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Cleared that up
I've always wondered
Jul 8, 2016 6:41 PM
curseyoukakarot
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I've always wondered
derpesofthemouth
Eat your heart out Mavis Beacon
AkwardBearHug
Theres no way this is accurate.
IcyIcicle
Ding ding ding!
gospelofmillim
That seems fucking inconvenient, but I don't know shit about Chinese.
henrycamron
Well now you do!
LincolnSiixEcho
No, no I still know nothing
MehItCouldBeWorse
Use normal keyboards and type in the romanized sounds of the characters (pinyin) then program helps you select correct character.
fathamster
They use something called pinyin! It's writing the sound of the word with our letters and they get some options that pop up and click it!
iHATEChrisPrattandeveryonethatworshipshim
Thank you for explaining this.
pergh
So it's like the romanisation of the characters
injustbrowser
Am Chinese. Can confirm
injustbrowser
In all seriousness we have a romanized alphabet that we use to type. Is called pinyin
PirateRubberDuck
That makes sense but far less fun to imagine.
DefenestrationAssistant
How its done here (in Taiwan): http://www.dsi-keyboards.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/KA-Chinese-Bopomofo-20845.jpg
Sugabus
Well, look who's the Neil Peart of their office.
Kringhetto
This deserves more upvotes.
MandaloreIncognito
I was gonna say Danny Carey, but I think the Man has Danny beat there.
DontLootCorpsesOnKorriban
Chinese is a pictorial language, it doesnt have an alphabet like english, every word has its own unique symbol. Avg chinese person knows
DontLootCorpsesOnKorriban
Like 30k to 40k words
Impossibrew
shit that's 10 times more words than i know.
LariCheltsy
The accuracy of that username though...
DontLootCorpsesOnKorriban
I love meeting KOTOR players!
Woodncookies
Chinese is also not a language. Cantonese and Mandarin are.
Qualtagh
But Cantonese and Mandarin share roughly the same writing system, and we're talking about writing.
Demauscian
All Chinese uses the same written language (there's traditional or simplified), the languages are spoken differently but written the same.
DontLootCorpsesOnKorriban
Lol my bad, thanks
darkforestriddle
"Chinese" is the accepted shortened version of "Mandarin Chinese". Source: Chinese Linguist.
CeruleanK
Clear this up for me please: Aren't both spoken languages written with just the one same written language?
hallrj
There are two scripts; Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Both Cantonese and Mandarin are written in either script, depending on region
thetastar
Has this person ever heard of spelling things phonetically lol
septillion
SwaglortSeal
There is a transitory "language" called pinyin which translates into characters. They use keyboards very similar to western ones.
jackbos
Usually you just spell it phonetically and the software works out which Kanji to put in, or gives options and you pick one. (1/2)
jackbos
(2/2) At least, that's how it works with Japanese (which uses Chinese characters). I'm not sure what actual Chinese does.
PirateRubberDuck
It builds the characters up in bits. That's all I know.
Volcore
That's how it works in Chinese
Brad2217
Drum foot petals for space bar
DeathStarWasAnInsideJob
白人都是傻逼！we use a system where each character is represented by 2-4 alphabetical letters
rsm958
The pedals make this
jRam90
Most keyboards in asia have 4 bindings per button, that's how they fit their letters.
xuvial
There is something fundamentally wrong with a language that needs 1500-2000+ characters for just reading/writing at an intermediate level.
PokeyPokey
They ran out of space when they went to add the letter "L" to these keyboards
tiberiuswhythecrapcantweuseunderscoresxxvii
I keep telling people I want to see a full unicode keyboard; this is the closest I've seen so far :D
SomeFormOfIntelligentImbecile
This, boys and girls, is the new controller for the upcoming PS4 game, Chinese Hero
LitteralyHitler
They shouldn't use waffle irons, they could burn themselves.
hakunamatautumn
Why is this so funny
JoeDynamo
I always thought 2 arms were enough for any human, I am mistaken
Mgiggity
I'm pretty sure one of those symbols means Made in China
Dramacian
Would work better with regular drumsticks.
WildWade
Play YY Zed..
Babelfisch
I wonder what it would spell if you played that drum solo from In The Air Tonight?
Dramacian
Don't the song mate sry ;)
Babelfisch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA 3:15
LariCheltsy
Chopsticks are probably easier to find.
