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#1 Bespoke Cheese Cake

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Posted 12 January 2016 - 01:51 AM

Yes this will probably seem like a silly question, but I have been wondering for a while now as to how one should pronounce "Liao" ? The way it is written it looks like it should be something like "Lee-ow", but sometimes it sort of makes sense to skim the **i and make it sound like L-ao.

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Posted 12 January 2016 - 02:10 AM

Without knowing which chinese character it's derived from, hard to say. Chinese has many homophones and it only varies by how you say it.

This is one way:

Edited by ArcturusWolf, 12 January 2016 - 02:10 AM.


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Posted 12 January 2016 - 04:15 PM

according to MC2 which is the only, as far as I can think, source we hear it said, it's pronounced Lee-Ow. it's possiable given the inner sphere though that there are differant variations depending on where you're from. communications in the Inner Sphere being what it is, I could see language developing a bit like Chinese did, where you have one way of spelling things across what is essentually multiple differant languages





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