Edit 2/2025:
I added some lines and *changed the Title*
which (omg, *cringe*) might have been a BIGGIE mistake, once the search engines and Blogspot catch on, but (for now) it still lands on this entry with the old title. Yay. (I hope)
And Google does not even confirm or deny this website even exists; An obscure talking-dirty website I typed on five years ago still remembers this place, though.(About Lily Feng, who was a vampire in my game, or a high-powered business-woman, or both, IDK, it's been over five years, hmm)
In other words, my site doesn't rate google searches, but other sites do.
A suggestion site I don't use, but I should:
https://indigomarketingagency.com/11-tricks-to-get-your-blog-posts-to-show-up-in-google-searches/
I could have sworn one of those came out as "Sing", except I erased that entry
(?ing a ?ong) Xi sells ?eaxells by the ?eaxore
OK wait, I might have been concentrating on one particular guy
But that sort of implies Xi and Xing are pronounced differently.
I'll go look. Nope, definitely Sh-sound.
I need the "s" sound or my life will be incomplete.
This vague and bombastic subject is milked to the max, but I'm getting closer.
https://www.omeidachinese.com/chinese-pronunciation-c-q-r-x-z/ is nice, but no "s"
Lessee, we've done q and x...
If you (and I'm speaking of another language) put this question to a native speaker, especially one with an average education, they have no frame of reference and won't know what you're on about.
Cantonese vs Mandarin vs Pinyin, they get bored after the first couple sentences and leave... I'm not bringing this up at parties any time soon, But my train of thought needs to know.
Cantonese vs Mandarin vs Pinyin, they get bored after the first couple sentences and leave... I'm not bringing this up at parties any time soon, But my train of thought needs to know.
The original train has to do with Chinese Demons, and since most websites are bombastic, they skirt the subject.
Demons (Demon women anyway) wear heavier eye makeup.
Oh, and flowing robes...
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(*sshole) |
(ignore the boor just previous)
it sounds more like "ts" but it's as close as I've gotten so far (no thanks to the bombastic guy)
xi cells cixells by the cixore (This bad spelling is getting closer)
But it's still not right (tsay it, don't tspray it)
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| wtf So "s" looks like pointy-nose? |
I have no idea wtf this guy just said, and I read it twice, at least:
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| West is sibian WHUT?? |
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| Wikipedia, making you look stewpid for decades But this entry deserves an award, most opaque |
I used to think I could play the piano if I tried, and I gave that up too.
Apparently there are nine english fricatives, and a "Fricative" is your tongue or your lips playing with your teeth.
That fancy looking symbol is so rare only mathematicians and maybe greek students would know it, but stripping away the pretentious folderol,
it's the "TH" in "Through" or in "Thought" which are already puffed-up versions of ordinary words.
WE commoners, plebeians and unwashed, (and maybe these guys) would prolly say "Thru" and "Thot," and be castigated by pedants everywhere.
cussing in code (anything in IPA-code) never really caught on, I suppose (in my blissful ignorance)
It would take me ten years to type "The cat in the hat" in IPA, but I wanted to.
Does that count?
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| https://tophonetics.com/ |
The lowest-common-denominator of all these terms is that they make stuff unnecessarily complicated to differentiate the initiated from the neophytes.
Rough=ruff
though=thoe
bough=bow
So, Mr. AI genius, how do you pronounce "ough" in a word?
I'm getting called from cranky listeners in my head about "bow":
it rhymes with "now" which rhymes with "Bough"
Except no one except the pretentious say "Bough", they use "Branch" or tree-top" instead.
"when the bough breaks" could just as well be "when the branch cracks", it has no effect on the meter or the rhyme of the song.
"when the bough breaks" could just as well be "when the branch cracks", it has no effect on the meter or the rhyme of the song.
The republicans are missing out on a tempest in a teapot: spelling in schools.
Woke (simplified) vs archaic (conservative)
At some point I wished to blurt an uneducated rant That
Since Chinese does not use the european-etc alphabet
And since no one anywhere understands IPA spelling,
What would it take for People to spell Chinese (in english characters)
The way it sounds?
Qing ching
Xing Shing
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What (this is not part of the rant) does the teleprompter look like in Boise or in Houston when they mention "Xi Jinping"?
(continuing to rant) Who died and made Q from Ch, what planet does that even make any sense? (cleverly spell "sense" in pretend-chinese but I never found "S"
so nevermind)
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| It's like I'm talking greek. WHAT LETTER is 'S' IN CHINESE? (It's prolly just "s" but why don't they just say that??) |
"si" is "think,"
"song" is "send" (mind-blowing, geez)
I si that I understand, kind of.
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| No "si" here. |
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| "Suh" (kind of) is "Si", yeah ok but Why didn't the translator just say that?? |
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| Leaky window, with bucket underneath |
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| "oh, you mean THAT "think", OK" |
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An ad for an article about your brain doesn't say much of anything, except maybe "whatever you're doing, stop it, you'll ruin your brain"
But it's the misleading picture that irritates me.
Sandra Oh played a doctor on TV so I guess they figured it would attract flies better than the old-guy in the actual article.
