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The 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 t

• Macuyiko 8y ago
  My 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 ago
    That 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.