#i can't get the tones right but even just using an ah instead of Aa gets you closer

[volixia669]

“Okay Daniel, the fate of everything rests on your shoulders. Now, here is the thing. You have to pronounce Yu Huang Shang Ti correctly or literally all the Goauld will know you’re a fake. Can you do it?”

Cue Daniel being murdered, and the Tok’ra destroyed.

No but seriously, I may not speak Chinese but I know Daniel’s pronounciation was baaaaaaaaaaaaad. Which, sure, okay, the linguist doesn’t know Mandarin, fine, he can’t know every language. But any linguist worth their salt would know that oh gee, maybe don’t use American pronounciation of letters for literally any language other than English.