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Brave New Chinese Manifesto: Debuting revolutionary new phonetic Chinese scripts and input methods that will make Chinese much easier to learn

Author Simon Shyu
Publisher BookSurge Publishing
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Author(s)Simon Shyu
ISBN / ASIN1439229783
ISBN-139781439229781
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Chinese had no phonetic symbols. In 1914 Bopomofo was introduced to represent 38 sound elements and 5 tones of Chinese. It's great, yet non-Roman. Later China adopted Pinyin that uses alphabets. But it's ill-designed and not compatible with English. Mr Simon, a Taiwanese, considered Pinyin an obstacle for Chinese to be a global language. He thus spent 6 years inventing a revolutionary system. It includes "Alphanumese - a one-symbol-one-sound phonetic key system using alphanumerical keys, Abcedese - a new Romanization method fully compatible with English phonics, Dualese - best of both (ideographic and phonetic) worlds, Namesake Input Method that allows Chinese and English to be typed without mode change, 24-key super fast input method that does keyboard/keypad/cellphone input & hand signs, a special encoding that overcomes homograph problem and achieves error-free text-to-speech". This book writes about those breakthrough inventions and Simon's incredible saga of seeking and discovery.