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Comment on meeting Zhou Youguang by Pinyin Info

Pinyin Info — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:55:58 +0000

He speaks English very well, as I can testify from personal experience. (We switched back and forth between English and Mandarin in our conversation.) He likely knows several other languages too.

Comment on meeting Zhou Youguang by Peregrinus

Peregrinus — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:27:33 +0000

Can Zhou Youguang speak English or any other languages? Would be most interested in knowing.

Comment on New database of cross-strait differences in Mandarin goes online by Lu

Lu — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:22:29 +0000

When I saw that piece of news on Ma Yingjiu explaining about the different usages, I sniggered and then told my roommate at work (in Beijing) what the story was about. She sniggered even more. Turns out chui laba can also very much mean blowjob on the mainland.

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by Pinyin Info

Pinyin Info — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:07:55 +0000

Guys, the site got hacked and the blog's encoding has been FUBAR ever since. If anyone knows how to fix it, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by Erik

Erik — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:05:49 +0000

Yeah me too, Jens. I don’t have any problem viewing cn or jp text on any other site.

Comment on Taiwan’s first written language — in romanization by Benedict Bernabe

Benedict Bernabe — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:09:49 +0000

It has elements similar to Philippine languages, especially those spoke in northern highland Philippines (Cordilleras) and the islands of Batanes. I definitely recognised “tagatimog” which means “someone from the south” in the Tagalog language, and I saw the character for south in the pinyin/Mandarin transliteration. Maybe it’s worth looking into the Philippine languages to fully decipher the manuscripts.

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by Alan

Alan — Sun, 06 May 2012 06:21:57 +0000

I have a problem displaying the Chinese text as well….

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by iamjohnny

iamjohnny — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:07:41 +0000

I can’t read all the characters, neither.
I tried Unicode(UTF-8), Unicode(UTF-16LE), Big5, Big5-HKSCS, GBK, and GB18030 and the problems remains
Can anyone help me?

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by Jens

Jens — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:00:15 +0000

I am having serious charset problems here. Normally I don’t have any problems displaying Chinese text.

Comment on How to create Hanyu Pinyin subtitles by Micah

Micah — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:26:26 +0000

http://mandarinuncut.com/chinese-subtitles/chinese-english-subtitles-for-world-without-thieves/
^ “A World Without Thieves”
^ Chinese, Pinyin, Literal English, English Meaning

Any others?

Comment on How to create Hanyu Pinyin subtitles by Micah

Micah — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:46:38 +0000

I used an online converter found in this website’s “Tools” link in order to convert characters into Unicode. Key Chinese only works for 30 days. Then what? How do I use Wenlin to convert unicode into parsed Pinyin? Is there any other website/program that can create parsed pinyin?

Comment on How to create Hanyu Pinyin subtitles by Micah

Micah — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:46:36 +0000

I have been living in Taiwan for the past 7 months and have become increasingly DESPERATE to watch movies with subtitles that I can actually read! Is there ANYBODY who can give me any?
Every time I try to follow some guide online, I waste several hours, get really stressed out, and quit. PLEASE: If anybody has a DVD with Hanyu Pinyin subtitles, I REALLY, REALLY WANT IT!
I’m so desperate at this point that I’d be perfectly willing to PAY YOU for a good one!!

Comment on Pinyin sort order by Brother William

Brother William — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:34:00 +0000

everything is okay except the tonal marks. you mean hackers have something against tonal marks?

Comment on Pinyin sort order by Brother William

Brother William — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:27:11 +0000

my google Chrome browswer can’t detect which coding I should use in order to read the discussion and comments.
please let me know.thx!

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by THLam

THLam — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:24:38 +0000

Mr Zhou’s original script should read

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and the pinyin

Y?yán sh? rénlèi bié yú qínshòu,
wénzì sh? wénmíng bié yú y?mán,
jiàoyù sh? xi?njìn bié yú luòhòu.

Apart from careful proof-reading, the transcription errors could actually be avoided if one knows that a neat structure is usually preferred.