It is interesting to ponder how much the world would have been different if the PRC had just gone all the way to Pinyin when they decided to simplify the writin

It is interesting to ponder how much the world would have been different if the PRC had just gone all the way to Pinyin when they decided to simplify the writing system. Also interesting: the linguist who developed Pinyin is apparently still alive at age 108 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Youguang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Youguang