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Old 11-17-2005, 02:39 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: Speedboat to China - a challenge to conventional domainer thinking

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Originally Posted by vtrader
I've lived in Asia almost all my life and speak Chinese. I can assure you that mainland Chinese find it much more natural to communicate in chinese characters than pinyin. Have you ever looked for directions in Shanghai with an address scribbled in pinyin? Good luck with that ;-)
And just how many website are in pinyin? If you do a Google search, then convert pinyin to Chinese characters and repeat to get a quotient, it will be a small fraction of 1%. Frankly, it is about as usefual as Esperanto, although that still has its adherents.

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