At 11:34 AM -0500 10/3/01, Ayers, Mike wrote:
> Pinyin still has similar problems (Xi'an/Xian), but, yes, they're
>less frequent. Nevertheless, W-G had the advantage of presenting words that
>were at least pronounceable (albeit pronounced incorrectly) by the average
>English speaker, unlike Pinyin, which leaves us to puzzle out how to prounce
>"qun" and "xue", while still mispronouncing "cun" and "peng". In my eyes,
>it's a tie.
>
Yeah, well, they're both based on the wrong dialect, anyway.
Barbaric Mandarin-speaking northerners. :-)
--John H. Jenkins jenkins@apple.com jenkins@mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
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