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Very clever. That said, there’s plenty of HKers who were happy to be govt stooges who speak Cantonese and can write English.
by johnzim 7y ago
Very clever. That said, there’s plenty of HKers who were happy to be govt stooges who speak Cantonese and can write English.
- ARandomerDude 7y agoTrue, but it no doubt greatly reduces the amount of government involvement in this area.
- krasin 7y agoOnly for a little while. It will take a few days to make a browser extension to fix this.
- s_Hogg 7y agoWhat sort of browser extension are you thinking of that would only take a couple of days?
- realusername 7y agoThere's nothing which will translate that as far as I know, it's an entirely different problem than chinese characters since Cantonese is a separate language and the phonetics are not even standardized in these messages so there's no 1 to 1 mapping to characters either.
- robjan 7y agoIf you type the phonetic words in using the Google Keyboard in JyutPing mode, you will usually get the correct Chinese characters. The thing that would defeat this, though, is the deliberate introduction of very colloquial Chinglish puns.
- ttggyyuqw 7y agoThere are also over 100 million Cantonese speakers in China. It’s like the interesting fact there are more Mongolians in China than in Mongolia.