@TerynceTeaches
@MarkHanson
@academicchatter
I have not thought too much about the citation as more to do with identification difficulty I usually have when reading multiple #Hanzi names, becus I didnot learn to use romanised #pinyin so I even struggle to pronounce them, but it become alot easier when I see the Hanzi charaters, but I do think for Hanzi names it may be desirable to cite at full instead of just surname, for example KFChen et al instead of Chen et al?

@CaffeineSam
The #pinyin system includes a couple of arbitrary letter assignments (like the x and c), but it’s quite efficient and consistent. No need to resort to 3- or 4-letter combinations that still don’t capture the right phoneme. And where letters don’t match their English use, they often do match another language’s, e.g. the z is a German z (dz). If you’re drawing up a new phonetic system, English spelling (notoriously varied inconsistent) is a terrible place to start.

#duolingo finally added #pinyin & #tone lessons. Time to master this!

So… I watched @thelinuxEXP tier list ranking video, and concluded that Fedora + KDE Plasma would be my best choice. Anyone knows how to properly get pinyin (Chinese) input on Fedora KDE ? I managed to get iBus input method but when I press Super+Space the input method doesn’t toggle between Inteligent Pinyin and the regular English input… incredible that such a feature is not working out of the box in one click… it’s Chinese, not some obscure language.
#linux #fedora #kde #pinyin #help #input

Interesting summary of the history of pinyin, the system for rendering Chinese in the Latin alphabet. 9 minutes. https://thechinaproject.com/2023/02/08/the-birth-of-pinyin/
#pinyin #TheChinaProject #ThisWeekInChinasHistory #JamesCarter

@Thomashegna The characters are definitely 龙头 (lóng tóu). I'm absolutely not fluent in #Mandarin or #Pinyin aka #SimplifiedChinese but maybe through the magic of hashtags we can find someone who is.... (I just know too many words for "dragon", lol). #help

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Zhou Youguang #周有光 (1906–2017), #economist, #linguist, and 'father of #Pinyin' #漢語拼音 之父, a system of #Romanisation for #Mandarin #Chinese, now recognised as the most common standard. #ChineseLinguistics #ChineseEconomics

Is anyone working on a Chinese/Mandarin/Pinyin keyboard for #grapheneos ?

#opensource #keyboard #mobile #chinese #Hanyu #hanyupinyin #pinyin #mandarin #simplifiedchinese #android

[... Die #Hausarbeit habe ich #2011 zu #schreiben begonnen und - ich müsste jetzt nachgucken - bis #2016 abgeschlossen und an die die damalige #Bundesregierung #geschickt...#danach #war #nichts #mehr #wie #vorher... ich lenkte meine #Aufmerksamkeit #Richtung #China ...] [#CRISPR_rEvolution]

Triaden (chinesisch 三合會 / 三合会, #Pinyin #Sānhéhuì – „#Gesellschaft der #Triaden, ... Dreieck für „Himmel, Erde und Menschheit“, bezeichnete Vereinigungen im Bereich der organisierten Kriminalität,
#weedmob

Why is #Pinyin so weird? Why did they pick letters that most European-language-speakers would not pronounce at all like their intended sound? Like, "zh" for ⟨ʈ͡ʂ⟩ or "q" for ⟨t͡ɕ⟩, c'mon, why those Roman letters?

I get you don't have the sounds in English or other European languages but why not just approximate with "ts" or "ch" or something?