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Old April 21st, 2012, 16:03   #9
sortie39
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Originally Posted by Disco_Dante View Post
Isnt it Guomindang in pinying? I was taught to refer to the nationalists as as GMD not KMT
Yep the simplified chinese reads it as GMD while the traditional chinese thinks KMT would make more sense.
To me either way is fine but some outsiders might find it a bit weird, a commonly verbally understandable chinese language comes out with two different written forms by which some might not be able to recognize each other.
It is weird!
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