Re: Bopomofo and pinyin

Raymond Brown wrote:

> I like GR's aim of indicating tone in the actual spelling, but the way it's
> done seems unnecessarily complicated to me.
Hoo hah.

> I also think it a weakness that PY imports the double use of {h} which,
> thanks to the Norman scribes, we have inherited in English, namely: as a
> consonant (in Mandarin [x]), and as a consonant modifier (in Mandarin to
> mark the voicless retroflex {ch}, {zh} and {sh} - the voiced {r} not
> 'needing' the modifier).
The advantage of ch, sh, zh is that many non-Beijing dialects of Mandarin
pronounce these identically to c, s, z.

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