Tones

bo2jia1sen1
 January 29, 2012, 10:49 AM posted in General Discussion

I'm not generally in favour of capital punishment but I'll make an exception in the case of people who write pin1yin1 without indicating the tones.

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hamshank
 January 29, 2012, 03:02 PM

weishenme? :)

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babyeggplant

ham?shank?hǎohuài啊！

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hamshank

I couldn't help myself!

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bo2jia1sen1

sorry hamshank I couldn't understand what you said.

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adam_p_lax
 April 25, 2013, 04:44 AM

you've gotta start learning characters. writing in pinyin gets too confusing after a while without using characters.

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chris

Never a truer word said. Get onto characters as soon as you can. Wish i had followed this advice when I first started out. Unfortunately we are an impatient species!

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waiguoren

I think this illustrates the point quite well:

http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/stonelion.php