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>mfw people pronounce it 'geng-is khan'.
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>mfw people pronounce it 'geng-is khan'.
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If people seriously get butthurt over the non-initiated pronouncing anglicised names as they would based on spelling, then we should anglicise the spelling to reflect the actual pronunciation.
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>>532531

Okay "Geng-is" if you have a problem with me calling you that then fight me.
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>>532656
I don't know why we don't just spell shit phonetically.
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>>532531
idk.. I was always taught 'Ching-is' khan in my Islamic school
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>>532672

>mfw people don't spell it Chingiz
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>>531238
>>532675
Me neither bro
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I pronounce it "chain-giss"

Everybody mad
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>>532721

Well, it would take me a second to realise who you are talking about.

"gang-kiss" is the anglicised pronunciation. English is my native language so I pronounce the anglicised form. Deal with it.joint pictures expert group
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>>532761

Are you sure "Ging-kess" isn't correct? That is what I was taught in history class at my Hindu school.
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>>532681
>Islamic school

How was that Saudi-sponsored Wahhabi indoctrination?
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I pronounce it "Prester John"
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>>532531
Why do Turkish/Russian sources all say that Genghis Khan had red hair but all art gives him black hair? Also why don't people realize more than 10% of Mongolia has red hair?
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>>532790
It was Iranian funded actually m8.
not too different from the usual schools in the area
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Anglo spelling fucks up everything

>China
>Jesus
>Persia
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>>533132
When I learned he was a big ging I was slightly amused. That was there one last chance to spread their ging phenotype.
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>>532939
Louis IX pls go. Prester John was some nigger king in Ethiopia.
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>>533148
Ginger can't be eradicated m8.
Fucking Malcolm X was a ginger.
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>>532531
>mfw people pronounce it Dschingis Khan
German for GOAT language confirmed.
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>>532681
I visited Catholic school and I say Ching-is khan too
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>>532531
what's it then?
I pronounce it like
Djinn-ghis-kaan
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I pronounce it like 成吉思汗 desu.
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>autists complain when people say "geng-is" instead of "ching-is"
>they don't complain when julius is pronounced with a hard J or caesar with a soft C
bloody hypocrites
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>>533146
How is Persia fucked up by Anglo spelling?
It's literally directly from Latin "Persia", idiot.
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Gang-gis-con
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>>533488
In Persian it is "Pars"
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>>532531
>geng-is

wtf is this shit it's gen-giss
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>>533561
Fars*
They are Arab cucks after all.
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>>533582
They are a proud people who invented everything, including wireless electricity.
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>>533593
If you mean stole everything from the designated street shitters as invented everything, sure I guess you can call them the "inventors" of everything.
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http://vocaroo.com/i/s0zkWCqSoUjx
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Is it really Chengis, not Jingis?
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>>533476
Everyone thinks I am talking about Wilhelm when I say Caesar
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>>533609
I was being sarcastic. I learned Farsi from all native speaking teachers and they really are faggots.
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>>533146
Actually French Monks were responsible for Genghiz Khan's western spelling.

Also China is from latin. Sinae, which in turn was from the Persian "Chini."
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>>533198
MOSCOW
MOSCOW
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>>533532
>all the merch at Genghis Con was stolen from other vendors
>the convention center will be razed before before day 2
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>>532531
gangrene coon
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>>533476
New Vegas taught me how to pronounce Caesar and legionares. Marco Polo taught me how Genghis is pronounced.
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>>533488
>It's literally direct from Latin "Persia", idiot
I forgot that the ancient Persians spoke Latin, idiot.
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