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From: scchih@tucson.princeton.edu (Sheng-chang Chih)
Subject: Re: Pinyin or When to call "Game over, man!"
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In article <38rndm$g7f@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> chiu@cs.nyu.edu (Jen-Lung Chiu) writes:
>In article <38qa1o$3gl@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU> hlu@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Hung J Lu) writes:
>>
>>Pinyin or When to call "Game over, man!" [1]
>>=======================================
>>
>>OK, so there are many many romanization schemes for Chinese
>>languages/dialects. Since I only know Hoklo and Mandarin,
>>I will only discuss these two here. (Why is it that no
>>one ever post anything on Hakka? Are all the Hakka speakers
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>dead or what? Sorry for my expression, but I am fed up
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>with the silent Hakka people.) Let us focus on the following
>>romanization schemes.
>
>Be carefule of your language. Do you need to write down this sentence to
>offend the whole Hakka group? If not, why write it down?
>
>I don't see any connection of this sentence with your article. Keeping
>silence does not mean we are "dead", otherwise there are a lot of "dead"
>people who only read netnews regularly.
>
>Jen-Lung Chiu.

Silence? Come on? How do you tell just from the name? Almost all Taiwanese
spell their name in English by Wade-Giles system, (over 90/100, I guess,
though most of you perhaps don't know) which is based upon on Madarin. So
how could you tell? If you are so sure, would you please tell me whether
the guy behind the name "Wang Chih-chung" is a Hoklo or Hakka or Wai-sheng
jen or an aboriginal? Perhaps you don't even know how to pronounce it. 

Chih Sheng-chang
Princeton Univ.
New Jersey
