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- verb Present participle of
romanize .
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The rapid spread of "romanizing" practices, though in their extreme form they were confined to a comparatively small number of churches, began to attract general attention, while causing profound uneasiness to Evangelicals and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Pinyin is finally catching on in Taiwan, so I have decided to use it for romanizing Chinese terms, including Taiwanese place names, but I do make two exceptions.
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Any foreigner who has been in Taiwan any length of time has surely noticed Taiwan's insanity-inducing mix of systems for romanizing Chinese.
tongyong pinyin haters: you are all colonialist shits Michael Turton 2006
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Any foreigner who has been in Taiwan any length of time has surely noticed Taiwan's insanity-inducing mix of systems for romanizing Chinese.
Archive 2006-09-01 Michael Turton 2006
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Have you ever seen the old French system for romanizing Chinese?
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As for the old French system for romanizing Chinese, if you spend any time with the Cantos you become very familiar with it -- Pound used some Jesuit source for his Chinese material, and it's all Tcheou and Fou and like that.
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Alexandre lived in Vietnam for many years and learned the language extremely well; he compiled an early Latin-Vietnamese-Portuguese dictionary and is considered the pioneer in romanizing the Vietnamese language.
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Another proof of the romanizing influence of the Church may be found in the fact that the Franks established in Belgium forgot their tribal affinities.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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The romanizing movement in the West came from below.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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So also the strong romanizing of the Maronite Liturgy was entirely the work of the Maronites themselves, when, surrounded by enemies in the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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