[walthamstow]

Chinese-like characters, which were transliterated by Europeans into Latin. This system was made official by the French rulers of Vietnam.

[haskellshill]

So you're saying that because the country was once colonized, their writing system is not "real" enough for you, and you only consider it a transliteration? That seems extremely disrespectful.

[walthamstow]

Nope, I didn't say any of that.