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[work] + [fight] + [sun] is poor Huffmanization of the common English suffix -tion. That's what, 14 strokes when English just takes 7? Well, maybe that was th
by labster 10y ago
[work] + [fight] + [sun] is poor Huffmanization of the common English suffix -tion. That's what, 14 strokes when English just takes 7?
Well, maybe that was the point, though -- that the priorities of the language may change over time, and eventually you're dealing with 2000 year old Cockney rhyming slang baked into your written language. But that's just the opinion of one guy sitting on his Vannevar.
- gfaure 10y agoThat is a part of the analogy which definitely applies -- Chinese script (even Simplified) often completely ignores Huffman coding-like principles. Otherwise we wouldn't have words like 繼續 "continue" (41 strokes).
- yorwba 10y agoFor comparison, the letters in "continue" have approximately 15 strokes total.
- labster 10y ago続く is 14 strokes, so Japanese beats English! I could go on ... and "go on" is only 6 strokes.
- vacri 10y agoYou could just use the ellipsis, and use only three strokes. Or even simpler, an em-dash at one stroke. :)
- pacaro 10y agoOr two strokes and a dot in cursive. A principle that also applies in Chinese and Japanese
- leemailll 10y ago继续 21 strokes jixu 8 strokes
- vorg 10y ago继续 is 21 strokes when printed, but less when foreigners in China like me write them when we handwrite them quickly. 继 is 5 strokes handwritten (纟,䒑,丨,八,乚 each written in one stroke) and 续 is 4 (纟,十over乛,氵,人 each as one stroke), so that's 9 altogether. Mainland Chinese who learn handwriting at school have a way of writing each character with only one or two strokes.
- vacri 10y agoIf you're only counting pen-down-pen up as a single stroke regardless of smooth movement, then any cursive word in any latin-based alphabet is a single stroke, unless it has an 'i/j' or some sort of diacritic in it (some people cross 't' in their cursive, some people do it separately).
- dou4cc 10y agoPeople like you looking for less strokes in China mix both English and 中文 words in a passage, which is silly in my opinion.
- dTal 10y ago>sitting on his Vannevar. Took me a minute and some Googling. Did you just make that up? It's in perfect spirit.
- labster 10y agoYeah, that's my original rhyming slang. Thought of it about a year ago. But as is usual for jokes, sometimes you have to wait for years to find the perfect time and audience to use it.