This refers to you only because you are a dimwit, got it?
Ok, now to your only statement of any actual substance (kind of):
I am not the one trying to tell a Chinese person what it is like to be Chinese
Whom are you referring to on this thread and how would anyone be doing such a thing? How would such a thing even ever be done?
This will be funny, I'm sure.
>>Methinks the dimwit doth protesteth too much.
No, I Doth Protest too much (Get your Shakespeare right or don’t quote)
>>>>I am not the one trying to tell a Chinese person what
>>>>it is like to be Chinese.
>>Whom are you referring to on this thread and how would
>>anyone be doing such a thing? How would such a thing
>>even ever be done?
Here are some entries from this very thread to illustrate:
# 82 cmdjin to tallhappy:
You know what I find really ironic? People that don't speak a lick of Chinese instructing native Chinese speakers on (in)proper usage. I know its hard, but stop embarrassing yourself moron. ? is the character used in Germany ? is to get Phonetically, the words are homonyms, but different. Also your complete and utter misunderstanding of the purpose of Romanization is ludicrous. Te Kuo LOL. The word is pronounced and written the same either on the mainland or Taiwan, the difference is a matter of Romanization systems, Wade-Giles (not really a standard) for the RoC vs Pinyin for the PRC. You are an example of the subject matter in the original article, idiots with a cursory knowledge/ignorance of Chinese feigning some degree of depth. As for being PRC shills, I'd work as one, but unfortunately they don't pay me enough :*(
# 89 tallhappy to cmdjin:
My you are an idiot, aren't you?
My point was that either de could be used -- as you state and I stated earlier, they are pronounced exactly the same -- the question is why did they use the character meaning virtue?
# 79 tallhappy to pgnini:
de-guo (tekuo for people really from Taiwan) could be obtain country as in bude.
They chose the de they chose because it was nice.
It's phonetic, of course, but other considerations were involved.
It's OK. I know you are psychotic.
Just a little history:
You really are a wonder, the ability to diagnose mental illness online, instruct two native Chinese speakers in the history, and methodology of naming foreign countries, in their own language, and culture (I believe both cmdjin and pgnini have professed to be native speakers of Chinese on this thread), and to top it off everyone is your mental inferior.
WOW -- must be cool to be you.
Are you hiding out over here from a beating over at DU? When in jeopardy of losing an argument you name call with the best!
“Violence, the last resource of the incompetent; online it’s name calling”