The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

Based on the experience of every parent I know you can look forward to all kinds of fun illnesses they bring home and share with the family.

[Tamas]

Based on the experience of every parent I know you can look forward to all kinds of fun illnesses they bring home and share with the family.

Oh yes, actually I came down with something after visiting this nursery we have chosen, so it was a proper demo. 

[Josquius]

Just why is president Xi not called president shi?
Yeah yeah, because that's the way pinyin spelling rules go.
But why?
Seems curious they went this way. In Japanese they quite happily use shi for this sound: thought Incidentally I recently read in some official uses they use a system you'd never generally see and are only just killing this other system officially. Shibuya is Sibuya in many documents.