jkfkls;jfas!!

[gweenmeanie]

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[and_you_lose]

How the hell do people try to pronounce your name? Tuhsang?!?! At least they don't try to Mexican twist your name.
Oh man. Whenever I see it spelled Aerith, I say it in my mind and kind of mouth it and then I feel horrible. I don't want a lithp. *shudder*

[gweenmeanie]

Yes. Yes, they do pronounce it like that. Fuckers.

[and_you_lose]

You better be running them over with your car afterward.

[anonymous]

Tseng is like -- Betsy sings -- Tseng, no? Or -- they -- Tseng?

[gweenmeanie]

No, it's not, which is why I said Wade-Giles is retarded. It's more like "Zen", actually--"Z" as in "zap", "en" as in "kitten" (but not as in "hen"). Which is why the Pin-Yin romanization "Zeng" is much more accurate, and why it makes no sense that "Tson" came from "Tseng" or vice versa.

[anonymous]

Thank you for explaining!

/me runs off to happy land, where everyone speaks Spanish and there are no letters that are only sometimes without sound or letters that sound like something else entirely

[izzyferret]

At least you're not Greek. =\ My mom's last name is Psaledas. (sah-lee-duhs.) We've heard everything from "puh-slay-deez" to "puh-sale-duhs". The former seems to pretty popular actually. o_o

Last names sucks, let's stop using last names and names at all and start giving people numbers.

[and_you_lose]

Why are people so retarded that they would pronounce what seems to be an obviously non-pronounced letter? How do they get that dumb?

[akurei_enjeru]

Geez if you think that's retarded, my last name is Fiano. I have to keep telling people you say it just like piano only with a "F" and they STILL get it wrong. :P

[and_you_lose]

How else would you pronounce it? I hope after they say it incorrectly you slash at them with your sword of justice.

[windeve]

at least your last name isn't worst as mine. like anyone knows how to pronounce a name starting with "tz"

[silver_megami]

ahah, I feel you. my last name's Douangkesone... >__< I get pinned with "donkey-kong" because they're all too stupid to even ask how it's pronounced.

[gweenmeanie]

DONKEY KONG XDDDDD

...H-how's it really pronounced :D()()()

[silver_megami]

Something like Doo-ong-ka-sone. Say it fast and I think it'll work. ^___^

[artsangel]

Oddly enough, when I see a printed name, I don't even try to pronounce it, it sort of exists in my brain-space as a set of letters with no sound. Thus I had never actually thought of how Tseng would be pronounced.

But, gosh darn it, now you've got me trying to figure it out! :@