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OwainLW
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Q: How do they decide how English/new words names are translated into Chinese?

I mean words like:

 

Obama - Aobama

Chocolate: Qiaokeli

Blog - Boke

 

There are many more. Is there any logic behind how they do it? As some of them don't sound like good transliterations to me. I've heard from some people that the Mandarin transliterations are often stolen from Cantonese which actually do sound a bit more closer to the English pronunciation. 

 

Eg:

 

Obama: Ngawbaammaa

Chocolate: Chewkolik

Blog: Baawko (maybe not that one)

 

Of course it would be incredibly imperialistic of me to expect them to use words that sound close to what English ones sound, but I'm curious as to their logic.

13 years 15 weeks ago in  Culture - China

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I am curious as to when logic was last used in China

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Probably a Chinese Tee-Shirt company Chinglish Writer

can you imagine the uproar if we mispronounce Chinese Dignitary's Names?

You Offend China  ......... same old broken record indecision

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We should give them all English names; Xi Jinping could be Jimmy Xi, etc...

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