How do you pronounce Xuen?

[Darsithis]

I wonder why I'm the only one who thought "yoo-en"

[Cosmic Janitor]

If you really want to get technical, Blizz/Activision was owned by a French company (Vivendi) when MoP was made, so your ignorance is showing.

Which matters how exactly? Oh yeah, having part of your stock owned by something like vivendi doesn't matter at all in that regard. Blizzard is still seated in america though. Giving your characters names which require some arbitrary naming sheme to properly translate - which is nowhere indicated - is just random. It's not blizzard alone though, its common in many languages actually, I just hate it when they take a word, say a french one, and just integrate it into another language and even take away the accents, depriving it of any senable indication how to pronounce it without context.

While we are at it, how would the other 3 useless clown animals be pronounced? They surely have their own rules and I don't feel like learning pinyin at 4:17 in the morning.

[Mormolyce]

dont trust voice actors....GW2 was a prime example. quay......you pronounce it key, like everyone on the sodding planet does, apart from the voice actor they hired....really really bugs me.

To be fair it's not the VA's responsibility, the people giving them scripts or managing the recording are in charge of ensuring things like pronunciation (and I mean, imagine the job VAs have walking into recordings for hundreds of games etc and having all these weird words thrown at them all the time).

[Tziva]

I wonder why I'm the only one who thought "yoo-en"

I dunno. What language is 'x' a transliteration of a 'y' noise?

[Cosmic Janitor]

To be fair it's not the VA's responsibility, the people giving them scripts or managing the recording are in charge of ensuring things like pronunciation (and I mean, imagine the job VAs have walking into recordings for hundreds of games etc and having all these weird words thrown at them all the time).

Time is money, I guess? I get a sudden flashback to a simpsons episode where Krusty records something and does it in under 10 seconds. They probably often don't know themself or aren't present during the recording.

I dunno. What language is 'x' a transliteration of a 'y' noise?

Was wondering the same actually. I know of x, ch, mixtures of ks, cks and gs sounds, but never heared of an association with y.

[Deleted]

gziu-when ?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

(Z- en) for me.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

(Z- en) for me.

[TEHPALLYTANK]

Xuen is a piece of cake in terms of pronunciation difficulty anyways.

How do you pronounce Y'Shaarj?

ee-shaarj, I think.

[Kikazz]

if you have sound on in game they say zuu en.

[The Ogdru Jahad]

Shwen for me, I took mandarin for a couple years, I always thought the X sound was a sh, and ue is weh. I could be wrong, I did poorly in the class, but pronunciation was actually a strong point for me haha

[BobAwesome]

Schwinn

[Redpanda]

gshu en for me

[ThunderPussy]

Zoo-en here.

[KrazyK923]

Regardless of the real world inspiration, that doesn't mean Pandaren is Chinese.

Xuen and Anduin both say his name during the game. And its pronounced "Zoo-en."

The same thing for Taran Zhu. I had somebody in my Taran Zhu video absolutely crucify me because they believed it was pronounced "Taran Ju." I dont even know if that is correct or not, but, again, we go by how its pronounced by the NPCs in the game.

Its Zoo-en and Tear-an zoo. Regarding the Y'Shaarj pronunciation, its "Yah-sha-raj."

[mickybrighteyes]

It's the "correct pronunciation" because the in-game NPCs also pronounce it that way.

When and where? I've only ever heard the White Tiger

The later I disregard because it's about even with using 9.8 for gravity in an equation for freefall on another planet (until someone can point out and prove otherwise)

Granted I haven't logged in since the Vale of Eternal Blossoms was still gold and shiny and bright.

[Fabled]

Xzwen >.> Idk why my mind makes me say the X sound, I got poked at for calling Xigbar from Kingdom Hearts Xzigbar for the same reason...heh.

[Pennoyer]

Xuen is a piece of cake in terms of pronunciation difficulty anyways.

How do you pronounce Y'Shaarj?

Something like Yah-sha-raj is what I've heard devs say

[Deleted]

I've always thought it was sort of like

Zoo N

[LegendaryDude]

I allways just called him Shen. Seemed to be the easiest way