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Why is one Daoism and one Taoism?



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Old 07-02-2010, 11:02 PM
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Default Why is one Daoism and one Taoism?
Why are there different spellings is there a reason?
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Old 07-03-2010, 11:02 PM
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no reason

potato - potato
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Old 07-05-2010, 11:02 PM
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Depends on which Chinese language you use. Daoism is Mandarin.
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Old 07-08-2010, 11:02 PM
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The Chinese syllable can be splat either way. 'D' and 't' are phonetically similar, the real pronunciation is somewhere in-between.
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