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From: linx0021@gold.tc.umn.edu (Tsangpuu Lin)
Subject: Re: Taiwanese Modern Spelling System (TMSS)
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This is a beautiful flame-bait.


isexiem@leonis.nus.sg (Xie Min (Dr)) writes:

>Hung Jung Lu (hlu@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
>: Sometime ago I posted an article on the romanization scheme for Hoklo
>: Taiwanese language. Now I will post yet another widely-used scheme.

>(stuff deleted)

>what's all about? why make everything so complicated?

>I am not sure if you are aware of Pinyin system widely used
>in Mainland China and other South East Asian countries
>(such as Singapore and Malaysia)...

>Also, not sure what you mean by Taiwanese... If you do not
>want to call it Chinese, please call it Mandarin (so is it calles
>here). Taiwanese, for most people, is the dialect used by
>native Taiwanese  (similar to the language Indians speak in US).

>You may be interested in cross-posting to soc.culture.china
>and soc.culture.singapore. At our university, there is a big
>department of Chinese Language interested in this...
