At 11:34 AM -0500 10/3/01, Ayers, Mike wrote: > Pinyin still has similar problems (Xi'an/Xian), but, yes, they're >less frequent. Nevertheless, W-G had the advantage of presenting words that >were at least pronounceable (albeit pronounced incorrectly) by the average >English speaker, unlike Pinyin, which leaves us to puzzle out how to prounce >"qun" and "xue", while still mispronouncing "cun" and "peng". In my eyes, >it's a tie. >
Yeah, well, they're both based on the wrong dialect, anyway. Barbaric Mandarin-speaking northerners. :-) -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
