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Re:Zhou Youguang, creator of the Pinyin writing system, has ... by jason_slack on Saturday January 14, 2017 @09:48AM (#13398580)
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...

Fascinating. Thank you for the link.

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Re:Zhou Youguang, creator of the Pinyin writing system, has ... by FabHK on Saturday January 14, 2017 @02:25PM (#13400063)
It is fascinating, and a cute curiosity, but not a serious argument for the necessity of characters as opposed to an alphabetic writing system.
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