I just ran across this message posted recently on a Facebook group, and it's blowing my mind.
at 2:00am on August 13th, 2008
nihao. Wo tseu fagoren. Shenzhen hua hay ni ! mingbaile putankuoa. wo jiao zeugen. tsa meumay ?/duo shao xiang ? piayi yi dien ? xing boxing ? tsaijen ! :)
I can make out about 80% of what he's saying, but can anybody tell me what this is? Cantonese? A dialect of Mandarin? An obscure romanization system?
posted by Micah Sittig at 15:22,
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Looks like a French guy in Shenzhen who hasn't learned Pinyin. Probably using something similar to the phonetic spelling used in a Lonely Planet guide.
What's funny is that it can be basically understood by people with a knowledge of pinyin and spoken Chinese.
I especially like 'tsaijen', it's like fake Wade-Giles or something.
I was aboutto say what Andy already said, that its some kind of French wade-giles.
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