The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What truths do we know about Mandarin and learning Mandarin? If we know some of these truths, what are we going to do about it?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How do some nitpick about Pīnyīn while ignoring a huge issue about characters?
Screenshot of “jìjiào” in 1 Co. 13:5 (nwtsty, CHS+Pīnyīn WOL)
The problem is not that Pīnyīn is like training wheels, because Pīnyīn is actually like regular wheels. The real problem is that characters are like square wheels!
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From today's daily text: "At times, it must have taken real courage for a Nazirite to stick to his vow and stand out as different." With the Chinese world's chauvinistic prejudice against _Pīnyīn_, it can take courage to keep using it. Keep doing what helps you serve Jehovah better.
— tiandi, Links News (@tiandilinksnews.bsky.social) January 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can we talk in Mandarin about arguing? Should we use the same language to describe how Jesus spoke with the Pharisees, etc.?
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Similarly, the Pharisees opposed Jesus. They couldn’t handle the truth because the truth threatened their status, which was what they cared about most. https://t.co/funMK1Nzw7
— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) April 24, 2024
As Jehovah’s dedicated people in a Chinese language field, our first priority should always be to serve Jehovah in the best way possible. We should not just be faithful adherents of the human cultural traditions of the Chinese world.
— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) February 6, 2024
Let us be Christians, not Chinese Pharisees! pic.twitter.com/sHv7QzbYJM
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
In the Mandarin field, should we be afraid of standing out because of using Pīnyīn?
In many workplaces, there are the Big Cheeses who focus on getting the glory, and there are the ones who are actually good at doing the work.
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) November 2, 2023
In the work of writing Mandarin, characters are like those Big Cheeses, & _Pīnyīn_ is like those who are actually good at doing the work. pic.twitter.com/98m5B7lEou
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Readiness to follow the Japanese emperor & armed forces during World War II:
— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) October 11, 2023
BAD
Readiness to follow Jehovah and his organization:
GOOD
Readiness to follow human traditions like those involving Chinese characters:
BAD
Readiness to use new, better ways to serve God:
GOOD pic.twitter.com/pekFXSpeAJ
