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Hi,
It is me again!
:)
Yes, you are so right about the " dai" sound in Chan TAI Man, but
don't you rule out the facts that
English is a crazy language in a way! Do you know words like
" colonel", " isle" and "psycho"?
If you do, you should know the correct pronunciation of " colonel" is pretty bizarre.
If you don't, you may say it is " co lo nel" or something like that.
How about " isle" and psycho"?
There is no "s" sound in " isle". " p" is a silent sound in " psycho".
If they call them SILENT sounds, then why did they put them into the words? Does that mean we may spell " psycho" like
"ppppppppppppppppppppppppsycho"? " p" is a silent sound there anyway. ^_^
I am clueless! Perhaps we may have to ask those who invented these words.(I doubt If they are still alive tho)
Your doubts about these name translations are of the same.
It is because the sounds in the Chinese language are very hard to be translated into English accurately.
Perhaps those who translated our names are Chinese. They just care less. Come on! They are Chinese names anyway.Who cares if their Chinese names have been translated into English perfectly.
:)
It is proven that they are not so right since you are asking people around about it.
That's enough for now.
Thanks for bringing up this great topic.
Until next time, see you around, pal.
