Romanized Vietnamese

Vietnamese writing was changed that based on Chinese characters to Roman ones, as devised by a French man, Alexandre de Rhodes. “… roughly 80 percent of Vietnam’s population was more or less literate in the Chinese ideographs used for written Vietnamese. Aiming at break Vietnam’s cultural continuity, the French banned the Chinese characters and replaced them with either French or quoc ngu, the romanized alphabet perfected by Alexandre de Rhodes in the seventeenth century (p. 115, “Vietnam: A History”).”  I don’t know exactly when they banned it.

SHAME ON YOU, LESSIE. SHOW YOUR FACE TO THE WORLD AND REPENT AND ACCEPT THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR STUPID ACTIONS. YOU ARE NOT A HUMAN BEING, JUST SCUM. AND YOU ARE A FUGITIVE.