Tsoo pronunciation


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15 pages to resolve Tsoo pronunciation.

Wow.

I like cheese and the color blue.

Anyone else?

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The cheese is moldy. Whaere is the bathroom?

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The silver is tarnished, repeat, the SILVER IS TARNISHED!
Acknowledge...


 

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15 pages to resolve Tsoo pronunciation.

Wow.

I like cheese and the color blue.

Anyone else?

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The cheese is moldy. Whaere is the bathroom?

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The silver is tarnished, repeat, the SILVER IS TARNISHED!
Acknowledge...

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Oh look, my tsoo is untied...


 

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[Oh look, my tsoo is untied...

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LMAO!!

Sorry... I'm easily amused...


 

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Well, I'd guess it's Sue, as in "The Susies". Or would that be The Tsoosies? Do I get a cookie, devs???


 

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Dunno bout the cheese, but I'm down with blue.


 

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But the Tsoo have been established as Hmong, and not Japanese, even though they are wearing ninja-like clothes and wield ninja-like weapons.

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I suppose there are Japanese fanboys among the Hmong, just like in whitebread America. How many Caucasian heroes are there currently running around with katanas? Hm?

It's not any weirder than an African-American from Iowa going into a Mexican restaurant in Canada and ordering Columbian coffee.

.... And I'm legally empowered to say "whitebread," what with me being of proper multi-continental American mutt ancestry. Nyah!


 

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...among the Hmong...

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Aie! I intentionally avoid using those words when talking about
when I met some Hmong in SE China.

For those not in the know, "the H in Hmong is unaspirated" i.e.
don't pronounce it.

To these very Western, very American ears, I hear:

"Mong"

like "among" without the "a." My Hmong friends choose not
to correct me when I say Hmong that way, so I figure I must
be close :-)

Also, a good google on Hmong will get you to pages briefly
covering their history, to wit:

They were in approx. SE China before the Han Chinese (the
main 95% of China's population today) met them.

The Han, from a few thousand years ago until the late 1800s,
used their larger, faster-growing population (lots of arable
farmland) to push the Hmong into the mountains, thus making
the Hmong one of many peoples known as the Miao (just like
a cat says it, but romanized like that) or "Mountain People(s)."

The Han treated the Hmong and other minorities like the
American Colonists eventually treated Native Americans, though
the Hmong were eventually left to themselves in the mountains,
with poor farmland. (They terrace mountains to create more
flat land for farming. One of the few areas in the world you'll
see this method of farming.) Native Americans, by contrast,
got reservations and really bad treaties.

Eventually, 20th century remorse descended upon China as it
has on the USA.

Today, minorities are exempt from the 1-child rule in China,
and are encouraged to have large families and grow their
population.

I just got back from China, and saw lots of old-and-new.

Bustling Hmong market with both traditional Hmong dress and
Western clothes alike.

Farmer with Ox and Cart in front of a Hmong elementary
school's TV satellite dish. (or possibly just large round TV
antenna, but it looked like a dish to me.)

Hmong brick house with VCD (Video CD) player, OLD 17"
TV, OLD stereo amp, one light bulb hanging from the ceiling,
and motorbike in good condition.

The Hmong I met were in good spirits, though indoor plumbing
is unknown out in the boondocks. Not even Eastern toilets, but
rather outhouses. Yes, TVs, but no plumbing. MOBILE PHONES,
but no plumbing.

Power lines go almost everywhere though; I guess China has
its own rural electrification project.

Someone mentioned the Hmong in Central California. I didn't
know they were that far south from Sacramento, where there
are some large Hmong churches.


 

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I suppose there are Japanese fanboys among the Hmong, just like in whitebread America. How many Caucasian heroes are there currently running around with katanas? Hm?

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Hmmm, I saw a Hissing Chicken over on Pinnacle running around with one, though I think he was actually trying to cross the road.

As for the Tsoo, place the tip of your tongue on the roof of your mouth then say "soo" normally. That should prolly get ya close.
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I suppose there are Japanese fanboys among the Hmong, just like in whitebread America. How many Caucasian heroes are there currently running around with katanas? Hm?

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Hmmm, I saw a Hissing Chicken over on Pinnacle running around with one, though I think he was actually trying to cross the road.

As for the Tsoo, place the tip of your tongue on the roof of your mouth then say "soo" normally. That should prolly get ya close.
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Or you can say Joong like the Hmong. Sorry couldn't 'elp it.


 

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in my head it sounds like General Tso's chicken. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm general tso's chicken....

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Indeed!



------->"Sic Semper Tyrannis"<-------

 

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Wow... that is evil threadromancy...


 

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Indeed.

But while it's up and about, I wish the Devs would give us an outdoor Tsoo mission map based on the Laotian Plain of Jars

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Also, if you've ever stared drunkenly at a Wells Fargo ATM wondering what "Hmoob" was, that's the language of the Hmong.

Since I've never seen it on any other bank's ATM, I assume most Hmong in the US bank at Wells Fargo.