Well, I like to think of it like this:
Say "its."
Now, get rid of the 'i' in "its." You're left with the 'ts' sound, which is what you use in 'tsoo' and 'tsunami.'
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Dear lord. I guess we were wrong then. Still I agree that they were given a very Ninjaesque look and am therefore most likely going to stick with the way I've been saying it. The combined T and S sound.
Hmong. Huh. I guess today wasn't a waste then, since I'VE definitely learned something.
*edit* Hey! I think TheDeepBlue has pretty much nailed it there! Score!
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Well, I like to think of it like this:
Say "its."
Now, get rid of the 'i' in "its." You're left with the 'ts' sound, which is what you use in 'tsoo' and 'tsunami.'
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That's exactly what I was looking for and couldn't think of. Thanks for setting it forth it so clearly.
Upsen.
There are just tsoo many ways to pronounce tsoo.
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Actually someone found a linguistics website where a Hmong speaker spoke the word "Tsoo" (Which incidentally means "To Hit or Strike"). And yes, the Tsoo are NOT Chinese or Japanese, they are Hmong. Anyway, the word "Tsoo" sounded much like someone saying "jong" or "djong". Very interesting.
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Hearing this, I looked up a search in metacrawler for "hmong tsoo"
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Wait a minute, Hmong is real!? I thought they just made it up so they'd have a vaugely asian sounding country without singling out any actual ones! 
Quite real. A couple of the guys I worked with at my last job were Hmong. Very cool people if they're any indication. Accent is a bit hard to work through sometimes, but otherwise I rather liked them. From what they said, I get the feeling it's somewhere around/near Korea.
I'm really bad at Geography by the way. ::winces::
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More commonly I call them "those [bleeping] [ohhowIhateem]."
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Yes, I call them something similar, a word that can only be seen if the profanity filter is off!!!! Especially those rammin' frammin' sorcerers! Not to mention the rassin' frassin' ghostly ancestor mabobs that they worship like Imelda loved her shoes and Tammy Fay her Revlon mascara....but I digress. I have to agree that it is as it is spelled and if pronounced properly someone near you should say, "Bless you!" 
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Well, I like to think of it like this:
Say "its."
Now, get rid of the 'i' in "its." You're left with the 'ts' sound, which is what you use in 'tsoo' and 'tsunami.'
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That's exactly what I was looking for and couldn't think of. Thanks for setting it forth it so clearly.
Upsen.
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Bah! Call them "sue" I say! (But only after you are of sufficient level for them to not be able to own you at every turn)
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"Sue"
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Ditto.
Now for a hard question: How do you pronounce "Kheldian"?
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I pronounce "Tsoo" as /tsO:/, sometimes /tsu:/
I pronounce "Kheldian" as /Xel'-di-@n/
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Actually someone found a linguistics website where a Hmong speaker spoke the word "Tsoo" (Which incidentally means "To Hit or Strike"). And yes, the Tsoo are NOT Chinese or Japanese, they are Hmong. Anyway, the word "Tsoo" sounded much like someone saying "jong" or "djong". Very interesting.
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Hearing this, I looked up a search in metacrawler for "hmong tsoo"
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Wait a minute, Hmong is real!? I thought they just made it up so they'd have a vaugely asian sounding country without singling out any actual ones!
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Hmong are a people, but there is no "Hmong" country. They live mostly in South East asia, in the area around Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and South Eastern China.
Essentially the rise of communism in Asia and the Vietnamese war took a very heavy toll on them and many have since settled in the United States in scattered pockets (There's one in California (which is why Cryptic probably knows them, and one in Wisconsin).
They've had some integration problems in the United States that causes some tension. Last year you may remember hearing a story about a Hmong hunter killing six people over an argue over a deer hunting stand. While this Hmong was probably a bad egg, there have been some tension as Hmong immigrant's have different understanding of property rules nad have been known to cross property lines to hunt as their concept of ownership is different from hours. In addition they're somewhat suspsicious of many aspects of our culture, such as Western medicine.
As for the Hmong in game, their look is somewhat generic. To me a Sorceror's appearance as well as several bosses seem much more South-East Asian than the "Ninja-lite" enforcers. The fact that their weapons are traditionally Japanese doesn't help either.
