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Tones = {
  1 => :flat,
  2 => :up,
  3 => :downup,
  4 => :down,
  5 => :notone,
}

# where v = umlaut
Vowels = [

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Your origina

a a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 e e1 e2 e3 e4 e5 i i1 i2 i3 i4 i5 o o1 o2 o3 o4 o5 u u1 u2 u3 u4 u5 ü v1 v2 v3 v4 ü

Tonal pinyin: 
a ā á ǎ à a e ē é ě è e i ī í ǐ ì i o ō ó ǒ ò o u ū ú ǔ ù u ü ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ ü

a ā á ǎ à a e ē é ě è e i ī í ǐ ì i o ō ó ǒ ò o u ū ú ǔ ù u ü ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ Ã

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1) Guilin - famous for landscape
2) X'ian 
3) Zhang Jia Jie - Where Owen went

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1) Guilin - famous for landscape
2) X'ian 
3) Zhang Jia Jie - Where Owen went

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# Learning Cantonese using bastardised pinyin
# Cantonese pronunciation : English phrase
#

ng goi: please/thank you (in shops etc)
dor dze: thank you (someone has just done something nice for you)

ngaw seung...: I would like...
ngaw seung leung go bear-tzhao: I would like 2 beers.

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# config/app_config.yml
---
defaults: &defaults
  :name: Super Awesome Blog
  :tagline: My super awesome blog and stuff.
  :email: [email protected]

development:
  <<: *defaults
  # Override the defaults.

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# translate text on the command line

require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'
require 'json'

# Usage: $0 from:to phrase...
#
# the first argument defines the languages to convert from and to.  If only one

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module ColourfulPuts
  def cprint(text, colour)
    colours = {
      :red => "\033[1;31m",
      :yellow => "\033[1;31m",
      :green => "\033[1;32m",
      :blue => "\033[1;34m",
      :magenta => "\033[1;35m",
      :default => "\033[0m"
    }