Whenever I watch videos about qi or cultivation it usually goes one of two ways.

Some people say "chi". Insist that is the right way to say it. Others say "ki/kee". Then get lots of comments telling them they are wrong and they need to say "chi.”

Recently I saw this happen with the YouTuber Amasqo who is making a cultivation Minecraft mod. He used to say it like "ki" and people kept correcting him until he started saying "chi." That made me think about this topic.

I really don’t think saying "kee" is a big deal if you are speaking English.

We do this with words all the time. Take entrepreneur. It comes from French. English speakers don’t say it the way a French person would. The french en, the r, the eu sounds gets changed to fit English sounds. Nobody stops someone in the middle of a conversation. Tells them they need to say "entrepreneur" like a French person does.

So why is qi treated differently?

"Chee" is not even the exact Mandarin pronunciation. The Mandarin q is a sound that English does not have exactly, "chee" is already an approximation.

Also Cambridge Dictionary lists /kiː/ (“kee”) as the US pronunciation of "qi ” while /tʃiː/ (“chee”) is the UK pronunciation. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/qi

If you are speaking Mandarin then of course you should say qi properly. I am not saying that Mandarin q sounds like the English k.

If you are speaking English and someone says "kee" you still know what they mean. So why is that a problem?

We change the way we say words all the time in English. So why is qi the one word that people feel the need to correct?

Honestly it is the correcting that bothers me more, than either way of saying it.

Am I missing something? Is it mostly unnecessary to correct anyone who says "kee”?

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Sauce:-Lord of the Apocalypse

Forgive me for the AI slop. I will compensate with 1000 High Tier Spirit Stones.

Sauce -Lord of the Apocalypse. It's a slop.

when I say series with op Qi refiners I don't mean immortal realms newbie descending to a lower realm but a Qi Refiner in the same plane/universe no descending bs, Recently I seen 2 new series idk if they're new or if the translation is new but the immortal cultivation in these 2 series is too op, the first one has how op they're in the description but the second series introduce them in the second world the mc goes to

He says : "Return the slab... Or suffer my curse..."

He seems to be very powerful. Maybe he is a array formation grandmaster, as he can enhance the surroundings with his fogs and so...

What should I do? Seniors?

I will protect her smile

Source: morenight88

Just throwing the idea there

Or anyone who wants to write a story together just to train and have fun and such...

Also anyone of you know discords for writing?

My style is emotional, so i wish someone who can match my style of fusing deep emotions in a novel or poem 🙏

This Righteous venerable is tired, juniors, every time I make a serious post or work hard on a post, a discussion, its always left with very little comments or discussions.

Even others, if it was just me, I would just brush it off but like sometimes I can find Gems of discussions and very little comments.

Like have people brains become so rotted by slop and tiktok that you can't even sit 2 min to write a comment in a discussion?

Like how tf can somethiing have 500 upvotes and not even 10-20 comments?

All of which are just dumb shitposting.

Like bruh being in a niche is so hard, you have r/ noveltranslations on one hand with a dumbass mod that bans everything he doesn't like

You might laugh at r/noveltranslations but even with 2-3 comments, they write paragraphs, yet here people with lacking braincells cant afford to write 2 lines!

Like people do not know the work that a post, a meme or discussion has, we don't care about upvotes and such, we care about comments so we see what others things and throw ideas around 🤷‍♂️

On the other hand, you have martialmemes where 99% of conversations is just shitposting.

Like 80% shitposting, 20% serious discussion is okay but when its all just shitposting, how can any deep ideas or discussions happen?

• Per-chapter summaries with citations, plus a list of everything named in that chapter, so you can jump straight from a chapter to any Gu, character, or place it mentions
• A link map of how everything connects, and an interactive 3D world map with a timeline
• Buckets for everything: regions, locations, heavens, earths, characters, factions, races, gu, gu-houses, killer-moves, cultivation, paths, materials, recipes, inheritances, eras, arcs, fights, legends, world-map, link-map
• A lot of art visualising chapters, characters, and the rest

Still in progress (chapter summaries, filling out the wiki, more art), but the shape is done, and I wanted to share it now. If you spot mistakes or inaccuracies, I'd love to hear about them, ideally via the community Discord server.

Seniors i think immortal cultivation is about being gay.

Think deeply, When you start the cultivation and reach a level beyond human they tell you to forsaken all the moral bonds which includes getting a partner but as u progress more it's time to maintain your humanity so now you need to create bonds and love them and not lose your humanity, but because you created the principal of not forming relationship with women now you can't do that but you need relation to not lose humanity.

In simple words first they tell us to create principles where he stops forming relationships with the opposite gender but as we progress we need relations to keep humanity but we can't go back on our principals we created back then if we did it would result in iq darivation or heart demon's

So the only option now is to be gay and from a relationship with our fellow brother like Greek mortals used to do.