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Not really. I am yet to hear someone use it in an everyday sentence. It is also a romanisation.
by quickthrower2 4y ago
Not really. I am yet to hear someone use it in an everyday sentence. It is also a romanisation.
- dagw 4y agoYou obviously don't hang out with people into pseudo-eastern 'philosophy'. I know several people who use it regularly. Of all the 'weird' two letter words mentioned, I'd consider qi probably the most reasonable and common, and certainly one that I actually hear used
- Tams80 4y agoEspecially with it being the name of the defacto standard of wireless charging. A brand name, yes, but from an actual word.
- dagw 4y agoIt was also the name of a promising, but ultimately failed, display technology[0]. [0] Anybody else here remember being both very excited about, and then very disappointed by, the Adam?
- iopq 4y agoThe word "gi" is also a romanization. So is "tsunami" and "matryoshka". Going further, the word "alphabet" is a romanization of ἀλφάβητος in Latin so any borrowed word from a non-Latin alphabet is a romanization, that's not a sane criterion (κριτήριον)
- RandExt 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_(standard) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_(standard) I see this usage here more often than the mysticism one.