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Most publications are haphazard like this. The diacritic example also applies to Vietnamese, despite the alphabet coming from Portuguese. Similarly, Chinese an
by devnullbrain 1y ago
Most publications are haphazard like this. The diacritic example also applies to Vietnamese, despite the alphabet coming from Portuguese.
Similarly, Chinese and Korean names are usually written in the order they are pronounced, while Japanese names are reversed.
- dawnofdusk 1y ago>Similarly, Chinese and Korean names are usually written in the order they are pronounced, while Japanese names are reversed. As a Chinese speaker this is maddeningly confusing when reading Western media. It's also a fairly new trend, I want to say a decade ago Chinese and Korean names were also read in Western order.