拼音之父 "Father of Pinyin" Zhou Youguang at age 102!
Joachim
February 24, 2008, 05:21 PM posted in General DiscussionI just stumbled across this interesting video at the BBC: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/feb/20/zhaou.youguang.pinyin
RJ
February 24, 2008, 10:53 PMWow, 102 and he is living in Beijing. I was just there, I wonder if he would have accepted a visitor? I would love to ask him some questions. Thank Joachim.
AuntySue
February 25, 2008, 07:35 AMOh boy I'd love to ask him some questions too, but I wouldn't do it to him. He seems like a nice old bloke who only intended pinyin to be used to help Chinese people, for whom it works fine.
Joachim
February 25, 2008, 09:23 PMAuntySue: You're not so fond of Pinyin, are you?
Joachim
February 24, 2008, 09:11 PMOh, and it's fifty years now since the inception of Pinyin as I understand from the accompanying article.