This helps as more chinese products and services hit the market and makes it easier to remember. The naming is similar to the popularity of greek mythology in western products. (e.g. all the products named "Apollo")
This helps as more chinese products and services hit the market and makes it easier to remember. The naming is similar to the popularity of greek mythology in western products. (e.g. all the products named "Apollo")
They are also of limited use to non-Chinese readers, who don't understand the tone system and probably can't even audibly distinguish tones.
So, it makes sense that we get this weird system even though it's strictly worse.
Hun Yuan is a lot better. I agree, with unicode, we can easily incorporate the tone.
The irony is not lost on me that Tencent themselves did that.
Popular? So you’re saying that all the VPs who have come up with the mind bendingly unique and creative name Prometheus didn’t do so out of level 10 vision?