An Imperial Lexicon...

[monkhmer]

For those of you who play Inquisitor with a more roleplaying angle... is there a good lexicon of Imperial Gothic out there on the web somewhere.  I saw the one on Lexicanum and am not so impressed by it.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/List_of_Terms

Ideally one with a note about what would be appropriate for tech level and security clearance would be great.  For example Joe Adeptus Administratrum wouldn't have a clue about what an Ordo was or anything about Malleus-who or Immaterium-what?

[precinctomega]

Except that the nature of the Imperium is such that any attempted lexicon can only hope to represent the tiniest sub-slice of the use of vocabulary, and will still be wrong.

Imperial language operates on the rule of cool and the principle of might is right.

R.

[MarcoSkoll]

There's nothing that's anywhere near complete. There is a page at the back of one of the last IG codex (don't know about the latest one) that covers a few military terms, but I can't think of a lot else.

After a while, you start to get a vague idea of what's "40k" and what isn't, but there's no set list or hard rules. However, as a very loose guide, if the word is a bit "plain" like Watch, you swap it out with something fancier like Chronometer.