or two units of hagashin. The usual response to this is: "wtf is a hagashin?"
You know the standard Dark Eldar melee girls/boys... wyches.