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Originally Posted by dwrixon Well, I am sorry but I totally disagree with you. Yes, IDN will bring SEO advantages and that is what will kill of most Latin dot coms in China. Pinyin will soon disappear altogether. It is not chosen medium for the Chinese and there seems to be a lot of ambiguity in translations, which will cause phishing, unless you are talking about that written in phonetic characters and then you are straight back to IDN anyway.
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Pinyin will soon disappear altogether -> i believe that won't happen in the near future, i've spoken to one or two prc friends on this issue, and pinyin is still preferred by many chinese users.
I think the reason why pinyin is so entrenched is because, many chinese kids are taught pinyin (or abc) in kindergarden, and then learn how to recognize chinese phrases using pinyin. Pinyin is not merely romanization.
Pinyin is like Hangul for China, although Koreans have practically banished 'Chinese characters' by replacing Hanja with Hangul after the Korean war, whereas pinyin plays a learning and international role for chinese.