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I have many relatives who type on their computers and phones exclusively in pinyin. You don't need to use Chinese characters at all.
by acchow 9y ago
I have many relatives who type on their computers and phones exclusively in pinyin. You don't need to use Chinese characters at all.
- yoz-y 9y agoYou don’t need to be able to write them but you still need to read them to choose the correct character after typing the pinyin. Or do they actually send the Latin transcription? That would be very ambiguous.
- acchow 9y agoDepends on the person. I've seen some of them just send straight-up latin characters without translating it to a Chinese character.
- ghayes 9y agoReally? I’ve never seen pinyin written except as a learning aid (and as part of the modern keyboard input process). Chinese speakers will even air-draw characters if the context doesn’t make it clear in spoken language.
- adrianN 9y agoYes, there is emergent digraphia in China, because characters are fucking hard even for native speakers. Character amnesia, the effect where native speakers can't write common words, is becoming more and more common as keyboards become the dominant way of writing Chinese. I would be very surprised however if Pinyin became the official way of writing Chinese.
- lainga 9y agoCool. Do they type the tone accents or something like it (m`a m'a m-a) or go with numbers (ma1 ma2 ma3)?