Dramacian
You don't "play" with chopstick. Rude, impolite, offensive.
schmooster
... and by extension one does not tend to eat with regular drumsticks very often
Dramacian
That, Madam, Sir, has been done. And by none other then Gene Krupa http://imgur.com/MUixYF2
andtheseashalltell
If you think that's unwieldy, you should see how they arrange filing cabinets and the like in the absence of alphabetical order.
CardioVascular
There is a pinyin typer, where you type in the romanticized text and it finds the character you want.
etopsirhc
what's harder, memorizing the symbols, or where they are on the keyboards?
CorneliusCornwall
Yes
Imgfire
Well obviously they are alphabetical
Se7enPr1me
The alphabet only applies with germanic languages and greek origin languages lmao
pancreas
fun fact, symbols don't have an alphabetical hierarchy. that's why chinese phone books and such are a pain in the ass.
bisqwit
There are a number of methods to search, such as by radical, or by SKIP code, or the four-corner method, and so on.
dontsaydoingyourwife
Xie xie
yesihavenobananas
I feel like this is wrong, but I don't know enough about the Chinese language to argue.
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Qualtagh
that's Japanese, but good try
kokofesh
Ironically they use US keyboard and no additional buttons!
WanderingWolfX
I smirked at the post, your comment made me legit laugh like an idiot!
EthanRamsay
it is wrong
Kidiri
Mrziffle
Will wok you through it.
scmfck
... same lol
its13lu
...I feel like this is wong, but i don't wong to argue...
FN2199
As someone who has studied chinese they use the pinyin system which means they type in "ni hao" for instance and it gets turned into the 1/2
FN2199
Appropriate chinese characters 2/2
BoeingAH64DApacheAttackHelicopter
Well to type mandarin or Cantonese you can either have type pinyin and have it change to characters. Or have a keyboard with the lines (1/2)
swagdestroy
你好
BoeingAH64DApacheAttackHelicopter
Used to build any character if you type in the order you would make draw the character in.
SithLordVoldemort
I learned something today
AgentYork1337
I feel the same way about stars.
Manfredjinsinjin
*wong
TotallyNotDitto
You beat me to it
Likeamamagoose
You made be blow air through my nose. Thanks
JestersWing
Wlong*
DarkSock
Guys...let me stop you there. Because two Wongs don't make a right.
OneZebraInAHerdOfWildebeests
white*
DarkSock
(In New Zealand accent) *wait*
luv2imgureveryday
don't you mean a "wight"?
JustSomeEnglishGuy
In Tomorrow Never Dies film it shows a keyboard similar in layout to ours with Chinese symbols on it, James Bond doesn't understand it 1/2
JustSomeEnglishGuy
So Chinese female with him types. I'm assuming that their keyboards will be similar to ours.
Spookymeter
I saw a Chinese foreign-exchange student using an American keyboard. He used Google Translate and copy/pasted the Chinese symbols.
Woodncookies
For one, there's no language called "Chinese".
OutrageousHemmorhoid
It's "putonghua" or some such Mumbai jumbo :P
BillyFiveDicks
You just got absolutely fucking wrecked.
yesihavenobananas
See! Know you know how much I don't know!
JPre35
now*
yesihavenobananas
Yeah, I saw that after I pressed "enter" and sat there and contemplated my stupidity for a moment.
JPre35
i read it i was like something is wrong... took me like 3 reads to figure it out..too many knows lol
irategazelle
Listen here fucko
TheDarkLordOfTrees
Listen here 混蛋
Woodncookies
Phenomenal way to start the convo. And then...
darkforestriddle
As a Chinese Linguist, yes there is.
BillyFiveDicks
@Woodncookies just got absolutely fucking wrecked.
darkforestriddle
There's Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. It is not called "Cantonese Chinese" so "Chinese" is the accepted shortened version of the former.
KimJongSpoon
大多数的人对中文不够了解。。。
Woodncookies
You're talking of "Standard Chinese" which is Mandarin in the Beijing dialect. There are 5 other forms as well.
irategazelle
I think I'm going to go ahead and trust the linguist.
darkforestriddle
No, I'm not. And It's the opposite, actually, "Pekingese" (the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese) is more considered NOT standard Chinese.
PinksFunnyFarm
Technically there are several languages called "Chinese". Maybe by people who don't know the real name, but still call it that. Technically.