You're all wrong. It's pronounced "shar-DAY".
--NT
They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville
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That's exactly what I was looking for and couldn't think of. Thanks for setting it forth it so clearly.
Upsen.
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You're welcome. 
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2260 - The Burning of Hearts - A green-eyed monster holds the match.
379248 - The Spider Without Fangs - NEW - Some lessons learned (more or less.)
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It's very hard to explain how I pronounce "Tsoo". The language I speak has a seperate letter for a sound similar to "ts". However, in English that sound is more of a combination of two different sounds, where as I ponounce it as one. I can't explain it and most of you cannot pronounce it, so it's really pointless to try. Phonetics are not one thing which can be transcribed in any language.
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Speak Russian, do you? Or some other language that utilises the Cyrillic alphabet?
I think its like
'choo'
:-S
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It's very hard to explain how I pronounce "Tsoo". The language I speak has a seperate letter for a sound similar to "ts". However, in English that sound is more of a combination of two different sounds, where as I ponounce it as one. I can't explain it and most of you cannot pronounce it, so it's really pointless to try. Phonetics are not one thing which can be transcribed in any language.
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In college, I majored in Russian studies (language, history, etc.). When pronouncing the "ts," I always thought of the sound that a highhat (the piece of a drumset that has two opposable cymbals, worked with a pedal) makes. A very brief, staccatoed "t"-sound, followed by an "s."
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It's very hard to explain how I pronounce "Tsoo". The language I speak has a seperate letter for a sound similar to "ts". However, in English that sound is more of a combination of two different sounds, where as I ponounce it as one. I can't explain it and most of you cannot pronounce it, so it's really pointless to try. Phonetics are not one thing which can be transcribed in any language.
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In college, I majored in Russian studies (language, history, etc.). When pronouncing the "ts," I always thought of the sound that a highhat (the piece of a drumset that has two opposable cymbals, worked with a pedal) makes. A very brief, staccatoed "t"-sound, followed by an "s."
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Wow, that description rocks. Very imaginative (and, I imagine, very correct as well - quite like the 'its' explanation).
Let me try to explainify this for everyone.
To me, even if the devs came in and provided a .wav file of the pronunciation that completely differed, I will always pronounce "Tsoo" as "<highhat/its 'ts' sound> oo" Ts - oo. That's just how I am. If I am reading a book and learn a few hundred pages into it that I'm pronouncing a characters name wrong or some other term incorrectly... I'll continue to use my mispronouciation simply because that is how I've come to know that person or place or thing.
Kheldian is much more simple. It's:
Khel-d-yun (pronounced as: "Gus").
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Kheldian is much more simple. It's:
Khel-d-yun (pronounced as: "Gus").
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I thought it was pronounced "kil-skuls"
we gave up long ago trying to pronounce that word, and just started calling them Taco's
I pronounce Tsoo as
'tsu.'
and kheldian [incorrectly]
Keld-eye-an.
Because it sounds cooler than
keld-ee-an
Dawnslayer on Virtue.
In-house, we pronounce them:
<ul type="square">[*]Tsoo : tsoo (ts like tsunami or the end of its, oo as in oops)[*]Kheldian : kell' dee in[/list]And a bonus one:
<ul type="square">[*]Vahzilok : vaz' ih lock[/list]
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Im still gonna say 'T-su'
coulda just said "sue" since it's the same sound as what you described
Liberty
My 50s:
Hero: Armor Assassin (scrapper), Cross Dresser (scrapper), Surly Seaman (blaster), Defensive End (Tank), Rad Rhino (Cont)
Villain: Beast Infection (Corr), Sweet Zombie Jesus (MM), Milk Weasel (Stalker), Orgullo (MM), Agent Eris (Crab)
in my head it sounds like General Tso's chicken. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm general tso's chicken....
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Kheldian is much more simple. It's:
Khel-d-yun (pronounced as: "Gus").
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"Well, what's your middle name?"
"Ivan."
"Ivan. Well, maybe Gus isn't so bad. Might be something there."
My characters at Virtueverse
Faces of the City
well.. considering the villians looks oriental base, I am more incline to pronounce it either Chinese or Japanse base.