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  • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Pinyin is obviously the correct choice since Wade-Giles is an incredibly bad (and imperialist) system, which is why the counter-revolutionaries on Taiwan still used it until a couple years ago, when they threw in the towel and started using the only system that makes any kind of sense. But I do kind of like the bizzare and convoluted spellings you get with Wade–Giles, only a syphilitic old British man would try to pronounce a simple Ze as Tse.

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      4 years ago

      TIL there's an actual system behind the idiotic romanization of Chinese words and names. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.

      • skeletorsass [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Even worse are names which use obscure system or different name like "Chiang Kai-shek" for Jiang Jieshi.