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Even more than that: Romanization was the official goal of the Communist party until Stalin talked them out of it! https://faroutliers.com/2004/04/24/how-stali
by canjobear 7mo ago
Even more than that: Romanization was the official goal of the Communist party until Stalin talked them out of it!
https://faroutliers.com/2004/04/24/how-stalin-and-the-cultural-revolution-preserved-a-chinese-tradition/ https://faroutliers.com/2004/04/24/how-stalin-and-the-cultur...
- contingencies 7mo agoNice! Didn't know that. I wonder if they Romanized transliterated 'Vissarionovich' as a test case. Regardless, with pinyin they certainly did a better job than the Taiwanese! Pretty chilling evidence for the emergence of post-revolution Mandarin as newspeak, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
- justaboutanyone 7mo agoWhile pinyin might be "better", there's still a lot of room for something better than it