Preface: im an angloid myself who is still learning Chinese [although my instructor said I have good tones, so I’m gonna ride that compliment for a while] so I’m not expecting fluent proficiency.
But I was Watching someone and they fucking pronounced 秦始皇/Qin Shi Huang as “Kwin” Shi Huang…What?! Fucking Quinn? Other people will do it and pronounce Qing and “Kwing.”
There’s no U! It doesn’t follow English pronunciation! You’re forcing a round peg into a square hole you numbskulls!
And this goes for any language. If you need to know how to pronounce a name, just look it up or don’t even say it. Don’t just flounder your pronounciation by not even trying.
Ugh, sorry, I don’t know why I get so worked up over this.
Making up the pronunciation as you go might be excusable if you doing it live and unscripted. But the number of angloids who will unashamedly do it in prerecorded and scripted videos clearly showing they can’t be bothered to look it up is too damn high.