How Do You Pronounce Feng Shui?
By Bock Dec 2nd, 2008 | Category: Bock rant, Travel
It really annoys me when somebody corrects my pronunciation of Feng Shooey.
- Oh, it’s pronounced Fung Shway, you know.
- By who? I ask.
- By the Chinese.
- Oh really? And do they spell it Feng Shui?
- Eh, no.
- That’s right, you condescending git. The Chinese don’t write Feng Shui. They write this:
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OK?
You’re the one who writes it as Feng Shui, not the fucking Chinese, and Feng Shui spells Feng Shooey! Can’t you fucking read? If you mean to say Fung Shway, don’t write Feng Shui. It’s very simple.
And what’s more, Feng Shooey is a load of fucking bullshit. It’s just the Chinese for tidying up.
It’s just the Chinese for tidying up.
Priceless. Not in a Mastercard way, just priceless.
and who said the Chinese weren’t Capitalists…..
I’ll have a little feng shwuee…t with my interior design….that’ll be an additional 15% please.
…’tidying up’…haha
hey Bock, how about a few pints and a bit of fishing in An Daingean?
Nuts
Spot on, Bock. One just can’t overestimate the impact of proper pronunciation.
I am reminded of a Human Rights Summit. Topic: The Roots of Democracy and Enduring Freedom.
Two delegates meet in the cafeteria.
- Where are you from?
- China.
- Interesting. Do you have elections in China, too?
- Elections? Oh, yes – evely molning, evely molning.
it’s just the Chinese for puttin the toilet seat down un case yer poisitive Chi goes down the u-bend
thats awesome, kinda reminds me of the vietnamese last names nguyen….supposedly pronounced “when”….how did that happen?
Ity isn’t awesome. it might be thought-provoking or interesting but it’s not awesome.
Awesome is when you’re overcome with astonishment and terror. Awesome is for earthquakes and hurricanes and tidal waves. This is just a blog post.
What word will you use if you ever see something truly awesome? Wow! That planet exploding is, like, real big? And scary?
Take it easy man, just complimenting your post. Since you don’t appreciate hyperbole, I enjoyed reading blog entry. I’ll probably mention your views the next time Feng Shui comes up in conversation.
Don’t mind me. I get grumpy at that hour of night.
Well…about the fung shay (feng shui) pronunciation..it´s kind of like when people who don´t know our language will pronounce: “roge” instead of “ruff” (ROUGH)…they don´t know squat about it and we are definately not tidying it up as you say..it just that our language such as many others are aglommerative. Chill out man