MEotW: zìdà

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• zìdà

In the Mandarin field, how can we avoid being inferior B players or unserious tourists?

China relegating _Pīnyīn_ to being just a pronunciation aid for characters is like a company hiring a talented A player executive and then making that person just get coffee for the CEO, because the established power base’s top priority is to preserve itself—B players in action. https://t.co/fNHsBWEsWO

— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) May 15, 2024

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What’s Possible According to First Principles?

To serve Jehovah in the best way possible, look beyond mere human tradition, the way people have “always” done things—look for what is possible according to the first principles of this universe that Jehovah created.

That is the design approach behind _Pīnyīn_ Plus material.

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) June 2, 2022

“First Principles Thinking (FPT) is starting from unequivocal base facts and building up toward some vision or explanation of reality. It involves reasoning by deduction rather than by analogy or appeal to authority.” (source)