CAO CAO WILL FOREVER BE COW COW

[Hexagoros]

The rest of you are wrong.

[TimThomasCrown]

That's what I called him until I saw the show war of the three kingdoms

[Vacca]

Ya after watching shows my brain immediately goes to Zao Zao now.

[Bob]

thats what i called him as a kid, and thats what he will forever be.

[Nero]

Cow Cow is right pronunciation when you speak english. You should pronounce names in the language that you talk.

Afterall different kinds of Chinese pronounce his name differently. German wikipedia shows it:

Cáo Cāo (chinesisch 曹操, Pinyin Cáo Cāo, IPA (hochchinesisch) [ʦʰɑo̯˧˥ ʦʰɑo˥], W.-G. Ts'ao Ts'ao, Jyutping Cou4 Cou1,

[Vacca]

Originally posted by WitchingSnake:

Cow Cow is right pronunciation when you speak english. You should pronounce names in the language that you talk.

Um... fairly sure that's actually one of the things you don't do. You can't just pronounce names like, I dunno, "Deveraux", in English. It's outright murder. It might work for some, but you should always strive to pronounce people's names in their language, not yours.

[Nero]

Originally posted by Vacca:

Originally posted by WitchingSnake:

Cow Cow is right pronunciation when you speak english. You should pronounce names in the language that you talk.

Um... fairly sure that's actually one of the things you don't do. You can't just pronounce names like, I dunno, "Deveraux", in English. It's outright murder. It might work for some, but you should always strive to pronounce people's names in their language, not yours.

Hehe its funny that you take a french name because I as a Swiss can garantee you the French are incapable of pronouncing anything right that isn't french.

[Happy Gilmor]

yup

[Chocolate Goose]

Cow Pee <3

[MarioFanaticXV]

Originally posted by Vacca:

Originally posted by WitchingSnake:

Cow Cow is right pronunciation when you speak english. You should pronounce names in the language that you talk.

Um... fairly sure that's actually one of the things you don't do. You can't just pronounce names like, I dunno, "Deveraux", in English. It's outright murder. It might work for some, but you should always strive to pronounce people's names in their language, not yours.

What, you mean you don't pronounce it "dee-vee-rocks"?

[Straybow]

Lu Bu is much more insidious.

[Hexagoros]

Originally posted by MarioFanaticXV:

Originally posted by Vacca:

Um... fairly sure that's actually one of the things you don't do. You can't just pronounce names like, I dunno, "Deveraux", in English. It's outright murder. It might work for some, but you should always strive to pronounce people's names in their language, not yours.

What, you mean you don't pronounce it "dee-vee-rocks"?

Dude, it's de-vuh-rawcks.

[Poljanan]

Originally posted by Lysimarkos of Ermor:

Lu Bu is much more insidious.

This. When I knew that his name is supposed to be pronounced as LYU PUH, the name lost all sense of intimidation. It just sounded silly. I'll stick to LOO BOO. Besides, I'm not going to be pronouncing that name irl anyway.

[dante3hits]

Originally posted by Poljanan:

Originally posted by Lysimarkos of Ermor:

Lu Bu is much more insidious.

This. When I knew that his name is supposed to be pronounced as LYU PUH, the name lost all sense of intimidation. It just sounded silly. I'll stick to LOO BOO. Besides, I'm not going to be pronouncing that name irl anyway.

Same here. Will for ever be LOO BOO. I grew up playing Dynasty Warriors damn-it, and that's how I'm ALWAYS going to pronounce them.

[Darth Alpharius]

sounds more like Caw Caw and Caw Pie

[planescaped]

As someone who has read the book multiple times, read Chin Ping Mei, Water Margin and Journey to the West, learned chinese (then forgot it :P)...

...I still say cow cow in my head sometimes.

Though it sounds weirder to me than tsao tsao does now. XD