{"id":527,"date":"2006-09-29T17:51:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T09:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/tone-marks-on-signage-a-debate\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T09:51:39","slug":"tone-marks-on-signage-a-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/tone-marks-on-signage-a-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"tone marks on signage: a debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the &#8220;dueling laowai&#8221; debate over whether to use tone marks on street signs in Taiwan. This is a series of pieces written by Mark of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toshuo.com\/\">Doubting to Shuo<\/a> and Prince Roy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeroy.org\/\">Prince Roy&#8217;s Realm<\/a>. Unfortunately, some of the comments have gone off into the land of myths and shadows, and I just don&#8217;t have the time or the energy to deal with all of that now. But the basics of the tone-mark debate are well worth reading. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>part 1: <a href=\"http:\/\/toshuo.com\/2006\/dueling-laowai-tone-marks-on-roadsigns-part-1\/\">Mark writes in favor of using tone marks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>part 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeroy.org\/?p=410\">Prince Roy writes against adding tone marks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>part 3: <a href=\"http:\/\/toshuo.com\/2006\/dueling-laowai-tone-marks-on-roadsigns-part-3\/\">Mark responds to Prince Roy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>part 4: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeroy.org\/?p=413\">Prince Roy responds to Mark<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the &#8220;dueling laowai&#8221; debate over whether to use tone marks on street signs in Taiwan. This is a series of pieces written by Mark of Doubting to Shuo and Prince Roy of Prince Roy&#8217;s Realm. Unfortunately, some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/tone-marks-on-signage-a-debate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,41,32,20,19,48,24,3,105,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-english","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-signage","category-taipei","category-taiwan","category-tone-marks","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}