Re: CHAT: Pinyin Reformed (Re: John Cowan mangles Pinyin again)

"Daniel A. Wier" wrote:

> >The objection here is that ' is used in all (except Yale?) romanizations
> >to divide syllables when the "natural" division is wrong,
> >thus Chang'an to avoid reading Chan'gan, or Xi'an to avoid reading Xian.
>
> Oh, sorry; I was thinking in terms of Pinyin.
Pinyin, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, and W-G all use the apostrophe as outlined
above.  I'm not sure whether Yale does so or not.  (W-G also uses
the hyphen in this function sometimes.)

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