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QC Captions Vol. 223

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cesium133:
Marten: Dude, you don't have to play football just because of your name.

Thrudd:
Marigold: "I'm a Ghast!"
Sven: "No! You are the Ghoul for me!"
Momo: ["Bwaaaaa. I have been hoodwinked! urp..."]

DSL:
MARIGOLD: "Hissssssssssssssssssss"
SVEN: "Green Spirit of Nerd-ery, Depart From This Woman and Vex Her No More! And That Goes For The Little Magenta-headed Robot Girl Too!"

Storel:

--- Quote from: Akima on 06 Jul 2015, 02:43 --- (click to show/hide)The Chinese surnames 徐 and 许, which used to be romanised as Hsu, are Xu in modern pinyin, and are pronounced roughly like "shoe" in Standard Mandarin.
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Huh, two different surnames that were both romanized as Hsu? Do they sound just so slightly different that native English speakers can't hear the difference?

Also, does either of them sound slightly more like "Chu", "Chew", or "Jew"? I grew up in San Francisco and have had Chinese classmates with all three of those spellings, presumably from going through the West Coast equivalent of Ellis Island.

Skewbrow:

--- Quote from: Akima on 06 Jul 2015, 02:43 ---
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 28 Jun 2015, 14:07 ---OK now onto the Caption Game. So who remembers this guy:

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Marten: "Oh, hey Hsu!"
Hsu: "It's actually pronounced 'Shu'."
Marten: "I'm sorry; I put my foot in it."
Hsu: "It's OK; as long as you didn't do it for kicks."

(click to show/hide)The Chinese surnames 徐 and 许, which used to be romanised as Hsu, are Xu in modern pinyin, and are pronounced roughly like "shoe" in Standard Mandarin.
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Marten: "Sorry, Shu."
Hsu: "It's `Shu' actually. Can't you get the tone right?"

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