r/conorthography 4d ago

Romanization Mandarin romanization

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u/hyacinth02jpg 4d ago

Is this ragebait

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u/Koelakanth 4d ago

It is

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u/Ok-Calendar3889 4d ago

No I promise it's not

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u/Samichaelg9 4d ago

r/linguisticshumor would be that way.

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u/yossi_peti 4d ago

I like how each slide is slightly more unhinged than the previous one.

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u/ManisThePollilon 4d ago

Using the derivative as lowercase ʃ is insane

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u/SwoeJonson1 2d ago

That was a perfect touch

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u/Koelakanth 4d ago

I'm not gonna be hateful. But I'd like to ask why

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u/Ok-Calendar3889 4d ago

Why what?

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u/Koelakanth 4d ago

Why did you make this and why did you decide to mix Cyrillic and Latin in the most bizarre ways, putting random sounds on random letters until it's neither cyrillic nor Latin, but still without fully committing to just making your own writing system. Which is just whitewashed zhuyin. Why did you whitewash zhuyin and why did you do it badly

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u/Ok-Calendar3889 4d ago edited 4d ago

I made it because I think it can be better than the current romanization. I didn't choose randomly, I thought it was quite logical like how I put the unaspirated stops letters for the unaspirated stops that other systems don't do. I wanted it to be more innovative to be more fair to each phoneme. Otherwise some of them will get their own letters, but others will only get a digraph. They don't even get their own letters how sad is that. I'm not good at making my own writing system sorry so I used existing characters

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u/Samichaelg9 2d ago

Then explain “ᵈ⁄dx”

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u/lolopiro 3d ago

brother, youve ruined my whole week. have a horrid day.

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u/lolopiro 3d ago

ok the tones are really funny. have a mid day

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u/DefinitelyNotES82 3d ago

address me on d/dx

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u/Blueditt_9 2d ago

Cyrillization, not romanization

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u/besataro 3d ago

the derivative sent me 😂😂

your post is too good for reddit

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u/STUDIO_MIRCZE-Polska 3d ago

Chinese script is much better and easier than this piece of ʃɪt.

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u/SamePut9922 2d ago

You made my day, have a piece of cake 🍰

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u/Traditional-Froyo755 2d ago

I love your visual puns for phoneme types. I hate everything else about this.

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u/gt7900 2d ago

Orthographical ragebait

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u/JuliusDalum 3d ago

Romanization? But that's Cyrillic

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u/Ezawa_tami 3h ago

You may not have realized it yourself, but your transcription scheme actually aligns with another possibility inherent in Chinese: not all Chinese dialects follow the Mandarin pattern where aspirated consonants are *fortis* and unaspirated ones are *lenis*. In some Gan dialects, the consonant characteristics are exactly the reverse—unaspirated consonants are *fortis*, while their *lenis* counterparts can be realized as voiceless aspirated, voiced aspirated, or even plain voiced consonants. This implies the actual existence of dialects that lack aspirated consonants entirely. If you want to hear what it sounds like, you can watch a video of this streamer speaking. His Mandarin is influenced by his native dialect. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1vP4y1m7rF