There were questions about the earlier versions of Tongyong that Yu
Boquan [Tongyong main conspirator] tries to destroy the evidence of.
I copied taipei.zip from his account before he could delete it, and
stuck it on my website, which is physically offshore, so sue me.
Other version history should be on the site of my secret admirer,
Prof. Qiu Yaochu of Dongwu Univ. http://mail.scu.edu.tw/~t0812345/
(Chinese)
For some English insights do also see
http://www.geocities.com/hao520/research/
(Chih-Hao Tsai at the Univ. of IL)
By the way, self-proclaimed pinyin controversy expert me says:
Zhuyin fans: do not fear, zhuyin is not a target in my campaign. We
are not out to kill zhuyin [well, ok, unless we get bored 25 years
later], we are only trying to prevent some crackpot trying to fog
things up with counterfeit [= Tongyong] pinyin, because they secretly envy
hanyu pinyin. [Indeed, since I know Yu Boquan very well, if someone
told him how to write such a successful system as hanyu pinyin, he
would have promulgated himself, despite the x’s and q’s that he hung
around Taibei and now rails against. —remember, the whole thing is
to “make a unique identity”, too bad those commies claimed those cool
X’s and Q’s first.
P.S. The tongyong turkeys like to say in ominous tones “hanyu pinyin
was invented by the soviets”. Dan says: I thought it was Zhou
Youguang, Wang Li, etc. anyways, what if it were true, It doesn’t
matter, because we scientist types don’t check to see that the
grandma of the transportation division chief didn’t use organic
molasses before we ride the bus. Wait, the character 5 has unclean
origins. I shall not use 5. I shall exchange 5 and 6, creating a
unique identity. Please read “6” as “five”. Don’t worry, we can
write computer programs to translate them back if you have trouble. I
have computer goggles to translate tongyong back to hanyu as you ride
your motorbike. Wait, lets have a referendum. opps, Mr. Foreigner is
not allowed to vote because he can never become a citizen,
sorry. [actual themes on news:tw.bbs.lang.english this week, in
Chinese, do a google search for things I posted there to find the
thread] http://groups.google.com?q=jidanni tw.bbs.lang.english might
do it.]