Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works
on 10 Jan 2024 10:50
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Well, this looks like a goddamn nightmare.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
on 10 Jan 2024 13:41
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Might as well just use a pen to save time…
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
on 10 Jan 2024 11:49
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I know nothing about Chinese characters but you would have to think it’d be easier to break all the characters into basic elements and have a dictionary that told the user what elements to add.
Stovetop@lemmy.world
on 10 Jan 2024 12:22
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Honzi/Hanzi/Kanji/whatever you want to call them are mostly made of base parts called radicals that form a whole, but the problem is that they are not the same size/position in different characters. For example, the character for lady 女 is squished to the left in the word for good 好 but squished to the bottom in peaceful 安 and squished to the top left in anger 怒.
And it’s not enough to say “why not just split those half character radicals into full characters and make compound terms” because while 好 means ‘good’, 女子 means ‘maiden’.
Stovetop@lemmy.world
on 10 Jan 2024 21:41
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Relevant username?
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
on 10 Jan 2024 14:43
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Is there a link from a source other than xitter? We should not be normalizing the use of a platform that supports fascism, racism, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobobia, transphobia, antisemitism and other bigotry.
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
on 10 Jan 2024 16:11
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You’d think people on the fediverse would understand this but I’m beginning to realize that for some it’s just another “social media” platform to add to their collection.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world
on 10 Jan 2024 22:09
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We should not be normalizing the use of a platform that supports fascism, racism, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobobia, transphobia, antisemitism and other bigotry.
You mean the internet?
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
on 12 Jan 2024 07:16
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No. I mean havens of conservatism like Twitter, Truth Social and NAMBLA.
datendefekt@lemmy.ml
on 10 Jan 2024 14:47
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I thoroughly recommend the book “The Chinese Typewriter”. It goes through the various challenges that the Chinese language pose. How do you order characters, like in an alphabet? How it was encoded in Morse, or later on, in ASCII. And of course, the various attempts at Chinese typewriting.
Actually quite fascinating!
Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org
on 10 Jan 2024 14:12
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Is there a way to see this without going to twitter?
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Well, this looks like a goddamn nightmare.
Might as well just use a pen to save time…
I know nothing about Chinese characters but you would have to think it’d be easier to break all the characters into basic elements and have a dictionary that told the user what elements to add.
Honzi/Hanzi/Kanji/whatever you want to call them are mostly made of base parts called radicals that form a whole, but the problem is that they are not the same size/position in different characters. For example, the character for lady 女 is squished to the left in the word for good 好 but squished to the bottom in peaceful 安 and squished to the top left in anger 怒.
And it’s not enough to say “why not just split those half character radicals into full characters and make compound terms” because while 好 means ‘good’, 女子 means ‘maiden’.
Seems inefficient.
Relevant username?
Is there a link from a source other than xitter? We should not be normalizing the use of a platform that supports fascism, racism, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobobia, transphobia, antisemitism and other bigotry.
You’d think people on the fediverse would understand this but I’m beginning to realize that for some it’s just another “social media” platform to add to their collection.
Also a source tbat shows it in action.
You mean the internet?
No. I mean havens of conservatism like Twitter, Truth Social and NAMBLA.
I thoroughly recommend the book “The Chinese Typewriter”. It goes through the various challenges that the Chinese language pose. How do you order characters, like in an alphabet? How it was encoded in Morse, or later on, in ASCII. And of course, the various attempts at Chinese typewriting. Actually quite fascinating!
Is there a way to see this without going to twitter?
Yes! I originally found it posted on their TikTok account:
https://www.tiktok.com/@thehuntington/video/7321812764421475630
;)