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Date Posted: 21:30:36 06/26/05 Sun
The Taiwan goverment adopted a Tong Yong Pin Yin or the Taiwan romanization system but it is understood by very few people outside of Taiwan and even on Taiwan no one seems to know how to use it. Basically it is a mixture zhuyin, Wade-Giles, MPS-2, hanyu pinyin, Yale pinyin systems with a bit of Taiwanese thrown in just to make it totally useless.
注音符號, aka Mandarin Phonetic Symbols (MPS or Bo Po Mo Fo), used in Taiwan
漢語拼音, aka Han Yu Pinyin (Hanyu), romanization used in Mainland China
通用拼音, aka Tong Yong Pinyin (Tongyong), romanization in some use in Taiwan
Taipei city abandoned this idiotic Tong Yong (Taiwan) Pin Yin as proposed by the idiotic central govermnet on Taiwan for the Hanyu Pinyin used by Chinese speaking world outside of Taiwan.
Reports from Taichung state that Taichung has abandoned romanization and possibly street signs all together in favor of the "get lost or get out you dirty foreigner" system.
All other major metropolitan areas use whichever system they feel like using that day.
In the end the romanization program got caught up in the "localization movement" (otherwise known as cultural purification) the current government is attempting to implement to purify Taiwanese culture.
The stated purpose of the Pin Yin system on Taiwan is to make the language more understandable and usuable by visitors but in the end it has had the opposite effect. As usual the idiotic occupational government on Taiwan is totally ineffective and possibly counterproductive.
I suspect the Taiwan Cultural Police have been going around taking down signs that have illegal romanization as a means of perpetuating the cultural purity as proposed by the current idiotic government on Taiwan.
Welcome to Taiwan!
A.
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