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Not to be that guy but being an English forum shouldn't all users have English usernames?
This is chinese ， “ 黑大帅” in english is “ black eggplant”
I know it's Chinese. What I'm saying is that usernames should (from my understanding of the rules) be in English. Not Chinese.
Although black eggplant... lol
Does anyone know any Philippine VPS providers?
If you're looking for Philippine VPS, there's @LightNode and CloudSigma .
I've used both of them, the first server doesn't work, the second doesn't work for bulk purchases
Is this dialect? To me it seems like it should mean "corrupt head honcho" (assuming a metaphorical meaning of 黑).
But anyway, this discussion about usernames cropped up before about a year ago and many people pointed out that many users have non-English names even if they are written with standard Latin characters.
TBH, I don't see the problem - even if you can't type the name, you can copy and paste it. If it was transliterated into pinyin, you wouldn't necessarily know how to pronounce it accurately, although in this case it'd be obvious.
I thought that in general, a transliteration into Pinyin gives a much better idea (than the characters) about how to pronounce a word or phrase
It's complicated really... The main issue is that every character has a tone as well as a pronounciation, which is often added as an accent, sometimes as a number, and often just completely ignored.
If it had accents in it, people would complain just as much: hēidàshuài
If it had numbers, it would cause even more confusion to people who don't understand pinyin: hei1da4shuai4
And if it's missing, it's not obvious what tones to use: heidashuai (except in this case, there's only one obvious way of pronouncing this)
One of my bugbears about road signs in China is they usually go for the last solution, which means that even if you can read pinyin, you still might not be able to make yourself understood if asking someone directions to that road.
One example of this is that there are 2 provinces in China whose pinyin is Shanxi - 山西 and 陕西. They sound different, and to make life easier for non Chinese speakers, one is officially spelled as Shaanxi in English, but that's not actually correct pinyin as that would decompose to 3 phonemes - sha an xi. There's also some other ambiguity in pinyin within compound words, e.g. the city 西安 as spelled as Xi'an in pinyin to distinguish it from the single phoneme xian.
If you can read Chinese characters, even if it's a character you've not seen before, there are often enough hints in the character itself that allow you to guess what the pronunciation might be because most characters are made up by combining two other characters, and usually one of them provides the phonetic component.
CloudSigma is by far the better choice for Philippines. The cheapest also
Thank you, I bought a lot of machines from his family, but when I buy one, I have to re-register an account, which is too troublesome
I purchased 8 VPS, and I have 8 accounts 。。。。。。。。。
That was unexpectedly interesting, thanks for sharing that
The end is... you know... nigh?
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