----- Original Message -----
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: Chinese Dialect Question
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:56:39PM -0400, JR wrote:
> > on 9/30/03 9:20 PM, H. S. Teoh at hsteoh@QUICKFUR.ATH.CX wrote:
> [snip]
> > > This is one of the things that turn me off about Pinyin.
> >
> > Am I the only one who likes it? It has a very distinctive look, and in
some
> > ways it's very well designed, IMHO. And you do get used to it after a
little
> > while. It's easier than memorizing thousands of hanzi anyway.
>
> To me, if you care about distinctive look, learn hanzi. :-) Romanization
> should at least not deliberately be contrary to common Western phonetic
> values for the letters.
You mean English phonetic values? Thare really aren't that many common
western phonetic values. Maybe some of the stops are near-universal, but I
think that's about it.