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Man, I thought I was having a stroke reading this. It would frankly be a lot more readable if they'd just used pinyin directly. As an example, they use 下在 in p
by nneonneo 3y ago
Man, I thought I was having a stroke reading this. It would frankly be a lot more readable if they'd just used pinyin directly.
As an example, they use 下在 in place of 下载. These are pronounced differently (zài in the former, zǎi in the latter). The former also sort-of means "here is" or "below are" (although nobody would actually write it that way), which means you get something that looks kind of like "below are size: 188.17 MiB" instead of "download size".
I do appreciate the author pointing out that this is just an exercise, because I would never be able to use this in practice, and I'm not even a native speaker.
- SuperNinKenDo 3y agoTechnically the official pronunciation of 下载, is xia4zai4, though I've never heard it said that way.
- oldherl 3y agoAuthor here. Fair point for using pinyin directly, but the TTY font requires the glyphs to be of the same size. Squashing the longest syllables like "chuang" into one cell doesn't look nice.
- yorwba 3y agoIt looks like each character is taking up twice the width of an ASCII symbol, but half of that is empty space. Why is that? Is that space completely unusable?
- olalonde 3y ago> I'm not even a native speaker. It might actually be easier for non native speakers. It seems a lot of native speakers have a harder time reading pinyin for example (compared to non native speakers).