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Of course. But the "official" (as you say) transliterations of world languages enjoy wide usage not because they're necessarily the best anyone could come up w
by caseyross 5y ago
Of course.
But the "official" (as you say) transliterations of world languages enjoy wide usage not because they're necessarily the best anyone could come up with --- rather, they just represented the right local maxima at the right time in history.
Displacing those romanization systems with better ones (assuming those exist) would be an uphill battle lasting decades, and I wager there aren't many people who would find that struggle worth the effort.
- usrusr 5y agoParticularly when the dominant language that uses roman letters is lacking a consistent alphabetic encoding system itself. Before you start replacing pinyin, you might want to take a long, critical look at how English is written.