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| audiophile Groupie United States Joined 5117 days ago 44 posts - 81 votes  Studies: French | Message 41 of 41 09 June 2011 at 6:29pm | IP Logged |
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>otherwise we wouldn't see both "Hong Kong" and "Hongkong"
That's right. It would be very difficult even for the native Chinese speakers to remember those together vs no-together spelling rules. In addition, many Chinese people don't have a perfect Mandarin pronunciation. So it would be a nightmare if they use Romanized Pinyin only for written communication (especially for those people from Hongkong/Canton trying to write Mandarin in Pinyin - or vise versa). Maybe that is why Vietnamese opt for keeping each word separate to avoid this potential inconsistent grouping problem. Edited by audiophile on 09 June 2011 at 6:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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