Comments on: Recommended website #3: Pinyin.info http://blog.taiwan-guide.org/2006/10/recommended-website-3-pinyininfo/ commentary on all things Taiwanese -- Taichung, Taiwan Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:20:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark http://blog.taiwan-guide.org/2006/10/recommended-website-3-pinyininfo/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Mark Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:00:23 +0000 http://blog.taiwan-guide.org/2006/10/recommended-website-3-pinyininfo/#comment-254 Interesting... I found a different side to be controversial. Pretty much all of the readings he puts up are from De Francis and a number of other academics from an extreme anti-character group. His opinions are clearly well informed, but he keeps saying things like "as long as Chinese characters are the sole accepted script for the vast majority of people in China, they'll have terrible illiteracy problems[sic]". He also seems quite sure that the Japanese and Taiwanese have a lot of literacy problems, too. It's clear that he wants to see <i>Chinese</i> people using <i>our</i> orthography to write <i>their</i> language. And <b>that</b> is the part of his site I found controversial. That some assertions about post WWII Japanese Ocupation history. http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/ideographic_myth.html http://pinyin.info/news/2006/chinese-literacy/ http://pinyin.info/news/2006/more-claims-on-eliminating-illiteracy-in-china/ http://pinyin.info/news/2006/campaign-poster-zhuyin-and-the-color-purple/ Interesting… I found a different side to be controversial. Pretty much all of the readings he puts up are from De Francis and a number of other academics from an extreme anti-character group.

His opinions are clearly well informed, but he keeps saying things like “as long as Chinese characters are the sole accepted script for the vast majority of people in China, they’ll have terrible illiteracy problems[sic]“. He also seems quite sure that the Japanese and Taiwanese have a lot of literacy problems, too. It’s clear that he wants to see Chinese people using our orthography to write their language. And that is the part of his site I found controversial. That some assertions about post WWII Japanese Ocupation history.

http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/ideographic_myth.html
http://pinyin.info/news/2006/chinese-literacy/
http://pinyin.info/news/2006/more-claims-on-eliminating-illiteracy-in-china/
http://pinyin.info/news/2006/campaign-poster-zhuyin-and-the-color-purple/

]]> By: Charlie http://blog.taiwan-guide.org/2006/10/recommended-website-3-pinyininfo/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Charlie Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:55:59 +0000 http://blog.taiwan-guide.org/2006/10/recommended-website-3-pinyininfo/#comment-251 Yes, I also think that pinyin.info has a controversial side, speciall against bopomofo, Taiwan and some taiwanese romanization issues, I recognize that pinyin is useful, but if taiwanese use bomopofo is totally correct, "when in Rome, do as romans do"... See Ya Yes, I also think that pinyin.info has a controversial side, speciall against bopomofo, Taiwan and some taiwanese romanization issues, I recognize that pinyin is useful, but if taiwanese use bomopofo is totally correct, “when in Rome, do as romans do”…

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