Narwhal (narwhal)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-15 00:56:33 UTC
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@metaltao The original romanization system for hanzi to English was built on an imperfect understanding of Chinese. Because there were multiple Chinese dialects to convert, consonants were initially used very sparingly, so something like the 't' in "tao" would signify a 'd' sound whereas if you wanted a 't' sound you needed to write "t'ao" in the old system.
