“Pīnyīn Was Plan A” Now Available as an Article on 3lines.org
The article “Pīnyīn Was Plan A” is now available to be read on 3lines.org. This is a revised version of the tiandi.info post of the same name. Here is the link:
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(If you’re already on the 3lines.org site, you can find this article in the folder Misc ▶ Articles.)
The subject of Pīnyīn and the Chinese characters may be one of the most important subjects I have ever written about, since it deals with facing the most difficult fundamental aspect of the Mandarin language, the language that is the very reason that the Mandarin field exists. This article contains much of the fruitage of months of research and analysis regarding this subject, and I highly recommend that anyone in or interested in the Mandarin field read it. Please feel free to pass on the information about this article to any Witness you know who fits that description. (Many of the principles discussed in this article apply to the Cantonese field as well, which is evidently consolidating on the Sidney Lau system as the romanization system of choice.)
