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Comment by jiehong

4 months ago

Agreed. We all have a duty to respect languages and their official transcription. Pinyin with tones does not look much different from French with accents. In both cases, most people aren’t likely to pronounce it correctly, though.

The irony is not lost on me that Tencent themselves did that.

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