Comments on: The father of pinyin…. http://mandarinscholarship.com/2008/05/11/the-inventor-of-pinyin/ Studying Chinese in Taipei, Taiwan Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:51:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: markiel http://mandarinscholarship.com/2008/05/11/the-inventor-of-pinyin/comment-page-1/#comment-101 markiel Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:21:00 +0000 http://mandarinscholarship.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-101 This beautiful old gentleman, Zhou Youguang, at a hundred and two, is an inspiration not only to the Chinese but also many in the West like myself, today. He is self-effacing, good humoured and thoughtful: "I am the 'son' of pin yin", alluding to the previous inferior Wade Giles and other systems as well as the influence that his invention had on his own life. That life traversed the Cultural Revolution and so much more. China owes, in large measure, its increasing literacy rate to him. Indeed, though I have studied Mandarin Chinese for twenty years now, I can't imagine how I would have done it at the beginning without Mr Zhou's pinyin. P.S. There is an error in the second character of Mr Zhou's name on the tube site. His name is "you" meaning 'friend' not "you" meaning 'have'. I was a little disappointed that such a great man's name could be misrepresented. As this site did not interface with my Mandarin writing software, if have had to write it in English. Mark P.S. This has been resubmitted by me after seeing some typing errors: "typos" This beautiful old gentleman, Zhou Youguang, at a hundred and two, is an inspiration not only to the Chinese but also many in the West like myself, today. He is self-effacing, good humoured and thoughtful: “I am the ’son’ of pin yin”, alluding to the previous inferior Wade Giles and other systems as well as the influence that his invention had on his own life. That life traversed the Cultural Revolution and so much more. China owes, in large measure, its increasing literacy rate to him. Indeed, though I have studied Mandarin Chinese for twenty years now, I can’t imagine how I would have done it at the beginning without Mr Zhou’s pinyin.

P.S. There is an error in the second character of Mr Zhou’s name on the tube site. His name is “you” meaning ‘friend’ not “you” meaning ‘have’. I was a little disappointed that such a great man’s name could be misrepresented.

As this site did not interface with my Mandarin writing software, if have had to write it in English.

Mark

P.S. This has been resubmitted by me after seeing some typing errors: “typos”

]]> By: markiel http://mandarinscholarship.com/2008/05/11/the-inventor-of-pinyin/comment-page-1/#comment-100 markiel Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:17:22 +0000 http://mandarinscholarship.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-100 This beautiful old gentleman, Zhou Youguang, at a hundred and two, is an inspiration not only to the Chinese but also to many in the West like myself, today. He is self-effacing, good humoured and thoughtful: "I am the 'son' of pin yin", alluding to the previous inferiou Wade Giles and other systems as well as the influence that his invention had on his own life. That life traversed the cultural revolution and so much more. China owes, in large measure, its increassing literacy rate to him. Indeed, though I have studied Mandarin Chinese for twenty years now, I can't imagine how I would have done it at the begining without Mr Zhou's pinyin. P.S. There is an error in the second character of Mr Zhou's name on the Utube site. His name is "you" meaning 'friend' not "you" meaning 'have'. I was a little disappointed that such a great man's name could be misrepresented. As this site did not interface with my Mandarin writing software, if have had to write it in English. Mark This beautiful old gentleman, Zhou Youguang, at a hundred and two, is an inspiration not only to the Chinese but also to many in the West like myself, today. He is self-effacing, good humoured and thoughtful: “I am the ’son’ of pin yin”, alluding to the previous inferiou Wade Giles and other systems as well as the influence that his invention had on his own life. That life traversed the cultural revolution and so much more. China owes, in large measure, its increassing literacy rate to him. Indeed, though I have studied Mandarin Chinese for twenty years now, I can’t imagine how I would have done it at the begining without Mr Zhou’s pinyin.

P.S. There is an error in the second character of Mr Zhou’s name on the Utube site. His name is “you” meaning ‘friend’ not “you” meaning ‘have’. I was a little disappointed that such a great man’s name could be misrepresented.

As this site did not interface with my Mandarin writing software, if have had to write it in English.

Mark

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