New Members 无名氏 Posted March 11, 2011 at 05:51 AM New Members Report Posted March 11, 2011 at 05:51 AM Gwoyeu Romatzyh vs Latinxua Sin Wenz vs Hanyu Pinyin When using Hanyu Pinyin you have to read every tone mark but in Gwoyeu Romatzyh and Latinxua this is not the case. So why didn't the PRC make them the official romanization system instead of Hanyu Pinyin? Isn't Hanyu Pinyin the least useful out of the three? Quote
renzhe Posted March 11, 2011 at 12:56 PM Report Posted March 11, 2011 at 12:56 PM Probably because Pinyin is much easier to learn. I don't know why you would think that Hanyu Pinyin is the least useful of the three. Latinxua completely ignores tones, and Gwoyeu Romatzyh encodes them into the finals, so it is considerably more complex. Hanyu Pinyin is the only one of the three that has ever been widely used, although it is the youngest. Quote
Hofmann Posted March 11, 2011 at 07:24 PM Report Posted March 11, 2011 at 07:24 PM Smells like a...nevermind. A benefit to putting tones in letters instead of in diacritics is that they are less easy to ignore, but I don't like how Gwoyeu Romatzyh does it. I'd rather a letter be added at the end, such as s, x, and h. Hanyu Pinyin's diacritics seem intuitive to those who pay attention to them. Quote
roddy Posted March 12, 2011 at 12:39 AM Report Posted March 12, 2011 at 12:39 AM Smells like a...nevermind. Good spot - seems like this poster was embarrassed to ask the question from his other account for some reason. A benefit to putting tones in letters instead of in diacritics is that they are less easy to ignore If I was going to make any changes, which I'm not as it'd involve way more effort than benefit, I'd take tone information out of the diacritics and put it into the letters somehow. Quote
LiScing Posted June 14, 2011 at 05:57 PM Report Posted June 14, 2011 at 05:57 PM I'd rather a letter be added at the end, such as s, x, and h. I've tried that before for the third tone. The letter v, since it is unused in Mandarin, is suitable for marking syllables with the 3rd tone. For example, paov instead of pǎo. It definitely works well. Quote
jbradfor Posted June 14, 2011 at 06:41 PM Report Posted June 14, 2011 at 06:41 PM v is commonly used as a replacement for ü. And what about the other tones? What did you do for them? Quote
imron Posted June 15, 2011 at 01:31 AM Report Posted June 15, 2011 at 01:31 AM pao- pao/ paov and pao\ ? In my biased opinion however, something like Pinyinput is much more effective. Quote
WestTexas Posted June 15, 2011 at 02:24 PM Report Posted June 15, 2011 at 02:24 PM I just write shi1, shi2, shi3, shi4, and shi. Really anything that clearly represents the phonetics is fine. Quote
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