East Asian romanization Re: Petition to UN on Abolishment of Traditional Chinese in 2008

Franz Gnaedinger wrote:

Dylan, to make it easier for me: are you favoring the simplified
Chinese writing, or are you an opponent? I don't quite see what
side you are on. And a further question: wouldn't it be possible
to invent a Latin version of Chinese? For example like this. dao
for high pitched vowels (high a, high o), dAO for low pitched
vowels (low A, low O), daO for a dropping pitch (high a, low O),
dAo for an ascending pitch (low A, high o), or so. One might find
a better notation, for example smaller capitals for a level picture,
easier on the eye. I'd say the Latin alphabet could be used for
Greek: Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, polytropon ... (begin of the
Odyssey). Why not also for Chinese? while keeping the old,
traditional way of writing as it was? The new information
technologies can easily offer versions in boths forms, then,
new Latinized plus old traditional. I assume that also the UN
makes use of electronical storing of documents.

Are you really not aware that there has been an official PRC
romanization of Chinese for 50 years now, called pinyin? And that
Western scholars have used romanizations for a century and a half?

As for the use of letters to represent tones (albeit not capital vs.
lowercase), various systems have been proposed for Chinese over the
decades. Other tone languages in Southeast Asia, such as Hmong, have
that kind of romanization, and it's very popular.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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