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contingenciesyesterday at 7:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Nice! Didn't know that. I wonder if they Romanized transliterated 'Vissarionovich' as a test case. Regardless, with pinyin they certainly did a better job than the Taiwanese!

Pretty chilling evidence for the emergence of post-revolution Mandarin as newspeak, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak


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justaboutanyoneyesterday at 9:56 PM

While pinyin might be "better", there's still a lot of room for something better than it