How do you pronounce "Cung Le?"

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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

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Rhymes with ‘jungle’.

Maybe.:smiley:

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kung lay isnt it?

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

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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 :slight_smile:

IronFist

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Y?

:smiley:

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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

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K!

:smiley:

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Aaaah, the old one-two!:smiley:

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

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cung le - sounds like - kung lee.

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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”.

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American pronunciation is “KUNG LEE”.
Vietnamese pronunciation is…hard as hell for me to even try to write it! :slight_smile:

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I’ve heard it pronounced Kong Lee

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I know Cung.

It’s “Kung Lee”

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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_Transcription_of_Chinese.htm
http://www.imh.org/imh/china/ed/pronounce.html

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Yeah. But he’s not Chinese.

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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.

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

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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! :wink: