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To: Olog-hai
I’m still waiting for the liberal media to start calling it “Xianggang”, which is the Mandarin name

And then the media will gaslight us and tell us that they're using the historically correct version that's more inclusive to all who live there...or something like that.

32 posted on 02/28/2022 5:44:36 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Lou L
The media’s switchover from using Wade-Giles transliteration to Hanyu Pinyin (specific to Mandarin, and approved by the CCP) was quiet and largely not noticed except by those paying attention.

Time Magazine’s 1979 Man of the Year edition featuring Deng Xiaoping was still using Wade-Giles. (I sometimes refer to the current Chinese dictator as “Hsi Chin-p’ing” too, for nostalgia’s sake.)


49 posted on 02/28/2022 6:02:25 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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