http://wordlily.com/2008/08/16/beijing-or-beijing/ For the love of language (and some fiber arts, too) Tue, 29 May 2012 12:29:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://wordlily.com/2008/08/16/beijing-or-beijing/#comment-1786 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:31:14 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=377#comment-1786 [...] The Banquet Bug by Geling Yan, via the list of Chinese must-reads published to coincide with the Beijing Olympics. I chose this one to buy (first) mainly because it deals with journalism and food, at [...]

]]> http://wordlily.com/2008/08/16/beijing-or-beijing/#comment-1734 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:56:38 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=377#comment-1734 Yeah, I had understood that from the post, thanks.

]]> http://wordlily.com/2008/08/16/beijing-or-beijing/#comment-1733 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:12:46 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=377#comment-1733 Just so you know, an IPA [j] is a consonantal y sound, so the glide version is going from a j sound to a y sound, not to the sound usually used in English.

]]> http://wordlily.com/2008/08/16/beijing-or-beijing/#comment-1730 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:50:38 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=377#comment-1730 Ah, very good. It’s important, you know?

]]> http://wordlily.com/2008/08/16/beijing-or-beijing/#comment-1729 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:50:12 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=377#comment-1729 I learned the answer to this on NPR yesterday when Melissa Block was interviewing Anthony Kuhn (who I was SURE was Chinese, but it turns out, no: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4458700). She asked him how the name was properly pronounced, and he set us all straight that it’s “Bay JING” with a hard “j”, not “Bay-SHING” or “Bay-CHING” like some Americans call it.

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