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I hope that in the next ten or twenty years it will become normal practice to include tones in Chinese names, or at least typeset the original names parenthetic
by evincarofautumn 12y ago
I hope that in the next ten or twenty years it will become normal practice to include tones in Chinese names, or at least typeset the original names parenthetically beside the transliterations.
- Terr_ 12y agoVisiting Beijing a few years back, I recall a bunch of signs had a pinyin versions of the street-name showing... but without tonal marks. Never did figure that one out.
- toxik 12y agoAFAIK it's kind of uncommon to print pinyin with tones. Especially since, when Pinyin is used as an input method, you would write hua4 for huà.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoChildren's books get printed with tones. I think the lack of tones in other contexts is down to no better reason than that keyboards don't have any obvious way to enter them. Using zhuyin would solve the problem neatly, but comes with its own ("made in Taiwan") political drawbacks. It also wouldn't be an improvement in the context of English speakers reading the new yorker.