How do you pronounce 'Lian Li'

I say lee ann lee....

But this has been asked before and i am sure, based on lian li's country of origin... it is meant to be spoken 'lane', not lee-ann or lion


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I have just confirmed with a Chinese friend, and he says it is meant to be said 'lane' :)
 
R B Customs said:
I say lee ann lee....

But this has been asked before and i am sure, based on lian li's country of origin... it is meant to be spoken 'lane', not lee-ann or lion


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I have just confirmed with a Chinese friend, and he says it is meant to be said 'lane' :)
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Ive already said further up in the thread that this was done a while back and on another forum someone actually contacted Lian Li who confirmed it was Lee-An Lee, also translates to Joint Force/Power.

EDIT: Found this: http://www.3dgameman.com/content/view/589/103/
 
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Without being rude, I don't think i'll trust Rodney Reynolds to give me pointers on pronounciation, have you heard the man say "aluminium" or "Dual"? :D

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weihk said:
Lian Li = TW company = Mandarin

Lian - spoken in Mandarin = lián (laan...get the idea?) = meaning Join/Ally
Li - spoken in Mandarin = Lee (Li, same thing) = strenght, power, force

lerng li.......just 2 words, 2 syllable........none of these Lee-ann Lee......

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side note
if, 聯力 (Lian Li) is a HK company, the english name would be written like this, Luen Lik
not very interesting i know.....just a thought....
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IanY said:
Like I said.. "Lian" as in just one syllable. Sounds like "Lyane" and ryhmes with "Shane"...

Li as in one syllable, sounds like "Lee"

I do not understand why everyone has to butcher the name into three or four syllables.

Lee-ann-Lee is most definitely incorrect. Loo-ann-Lee.. wtf how does anyone arrive at that ? Or Lie-ann-Lie... wtf... how do you get "Lie" from anything with an "-ian" at the end ?

I had a Caucasian store retailer ARGUE with me that its Lee-Yan-Lie... KNOWING that I am Chinese lol And I even wrote out the Chinese characters for him and explained the etymology of each word, and YET, he wasn't convinced because it is how his distributor (non-Chinese) pronounces lol

Don't even get me started on Ahh-Soos... stupid asses :) A.. as in the letter A... Sus... as in rhymes with Us. Simple pronounciation completely murdered lol :)

Why can't they just rename the company, "KICK ASS" lol :D
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i have allways mis read it and the first time i saw the word when i read it quick, i spelt the word "Li lan" in my head so thats what iv sticked to in my head when i see the word.

but i think its pronounced Lion Li (the Li sounding like Ay)
 
Lie-Ann Lee

As for:

Lie-ann-Lie... wtf... how do you get "Lie" from anything with an "-ian" at the end ?
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Well um, because the second vowel makes the 'i' into an 'I'...
 
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2 x I's = E sound
1 x I = I Sound

'Lian Li' = Lie anne Lie
'Nintendo WII' = Nin-ten-dooo WEE

Get me?

Unless you were saying it in Chinese and not English lol
 
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Burt said:
Properly, obviously (lee-ann lee). Seems like most of you need to learn English. :p
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It isn't in English though, if it were it would be spelt (and thus pronounced) in a completely different way :p

It's Lane Lee... I usually say Lee-an Lee though as that's what I am used to saying.
 
brief and horrific youtube search of "lian" revealed some awfull pop videos, but it appears to be pronounced either

Lee-ann

or more commonly lee-un and leear

I think its fairy obvious "li" is pronounced "lee", so i saved myself the torment of looking that one up :P
 
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good grief are you still discussing this? I told you!

Its pronounced KEITH! if you want it in phonetics its KEY-FF

Or trevor TREH-VORE if you're a foreign.
 
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