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Tangentially related but there is a recent Radiolabs podcast about "The Wubi Effect" and it's a very interesting listen. The Chinese market also uses QWERTY (wh
by llm_nerd 3y ago
Tangentially related but there is a recent Radiolabs podcast about "The Wubi Effect" and it's a very interesting listen. The Chinese market also uses QWERTY (which surprised me), and they enter text using a variety of coding tactics. The government pushed method is called pinyin and is basically phonetic and was a way to try to standardize pronunciation. The Wubi method is basically building the shape components of the character set.
Anyways, fascinating to learn. Somehow didn't realize that so much of the world also uses QWERTY.
- School-Cotton 3y agoPinyin is not just an input method, it’s also the standard way to write Mandarin in the Latin alphabet. Virtually all the spellings of names from mainland China that you’re familiar with (e.g., Xi Jinping) are written in Pinyin.
- hoppyhoppy2 3y agohttps://radiolab.org/podcast/wubi-effect https://radiolab.org/podcast/wubi-effect
- sho_hn 3y agoThe essential read: https://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp171_chinese_writing_reform.pdf https://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp171_chinese_writing_re...