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Tonally Orthographic Pinyin
By Confused Laowai | Date: January 12th, 2012 | Category: Language
I found out this really cool way to write Pinyin while browsing the Chinese Stack Exchange (ps. which you guys must join!). It’s called Tonally Orthographic Pinyin. Its main aim is to make tone marks redundant. The creator said this: The TOP system is redundantly marked for tones: with colors, with capital and small letters, and with the standard Hanyu Pinyin tone marks. So, where you would get “Nǐ huì shuō yīngwén ma?” in TOP [...]
