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Why design this romanization system?

Why romanization?

Because Cantonese is not a "dialect". Never was, never will be. The true identity of Cantonese is a thousand-year-old Sino-Kra-Dai creole language with near-zero mutual intelligibility with modern Mandarin.

But why, I hear you asking, why can't you just use Yuhtyúx zèngzì (粵語正字; lit. "Cantonese proper characters")? The thing is, while designing a new romanization for Mandarin seems to be generally considered stupid, doing the same thing for Cantonese is (unfortunately) purely a political statement whose objectives Yuhtyúx zèngzì can never fulfill: the myth of Cantonese being merely a "dialect" is based on (1) the fact that we are all "Han people" (which is false; we are much closer to Vietnamese and other Kra-Dai language users than to northern Han) and (2) the fact that Cantonese is supposed to be only able to be written in Chinese characters (because "it's a dialect"; and when you ask why it's a dialect instead of a language they'll tell you that written Cantonese is the same as written Mandarin; it's one big circular reasoning). Using Yuhtyúx zèngzì is only going to further solidify this myth.

Why not Jyutping?

Jyutping uses numbers to denote tones, which is not very neat when used in long text; tones are vital to Cantonese but I certainly wouldn't want to write a number after every single character.

Why the revision?

After completing the 2022 version there were a few points that I don't like:

Why not Yale?

I designed the system (the 2022 version) exactly because I couldn't input macron easily as on smartphones; or else I would've just used Yale. (Maybe oneday I'll make a tool like Tajpi for Esperanto and this whole system would be deprecated; who knows?)

Wouldn't there be ambiguity if you don't use Chinese characters?

Well we don't "speak" Chinese characters per se (you don't speak a writing system anyway) but we never find it inconvenient; the Koreans ditched Chinese characters centuries ago and they haven't feel much inconvenience, do they?

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