Imaging singing Happy Birthday to her

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nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info · 26 pts · 2y (19 replies)

you in Chinese is not pronounced like "you" in English. totally different vowel sound

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (18 replies)

So how's it pronounced?

random_character_a@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"You", but in Chinese.

lugal@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 2y

Thanks for clarification!

hddsx@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 2y (12 replies)

Kind of like yo

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (11 replies)

So their name is Yo-yo?

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hddsx@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Not in the implied intonation. Chinese is a language where tone matters. So something like “hey” and “heyyyyyyyy” would be different words.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

So how's it pronounced?

hddsx@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Pronunciation includes tone. I suppose you could say that that’s the basis for the sound

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

So how's it pronounced?

lugal@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

This is true in all Chinese languages when spoken normally but Mandarin (unlike Cantonese) ignores tone in singing. Pretty sure the name is Mandarin

hddsx@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

When people say Chinese, it’s almost implied to be Mandarin. You are correct in both singing and that I was referring to mandarin. Technically mandarin and canto are both dialects of Chinese. Mandarin is just the official dialect

lugal@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

And since the post was about singing, your whole argument is flawed. Checkmate atheist

nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

kind of like gangsta "yo"

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Word

Dolphinfreetuna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Word Word

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 2y

This is not actually all that interesting of a twist except for one line...

  • Happy birthday to you
  • Happy birthday to you
  • Happy birthday, dear Tu Youyou
  • Happy birthday to you.
lugal@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 2y

As if celebrating birth on the 30th December wasn't difficult enough...

midget247@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

Tu Youyou Tu Meme

Rip king.

RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Wait till they hear about gay hitler

yuriy@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Dr. Gay Ludwig Hitler, born to George Washington Hitler

You can’t make this shit up, what a world

RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The worst part is not only he was born before those were offensive, but his last name wasn't even meant to be hitler, it was a weird misspelling of hiedler or something similar.

yuriy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

it’s so much stupider, Adolf Hitler was the one with the misspelled name. his dad wanted to adopt his own stepfather’s family name, and misspelled it on the form.

Adi2121@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y

The town he was in, Pickaway County, Ohio, has several things named Hitler something or other. All of them are related to this guys family, not the other one.

MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 2y