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Re: Bopomofo and pinyin

From:John Fisher <john@...>
Date:Thursday, January 20, 2000, 20:01
In message <38874D8F.7FF65E24@...>, John Cowan
<jcowan@...> writes
>FFlores wrote:
>> So far I've seen two styles: the one used in the book, >> where the name of China is written "Junggwo", > >That is probably Yale, a system I don't know.
I checked - that is how it's written in Yale. But if Pablo made a small mistake and it was actually "Jonggwo", then it could be Gwoyeu Romatzyh, which is an older system than Yale, I think, and Pablo said these papers were old... -- John Fisher john@drummond.demon.co.uk johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk Elet Anta website: http://www.drummond.demon.co.uk/anta/ Drummond ro cleshfan merec; fanye litoc, inye litoc