On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:55 AM, S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Deng Hui, > > At 17:04 10-07-2013, Hui Deng wrote: >> >> We submitted two drafts to help people here to correctly call chinese >> people names: >> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-deng-call-chinese-names-00 >> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zcao-chinese-pronounce-00 > > > I would like to thank you and your co-author on taking the initiative to > write the drafts. I don't know whether I am western or not. :-) :) > > In Section 3 of draft-deng-call-chinese-names-00: > > 'Two generic titles that have similar meanings to "Mr." and > "Ms./Mrs." are "Xian1sheng1" and "Nv3Shi4".' > > "(1,2,3,4 in this section will be explained in next section) > > There are digits in two words in the above. I suggest making the comment > about the numbers clearer by mentioning that the digits are intentional and > they are used to denote the tone. Thanks for the comments, we will revise accordingly. btw: tones are really difficult to handle, similar for us Chinese to use the modal words and intonations in English. > > Regards, > S. Moonesamy