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Isn't remembering your QQ number similar to remembering your phone number? I think the author is being overly dramatic as to how hard it is to remember it.
by gberger 8y ago
Isn't remembering your QQ number similar to remembering your phone number? I think the author is being overly dramatic as to how hard it is to remember it.
- joe_the_user 8y agoBefore smart phones, I had maybe a dozens phone number memorized. Now I have exactly one, my own, memorized. I suspect this is an effect of the particular way in which Westerners have come to relate to phone numbers and similar numbers just as the emphasis on numbers is an effect of the way Chinese came to relate to phones and computers.
- ThePadawan 8y agoI also still remember my ICQ number which I haven't used in at least 6 years. I concur.
- imgabe 8y agoI keep at least one credit card number memorized. It's not that difficult.
- jccalhoun 8y agoThe whole article is over dramatic. It takes until half way through to get to the answer: numbers sound like words or the url is from their phone number. But that would be a really short article, I guess...
- Macuyiko 8y agoMy initial reaction as well: "What a way to draw out something simple across page of prose." (1) Numbers in Chinese match well with the tonality of the language making it easier to remember (compare: "singing" numbers in any language works better to remember them). (2) Chinese students are trained from a young age to memorize. That's it basically. No "obsession". No hidden stuff. I also find articles like this pretty degrading. That doesn't mean I'm not jealous of my Chinese half of the family to be able to remember numbers so easily whereas I can barely remember my PIN code :).
- taobility 8y agoThat reminds me every time when I have to tell some customer service on the phone my email address, which needs to provide every character an vocabulary to avoid typo, meanwhile, in China, I just need to provide QQ email with plain numbers, and barely made any mistake.