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On June 25 at 2:59 PM by changye

Normal 0 0 2 Hi kimiik Thanks a lot for a nice piece of information. I've found a relevant news article. Times have changed. 台湾当局决定调整中文... Read more

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On June 25 at 2:52 PM by John

And you thought we were just reusing the same voice actors over and over! Oh yes... everything is connected! Read more

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On June 25 at 2:41 PM by tvan

@changye, you often see children (and sometimes adults) mix bopomopo and characters in Taiwan in the same fashion.  Must be a feature of a charac... Read more

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On June 25 at 2:39 PM by changye

Hi kimiik Of course, it's not politically correct. Actually Hanyu Pinyin is just an extention of 拉丁化新文字. Thankfully, the CCP adopted the Latin alpha... Read more

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On June 25 at 2:13 PM by kimiik

Speaking of Taiwan, since January 1st 2009, Pinyin is the official romanization system there. Now promoting other systems could be seen as rearguard a... Read more

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On June 25 at 1:42 PM by kimiik

Is it politically correct to forget that the actual Pinyin system was strongly inspired by the Latinxua Sin Wenz ( 拉丁化新文字) developped by chinese nat... Read more

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Posted on: Baby Photos
On June 25 at 1:10 PM by pnolan

nice episode- I think I need to show off my little girl ;) half shanghainese Half Dublinese ;) let me see if we can dig this out, she's a great GAA pl... Read more

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Posted on: Baby Photos
On June 25 at 12:56 PM by junejune122009

Isn't photo sometimes pronounced zhao4pian1, with first tone pian1, or is that only when it is zhao4pian'er1?     Read more

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On June 25 at 12:03 PM by mickeytoon

Thanks Changye - Understood Read more

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On June 25 at 11:46 AM by bodawei

@changye Your mixture of 拼音 and 汉字 looks like one of my 听写!  (No computers in class.)  I would write in pinyin if the character takes too... Read more