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English is weird
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Akima on 10 Aug 2015, 02:34 ---
--- Quote from: Kugai on 07 Aug 2015, 15:16 ---*Cringes at TV as people who should know better pronounce Masamune as Massarmane*
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Or Beijing as Beige-ing.
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1. How is that pronounced, out of interest? Never heard it said any other way.
2. Is there not an argument that if you're speaking English, then a city should be pronounced in an English accent? The majority of people tend to say 'Paris' rather than 'Pareeee,' and many other locations have different spellings in their own language, never mind pronunciations.
Akima:
Bay-jing. Bay as in Baywatch. Jing as in jingle-bells. Simple as that; when speaking English there is no need to worry about getting the tones right.
The soft "French-style" J is as foreign to Chinese as it is to English. I quite take the point that English-speakers say Pariss not Paree, and Mewnick not Moonshen, but the correct pronunciation of Beijing is truer to normal English pronunciation of the letters of the romanisation than the incorrect one is.
Thrillho:
Those are two separate discussions in fairness. I didn't realise Beijing had a hard 'j', and will take that on board from this point forward.
pwhodges:
Even the BBC occasionally lets a Beige-ing slip through, I'm sorry to say. Standards aren't what they were, mumble mumble...
LeeC:
Saw this, thought of this thread.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipkw6EEYTKY
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