Hsu Wen-lian, a research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of Information Science, is opposed to the adoption of Tongyong Pinyin on practical grounds: "Why should we expend so much time and energy on a romanization system that the international community isn't going to accept?
中研院資訊科學研究所研究員許聞廉就因現實的考量而反對另起爐灶搞通用拼音，「台灣為什麼要花費一堆社會成本，在一套不會被國際社會接受的拼音系統上？」