How is that name pronounced in the west? Here it would be pronounced something kinda/sorta like “LEE-OWE KAHNG” Each one syllable (the first being a diphthong). The latter syllable is difficult to transcribe into an English word. I can’t think of a word in English that has that vowel sound precisely, but it’s basically the “a” in “father”, not in “cask”.
(Now be glad I didn’t explain Laura Luo’s family name…)
To be fair, there’s also several American accents that could screw up the pronunciation depending upon what part of the country they’re from. I’d be amazed if a country the size of China didn’t have similar occurrences.
… It does?
How is that name pronounced in the west? Here it would be pronounced something kinda/sorta like “LEE-OWE KAHNG” Each one syllable (the first being a diphthong). The latter syllable is difficult to transcribe into an English word. I can’t think of a word in English that has that vowel sound precisely, but it’s basically the “a” in “father”, not in “cask”.
(Now be glad I didn’t explain Laura Luo’s family name…)
To be fair, there’s also several American accents that could screw up the pronunciation depending upon what part of the country they’re from. I’d be amazed if a country the size of China didn’t have similar occurrences.
I’m approximately 99.44% positive that at no point would “Liu” be pronounced as “Lu” in any dialect of Chinese.
Seeing as they already have the perfectly cromulent “Lu” available for that sound.
Romanizations are by definition sound-based, unlike characters.
Not what I was trying to say, but I can understand how you thought that - sorry. I was speaking in a more general sense.
I mean, it all depends on whether you like being correct, or are following the pronunciation from the 1992 videogame Mortal Kombat.
How is it pronounced there?
As “loo kang”, rhymes with “bang”