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According to the BBC website, he is a "shee."
Xi Jinping: SHEE jin PING
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2012/11/how_to_say_chinese_leaders.shtml
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)NOW I DON'T KNOW! I THOUGHT I DID!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)WE'RE TRYING TO GET SOME SLEEP UP HERE!!!!!!
Rex
(65,616 posts)I BETTER GET MY ASS UPSTAIRS AND IN BED!
*STOMP*
*STOMP*
*STOMP*
SHORT FLIGHT OF STAIRS!!!!
GOODNIGHT!!!
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)or maybe a movie called Halloween. "You can't kill the bogeyman."
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)Let's ask Patti Smith.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)What does "WE ARE LEGION," mean?
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)or is it spelled GOTCHA?
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)IS I.T. SPELLED PREYING ONLINE, I FOUND THIS 9/11 THEORY:
Revelation 9:11New International Version (NIV)
11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer)[git ready! It's comey.]
KT2000
(20,591 posts)diabeticman
(3,121 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)Which is very close to the "sh" in English. If you put your tongue in the position for a "y" as in yes and force air through it will sound much like the "sh" but further back. So the answer to the poster's question is, "Yes, that's how we say it when anglicized."
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Chinese language characters are far different than English letters.
rock
(13,218 posts)That is "sh" as in English "shoe" and "ch" as in German "ich". So they need to distinguish both sounds in the orthography.
Hekate
(90,865 posts)The BBC probably checked.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)With the advent of the Bulletin board system, or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behavior, and is considered very rude. As a result, netiquette generally discourages the use of all caps when posting messages online. While all caps can be used as an alternative to rich-text "bolding" for a single word or phrase, to express emphasis, repeated use of all caps can be considered "shouting" or irritating. Its equivalence to shouting traces back to 1984 and traces back to printed typography usage of all capitals to mean shouting. Such poor netiquette has led to a number of employees being laid off for this particular reason.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Response to Electric Monk (Reply #9)
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betsuni
(25,687 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...only her hairdresser knows for sure.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Long E.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)READ THIS NEWS ARTICLE:
NSA: Car failed to stop before police opened fire
The NSA released a statement Monday afternoon saying the driver of the (stolen) sport utility vehicle, Hall, disobeyed instructions from an NSA police officer and failed to stop shortly before 9 a.m. Authorities deployed barriers at the gate as the SUV accelerated toward an NSA police vehicle blocking the road.
"It's overwhelming to me. It's an eye-opener, first of all, because that could have been anybody being in a situation like that, not to say that just anybody would steal a car, but we could be in a bad situation and not in a good head-space," Leonard said. "I'm sure that they didn't leave their house knowing that they wouldn't come home that day or that that would be the end."
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/police-investigating-reports-of-shooting-crash-at-fort-meade/32085082
Rex
(65,616 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Think I can still get a head?
Call up the bowling alley and ask if they have twelve pound balls.
Rex
(65,616 posts)One looks at the other and says "This taste funny to you?"
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Warpy
(111,383 posts)"Sh" is pronounced like the "sh" in "shirt."
The difference is subtle but it's one that's apparent in that language.
Chellee
(2,102 posts)Confession - I don't hear a difference between the 'sh' in wish and the 'sh' in shirt.
Is it the length of time you hold the sound?
Hekate
(90,865 posts)....a system of writing that is not based on an alphabet or syllabary. Even though the writing system was modernized a couple of decades ago and the Chinese informed the West of their preferred spellings (which is how we got Beijing from Peking) it still remains a difficult language for Westerners to learn.
My undergrad major was Asian History, but I graduated in 1971, so all of the place-names I learned are now difficult for me to recognize, not to mention the important historical persons.
All of which is a kind of long way of saying: I can't tell the diff between "sh" -- "sh" -- and "Xi" either!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Sorry, couldn't resist.
Warpy
(111,383 posts)and the second is more toward the sides.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)I've never thought about it like that before.
Warpy
(111,383 posts)"Q" is the tch in "itch." "Ch" is like "church." Not quite as subtle but a difference they pick up quickly.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)I pronounce 'wish' with my tongue slightly more out to the sides, I think, and 'shirt' with it a little more 'domed' in the middle. That may be influenced by the shape of my mouth for the vowel sound, though; though it seems the same, for ''wish' and 'shit' with the same vowel sound.
Maybe it's an American thing? I'm British.
BainsBane
(53,093 posts)Mandarin is tonal. So it's not possible to write an entirely phonetic pronunciation in English since we don't have a way to convey changes in tone.
Tanuki
(14,924 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Who?
Yes, sir, Hu.
That's what I wanna know, who?
It's Hu.....
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)languages in terms of sounds and spellings. Not meanings though.
I blame that land bridge migration thingy.
Xel Ha, Chichinizta, Xcaret, etc.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Everyone has been looking inside the pyramids, but nobody's been looking UNDER them!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)my daughter's last name, given to all children at the orphanage she came from, is Xi. All girls got the same first name - Li - as well. It was the middle name that distinguished them. My daughter's Chinese name is Xi Li Liang. According to her Chinese teacher it is pronounced She Lee Lee Ang.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)My Mandarin classes were a long time ago