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Old 02-15-2008, 01:58 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by GirlySports View Post
This summer at the Beijing Olympics, the countries will march in the order of the Chinese Alphabet... that'll be really messed up!
I assume that means that they will use the Pinyin spelling of the countries names and them march them in alphabetically (using the Roman alphabet)?

FWIW Canada in Mandarin is Janada pretty easy...Canadian (person) is Janada-ren
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