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audiophile
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Studies: French

 
 Message 41 of 41
09 June 2011 at 6:29pm | IP Logged 
>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


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