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Along the lines of correct stroke ordering, I learned from a colleague that studied a large amount of Japanese that they had used a visual dictionary for transl
by otras 6y ago
Along the lines of correct stroke ordering, I learned from a colleague that studied a large amount of Japanese that they had used a visual dictionary for translating Kanji to English that both allowed you to draw the symbols and required the symbols to be drawn in the correct order. It seems similar to the base requirement for looking up how to spell a word in the dictionary; you have to have some idea of how the word is formed before you can find the full answer.
- wccrawford 6y agoFor Japanese characters, stroke order definitely affects how easy it is to draw a correct-looking character, so it makes sense to be picky about it. But for English, it simply doesn't matter as much. It's not like they use the same kind of drawing input to look up words in an English dictionary, either.
- dfox 6y agoMany “draw a character” input methods actually don't care at all how the resulting character looks and only use the order and direction of the strokes to generate set of matching characters. Similar idea is IIRC also used to order and collate characters in paper dictionaries.