Misspellings becoming accepted alternates?

[konungursvia]

Your absence will be welcomed by "all and some." Cherished and savoured, even. Your readiness to ridicule, attack and belittle the thoughts of other members is not in keeping with the spirit of this site. I would suggest you find somewhere else to be a thoughtless vandal.

[Anglika]

Yes, my wife is Taiwanese and I came across that. But my story is not an idle bit of nonsense. Have you read the newish book, "1421: The year the Chinese discovered the world?"
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Not necessarily the best source of information:

Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog

[konungursvia]

True, after reading his sequel, 1434, I don't take all of his work as very authoritative any more. But Menzies has many sources, and the Chinese anchors around NZ and South America are fairly certainly authentic, as are the Chinese loan words in Haida and other dialects. I don't thing there's any evidence Zheng He reached Europe, however, despite the whole book on that one.