Re: Bopomofo and pinyin

From: "John Cowan"

> How's this for pinyin with tonal spellings?  Follow each syllable
> with the requisite number of v's (the only Latin letter not use
> in pinyin) to indicate the tone, thus mav, mavv, mavvv, mavvvv.
As others have mentioned, that could get a bit unwieldy. Would you want to
read a whole page of that?:

Wovvv zaivvvv Zhongvguovv davvvvluvvvv zhuvvvv le sivvvv nianvv, zaivvvv
Taivvwanv zhuvvvv le qiv nianvv.

Gongvvvvchanvvvzhuvvvyivvvv wanvvvvsuivvvv! (loses some of its revolutionary
fervor, doesn't it?).

I'm not opposed to tonal spelling; if someone came up with a cool system,
I'd hop aboard. On the other hand, I don't mind diacritics either; let
Anglophones get a clue.

Kou