> The vast majority of Chinese people in the world today writing their names using the English alphabet use a system called Pinyin Pet peeve of man, but roman

> The vast majority of Chinese people in the world today writing their names using the English alphabet use a system called Pinyin Pet peeve of man, but roman script is not the 'English alphabet'. Unless you think people write Spanish in 'English'... If you want to be super pedantic and say you can write pinyin using the subset of the roman alphabet that English uses, I can in turn be even more pedantic and say Pinyin is meant to be written with tone marks.