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thian_un

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Dec 02, 2007 20:39

Sigh. Apparently Wade-Giles is dead.

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batmiles December 3 2007, 03:15:01 UTC

Are you actually talking about a Romanization system?

Wiki'd! just_hsut_me December 3 2007, 04:41:24 UTC

Thomas Wade died in 1895. Herbert Giles died in 1935.

Where did you think Wade-Giles was living?

Re: Wiki'd! thian_un December 3 2007, 05:08:24 UTC

In my heart! It lives on in my heart!

Re: Wiki'd! batmiles December 3 2007, 08:06:57 UTC

Oh dear.

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lacrimawanders December 3 2007, 12:56:15 UTC

Wow, and when I initially read this, I was thinking this was a recent development. Like, "crap, first Evel Knieval and Wade-Giles? Where is all the excitement in our lives going??"

thian_un December 3 2007, 15:07:28 UTC

Hey, Wade-Giles was used in legitimage academic publications even less than ten years ago. (No matter that these were published by older scholars.) The fact that I have to use Pinyin now just because the commies have won makes it a recent development.

Heh, but that /was/ the effect I was going for.

lacrimawanders December 3 2007, 15:18:26 UTC

Okay, that makes more sense. I'll light an extremely tiny candle for Wade-Giles. But I probably won't make rice for it, because last time I did that I forgot about the rice until it evolved slightly further than rice is supposed to in the course of being eaten. I don't think this is because my grandmother did not finish dinner, but because her eating it somehow allowed it to take on new life...which is even damn scarier. And now I have to go to bed. Oh crap.

thian_un December 3 2007, 15:22:50 UTC

Ew. Zombie rice.
Go to bed, Reed.

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