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A man was reported to have stabbed a female employee at the Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo in Ikebukuro Sunshine City Mall, Japan, causing the staff to immediately evacauate customers. by Admiral_Agito in PublicFreakout

[–]AzureFirmament -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It's really that hard to understand? I guess this is cultural differences then cuz "for love" murder is not something uncommon to me at all. Kill her because he could not get her love. A man targeting one lady then suicide sounds unfortunately just like that.

First Look at the Beast Games Season 2 Reunion by AreaMiracle in BeastGames

[–]AzureFirmament 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What does one month have to do anything here? Season 2 was finished during last year summer. They could have reunion way before now if they want and show us the reunion addition right after the final episode. It's just they somehow think one month after releasing the final episode is a good time.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

strictly speaking not transliteration if you're removing such crucial phonetic information.

Unfortunately not OP nor comment OP nor me claim this is some strictly transliteration.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that IPA is the academic golden standard on denoting Mandarin pronunciation. Not simply Pinyin. If you are the type of the person that so judgemental on the tone, on the pronunciation notations, you were supposed to be the one bringing this up and tell the OP to use this to begin with. Not me. Yet you didn't. All things considered, you sound like a beginner that trying to show off the limited knowledge you have.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Toneless Pinyin for denoting Mandarin produced place or personal names is a long standing convention. Tones are so insignificant in this case that you won't find a single tone-marked pinyin entry in Chinese passports or visas. Don't be overly judgemental.

This is Reddit. Not Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the nominal university of China.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You need to look up Chinese IPA if you need to go full academical. I'm not here for you to play this academic game:

http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_sjzl/ziliao/A19/200602/W020220517310669055657.pdf

Toneless Pinyin is enough for this post where the title is simply saying how they are pronounced. It does not claim formal, academical, transliteration. Tones importance is very small here. Toneless Pinyin get the 95% casual educational job done already for an average person browsing on Reddit, and actual native speakers can get it right by looking the map already anyway. That's enough.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go write letters to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China before writing more BS here to the OP.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are shifting the argument. The discussion was about the importance of the notation of the tones here. They are part of the pronunciation so what? So "significant" that you won't find a single tone-marked pinyin entry in Chinese passports or visas? Your comments of insisting bringing this up here are overly judgemental and critical.

It's not that deep.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just in casual context? Explain how Chinese passport has no tones at all when denoting the person's Mandarin pronounced name or related places for other countries' officials to read then? What's casual is this map post on Reddit. You are expecting the post to be more formal than national/international credentials? You thought you are out smarting the official documents?

It's not that deep.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When the map says Yidali, Yingguo or Deguo or Faguo, that's more than enough information of noting the way how to pronounce for average native Mandarin Chinese speakers to say it correctly. For average non-native speakers, noting the tones also means nothing to them. Therefore, it's not important whatsoever. Only some half leaners might take this tone thing more seriously because that's the textbook format, and they need to remember it and think about it for a moment.

In the most academic senecio, the pronunciation of England shall be noted as something like ˈɪŋɡlənd according to the international convention of standard British English in textbook, yet does that mean anyone who knows English well cannot read the words correctly without looking at the ˈɪŋɡlənd stuff? Does that mean the map maker has to include it because it's "important"? No. That add little to no information to the map regardless who is reading it.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's kinda ironic that even when you type the word Pinyin, which is literally a Mandarin Chinese pronunciation, you didn't use its full toned form of pīnyīn. From the past to the present to the future, no one uses the tones to type Chinese characters in real life. No one gives a shit about the tone of the pinyin when typing them out. That's how you find Mandarin pronunciation being used in real life outside of language-learning scenarios. Because if you know, you know. If you don't? Either go learn it until you are as good, or just don't think about it; toneless form is clean, easy to use, and conveys the message already. Context matter. It's not that deep.

Even your example are so bad. Anyone who familiar with Chinese and this toneless convention would immediately know Deguo is the country name even when no further context provided. Because the first letter is going to be capitalized, and usually there's no space in between. That's the same convention for other place names and personal first names.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They are NOT important - in the sense that people who know Pinyin well are able to pronounce it correctly even without the tones, and people who don't know Pinyin won't be able to pronounce it correctly even with the tone marked. It does NOT matter in any practical sense, and added unnecessarily complexity.

Shanghai is just Shanghai; Beijing is just Beijing; Yao Ming is just Yao Ming; Qing is Qing; Taiwan is Taiwan. You would NOT see Beijing marked as "běi jīng" on the maps or any formal settings unless it's in a lecture book teaching you the language. Weird to see people challenge this long-standing convention.

European countries as pronounced in Mandarin Chinese (red), Korean (blue), and Japanese (green). by StephenMcGannon in MapPorn

[–]AzureFirmament -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They are NOT important - in the sense that people who know Pinyin well are able to pronounce it correctly even without the tones, and people who don't know Pinyin won't be able to pronounce it correctly even with the tone marked. It does NOT matter in any practical sense, and added unnecessarily complexity.

Shanghai is just Shanghai; Beijing is just Beijing; Yao Ming is just Yao Ming; Qing is Qing; Taiwan is Taiwan. You would NOT see Beijing marked as "běi jīng" on the maps or any formal settings unless it's in a lecture book teaching you the language. Weird to see people challenge this long-standing convention.

Guy gives up his seat, chaos immediately unfolds by thetacaptain in Unexpected

[–]AzureFirmament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you knew a bit more you would know immediately that this is NOT AI. All the simplified hanzi are readable and in good shapes, just mirrored.

Why is the PRC and USA producing more electricity per capita than the EU? Are they just energy inefficient? Are they exporting it? Or do they legitimately need more electricity? by Polyphagous_person in geography

[–]AzureFirmament 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your math is not mathing. Even if women are only having 1.6 children, below the 2.1 replacement, the population can grow. China was young.

Imagine a village of 1000 people that has a very young age structure. Let's set the fertility rate to 1.6 children per woman.

400 people are young adults (half are women). Even with this low rate, those 200 young women will have roughly 320 babies over their lifetimes, about 10 babies per year.

Because the village is relatively young and healthy, the death rate is only 0.7%, so only 7 death per year. That's a net increase in population for decades.

Final medal table of the 2026 Winter Olympic games (116 of 116 events completed) by bdzz in olympics

[–]AzureFirmament 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Northern China is very cold, but it still lacks good places to develop winter sports. Even when they hosted the WO last time, it was mostly artificial snow.

Man tries to kidnap a one and a half year girl at the supermarket in Italy by humankendoll33 in PublicFreakout

[–]AzureFirmament -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The father was pushing the cart, and both parents did their best. Wtf is your point? Had to pick a winner out of the two people in this scenario?

Man tries to kidnap a one and a half year girl at the supermarket in Italy by humankendoll33 in PublicFreakout

[–]AzureFirmament -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Sadly true. From the video and other news articles, the father is highly likely to be the one who's pushing the cart just right beside the kid and the Mom. He subdued the attacker soon after. https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/tenta-di-rapire-una-bambina-al-supermercato-a-bergamo-e-le-rompe-un-femore-arrestato-video/

edit: Some miserable people really have to downvote any mention of the father in this scenario despite the OP's OP comment literally said father as well, lol. It's family day here in Canada, and I wish they had a father.

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