Re: Chinese Dialect Question

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> And *I* maintain that a digraph or trigraph should be used for this
> purpose. [ts_h] is not so exotic as to warrant the unusual use of _q_. For
> example, it could be represented as _tsh_ or _ts_. While I concede that a
> romanization is not primarily for foreigners' benefit, I see no reason to
> *deliberately* assign odd phonetic values to letters. I mean, V zvtug nf
> jryy jevgr Ratyvfu va EBG-13 naq fnl gurer'f abguvat jebat jvgu vg fvapr
> vg vf n Yngva-nycunorg ercerfragngvba bs Ratyvfu.
Well, I was honestly surprised that someone would be surprised that Pinyin
_q_ sounded like /tS/ in English :) (When I saw the original post, I was
wondering where he was going with it.)

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