Cancel The Peking Olympics

I'm sure your post will have a real effect on the games.

OP = Herbert Giles

Actually, OP, the city's "real" name is 北京 (or to be precise, 北京市). It is simply rendered differently in Pinyin and Wade–Giles.

No, it's Peking in English, there are no scribbles in the English alphabet

There are no scribbles in Beijing either.

Are they having a winter one this time?

I don't like Peking.

Oom-go Jo-Yo Jeh!

[quote]I don't like Peking.

But their ducks are delicious.

[quote]But their ducks are delicious.

Rabbit season!

I am also sure the OP's insistence we call it "Peking" rather than "Beijing" will have a cascading worldwide effect!

Who are you, OP: Pat Nixon?

Technically, "Peking" and "Beijing" have the same pronunciation. It's just for some weird reason, the creators of Pinyin decided that the "p" sound should be written with a "b" rather than a "p".

Broadly speaking, an American naively attempting to pronounce the Wade-Giles spelling is more likely to approximate the correct pronunciation than an American naively attempting to pronounce the Pinyin spelling.

“Beijing” is not an English word, R5. It’s Pinyin (to spell the sound) of the Chinese words 北 and 京, or “North Capital”. Though you sound a tad uncultured, so I’m sure this is of no interest to you.

Sorry, that was for R4.

After the Peking Olympics we can swing through Siam on our way to Constantinople!

Who cares how some Americans mispronounce the name of the capital city of China.

Do you have an issue with how some Chinese might mispronounce “Washington DC”?

I like their duck.

The infrastructures are a new environmental disaster. Bravo IOC, bend over and TAKE IT (not so deep) FROM THE CCP

The Chinese pronounce covid as 'today's lunch meat.'

Just cancel everything shithole China. Millions of people have died and hundreds of millions of people's lives have been ruined, just because the shithole Chinese government wanted to experiment on the coronavirus.

Fuck them, and fuck them hard.

[quote] It's just for some weird reason, the creators of Pinyin decided that the "p" sound should be written with a "b" rather than a "p".

Why is Pinyin so weird? Wang is pronounced Wong. So why not just write it as Wong. The name Huang trips people up. It’s pronounced Hwong. But some people don’t even correct the pronunciations so you have Vera WANG when her real name is pronounced Vera Wong.

Giving the Olympics to China is no different than allowing the Nazis to host ... after the war.

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r24 Jan 14, 2022

[quote] But some people don’t even correct the pronunciations so you have Vera WANG when her real name is pronounced Vera Wong.

The PHILISTINES!! How DARE they!!

Get a grip, OP. No one is scared of Covid anymore. Plus, I want to see my figure skating, for God’s sake.

[quote]Why is Pinyin so weird?

yeah, why call it xi'an when it's said sian

The name of the city literally translates to 'North Capital'

At work they want us to celebrate Chinese New Year. I'm like bitch, I still blame them for covid. Fuck that.

I've no interest in the Genocide Olympics, and I'm not talking about Covid.