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New Tongyong Pinyin System Introduced ~ TC Lin
TAIPEI | Ywu Bwo-chyuan, inventor of Tongyong Pinyin, held a press conference this morning to announce the latest iteration of his system, which was recently chosen by a committee, headed by Ywu, to objectively pick a romanization system for Taiwan. Ywu "struggled with the decision", but finally his own system won him over, causing him to pick it over the international United Nations standard Hanyu Pinyin.
The new system, according to Ywu, includes changes to make the differences between it and the system everyone else uses stand out. "This will make sure everyone knows what Taiwan is saying is different than what China is saying, even if no one knows what Taiwan is saying."
"They'll know simply from the fact that they are listening to gibberish that it must be Taiwan," he continued.
The new changes to the system including adding the letters "w", "y" and "b" to every 6th words, except on Tuesday and lunar holidays, when the letters "t", "r" and a sideways "h" Ywu calls "The Taiwan letter" will be inserted into every 3rd word, not counting the words "Lemon", "Pile", "Moose" and "Englebert Humperdink".
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