Overthinking

[stoutfellow]

You know you're in some kind of trouble when, reading an "Ozy and Millie" strip in which Mr. Llewellyn is recounting a story about his Chinese ancestor Ped Xing, you find yourself trying to remember if any of the Chinese languages permit voiced stops in syllable-final position.

Comments

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I was trying to figure out how you might pronounce it. My knowledge of Chinese being next to none, didn't figure it out at all.

Oh well!

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

The "X", in pinyin transcription, is kind of like a "sh", but with the tongue a bit further forward. The rest of it would be reasonably close to English pronunciation - except that that "d" really doesn't belong there.