How do you pronounce "Cung Le?" [Archive]

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IronFist

01-26-2003, 11:34 PM

I assume "Cung" isn't "Kung" or else it would be spelled "Kung." So, what is the "C" in Chinese to English Romanization?

Or just, how do you pronounce his name?

IronFist

Mr Punch

01-27-2003, 12:00 AM

Rhymes with 'jungle'.

Maybe.:D

diego

01-27-2003, 12:00 AM

kung lay isnt it?

cha kuen

01-27-2003, 12:04 AM

Cung Le is a vietnamese name not a chinese name. You would have to get a vietnamese guy to get all the tones...

IronFist

01-27-2003, 12:47 AM

Originally posted by cha kuen
Cung Le is a vietnamese name not a chinese name. You would have to get a vietnamese guy to get all the tones...

::smacks own forehead::

Duh.

Well, I just want to know how the "C" is pronounced :)

IronFist

Mr Punch

01-27-2003, 12:49 AM

Y?

:D

IronFist

01-27-2003, 12:52 AM

Cuz I'm curious. When I'm reading something in a magazine and I see his name I want to know how to say it in my head.

IronFist

Mr Punch

01-27-2003, 12:56 AM

K!

:D

Mr Punch

01-27-2003, 12:57 AM

Aaaah, the old one-two!:D

GunnedDownAtrocity

01-27-2003, 01:02 AM

simply replace all words you aren't sure about with "cu nt filth" in your head. works for me.

ShaolinTiger00

01-27-2003, 07:36 AM

cung le - sounds like - kung lee.

MightyB

01-27-2003, 07:51 AM

ESPN 2 rebroadcast one of his fights after the Super Bowl last night. After watching that, I think that his name should be pronounced as "kicks @ss".

LEGEND

01-27-2003, 04:08 PM

American pronunciation is "KUNG LEE".
Vietnamese pronunciation is...hard as hell for me to even try to write it! :)

Brad

01-27-2003, 04:11 PM

I've heard it pronounced Kong Lee

ShaolinTiger00

01-27-2003, 04:15 PM

I know Cung.

It's "Kung Lee"

PLCrane

01-27-2003, 09:35 PM

If he were Chinese, and using Pinyin Romanization, it would be pronounced like Tsung.

Here are some pronunciation guides:
http://www.1jn.com/1/pinyin.html
http://www.humancomp.org/misc/china_2002/Guide_to_Pronunciation_of_Standard_Pinyin_Transcri ption_of_Chinese.htm
http://www.imh.org/imh/china/ed/pronounce.html

Serpent

01-27-2003, 09:39 PM

Yeah. But he's not Chinese.

PLCrane

01-27-2003, 09:51 PM

Iron Fist asked for a general answer to apply to reading names in magazines. He'll probably run into a Chinese name or two that might begin with C. Might even run into one that begins with X or Zh. The correct pronunciations are not intuitive for those of us who speak English. My apologies to Cung Le if he thought I was suggesting an alternate pronunciation of his name.

PLCrane

01-27-2003, 09:56 PM

Oops! No, he didn't ask a general question. Too bad. Now he knows whether he wants to or not.

Serpent

01-27-2003, 10:11 PM

Originally posted by PLCrane
Oops! No, he didn't ask a general question. Too bad. Now he knows whether he wants to or not.

Aha! ;)

IronFist

01-28-2003, 12:14 AM

Originally posted by PLCrane
Iron Fist asked for a general answer to apply to reading names in magazines. He'll probably run into a Chinese name or two that might begin with C. Might even run into one that begins with X or Zh. The correct pronunciations are not intuitive for those of us who speak English. My apologies to Cung Le if he thought I was suggesting an alternate pronunciation of his name.

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure "X" is like "sh," right? But there's a difference between "x" and "sh," I think but I don't know what it is. And "zh" is like a "J" in French, right?

That's what I think, but I might be wrong.

By the way, it's cool that you brought this up. I've been curious of how to pronounce some Chinese words romanized in English for a while now.

IronFist