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Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon by Haydos585x2 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:02PM (#13172571)
David Moser wrote an essay telling people to focus more on Pinyin and not stress about characters until much later. I totally agree with him. Maybe one day the CCP will force everyone to Pinyin and I can finally read without having to look up half a sentence.

http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

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Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon by lacampbell on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @08:09PM (#13172936)
I'll put in a vote for Zhuyin:

- more consistent (no confusing between the two sounds for "u" for example).

- better IMEs - you can filter characters by tone, impossible to do with Google Pinyin for example.

- can be used to type Simplified and Traditional

- no interference/preconceptions from other languages written in the latin alphabet.

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Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon by smallnamespace on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @08:11PM (#13172943)
Moving everything to pinyin probably would introduce a different set of difficulties for a foreigner: while a native Chinese speaker knows the spoken language and context well enough to disambiguate homophones, it's unlikely a Chinese learner would have the same ability.
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