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quote:“How do you convince a person who's been told for a century and a half that their alphabet is the greatest thing since sliced bread?”
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I'm sure that everyone will soon be falling over themselves to use this nonsensical and needlessly complicated typing system versus one with 26 letters that don't change depending on how hard you hit the key Note: Even in Asia all programming is done in English using the Alphabet
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Nov 2, 2016 04:09
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LGD posted:This is the thread for spectacularly stupid arguments about the coming Chinese century, right? 
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Nov 2, 2016 04:10
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quote:Typing English on a QWERTY computer keyboard, he says, “is about the most basic rudimentary way you can use a keyboard.” You press the “a” key and “a” appears on your screen. “It doesn't make use of a computer’s processing power and memory and the cheapening thereof.” Type “a” on a QWERTY keyboard hooked up to a Chinese computer, on the other hand, and the computer is off anticipating the next characters. Typing in Chinese requires mediation from a layer of software that is obvious to the user. that's exactly why QWERTY needs to be replaced - it's just not complicated enough
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Nov 2, 2016 04:11
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Blistex posted:North Korean propaganda really exaggerates some European features to make them look scarier. US soldiers are usually, tall, gaunt, have really dark sunken eyes, big noses, and mouths. They try and make them look as alien as possible compared to the Korean seen in propaganda posters that all look like chubby 4 year olds. They're almost all in some biblical Armageddon type backdrop with flames everywhere. http://sobadsogood.com/2016/01/30/heres-a-stack-of-anti-american-propaganda-from-north-korea/ I'd wager almost all the privileged North Korean children have viewed all of these in their museum.
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Nov 2, 2016 04:14
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man i hadn't seen this one before badass
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Nov 2, 2016 04:36
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Darkest Auer posted:I don't know which Beijing you've been to, but the one I know doesn't look anything like a dystopian megacity. More like an average lovely farmer village scaled up 10000% with a few more supermarkets and I guess some brand name stores downtown. Which is why it's infinitely more pleasant than the oppressive hellscape that is Shanghai.  While Tokyo has the whole red flashing lights on towerblocks nailed down, Beijing has the whole pollution haze neon vibe going on.   Add the two together and its very 1980s Tech Noir feel Possible soundtrack to it BCR fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Nov 2, 2016 04:48
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wide stance posted:They're almost all in some biblical Armageddon type backdrop with flames everywhere. This guy seems fine with with his situation. He doesn't even need to be tied up. 
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Nov 2, 2016 04:59
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Nov 2, 2016 05:03
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Facebook Aunt posted:This guy seems fine with with his situation. He doesn't even need to be tied up. the outward burns are nothing compared to the flame of juche that will forever rage in his heart
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Nov 2, 2016 05:04
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Facebook Aunt posted:This guy seems fine with with his situation. He doesn't even need to be tied up. 
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Nov 2, 2016 05:05
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LGD posted:This is the thread for spectacularly stupid arguments about the coming Chinese century, right? i love the pissing contests over whose writing system is the best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfOBOgwnBCo "Hangeul is the best alphabet in the world that all languages dream of"
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Nov 2, 2016 05:17
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lets be fair here, hangul does own
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Nov 2, 2016 05:23
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big time bisexual posted:"Hangeul is the best alphabet in the world that all languages dream of" Hanja and its ilk are garbage though. "Let's adopt our own great alphabet that makes lots of sense. Better introduce over 1,800 chinese characters to gently caress everything up" Khorne fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Nov 2, 2016 05:36
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Hey Autismo, I want to get in contact with you but you don't have PMs, what's a white person to do?
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Nov 2, 2016 05:40
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the only good writing system is Egyptian hieroglyphics p
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Nov 2, 2016 05:54
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Chinese may work on mobile things where you can write the character with your finger on a screen and the correct one will show up. Using a keyboard to write Chinese in China, HK, and Taiwan all have different systems that are so lovely. I've been professional Chinese secretaries take agonizingly long to type on keyboards and continually needing to delete, go back to the base radical and search for the right character.
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Nov 2, 2016 05:57
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Fall Sick and Die posted:Hey Autismo, I want to get in contact with you but you don't have PMs, what's a white person to do? either buy me plat or post ur wechat so i can add you i guess? a bunch of other china goons have my wechat so maybe message them on wechat if you use it
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Nov 2, 2016 06:04
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LGD posted:This is the thread for spectacularly stupid arguments about the coming Chinese century, right?
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Nov 2, 2016 06:15
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The Great Autismo! posted:either buy me plat or post ur wechat so i can add you i guess? a bunch of other china goons have my wechat so maybe message them on wechat if you use it edited Fall Sick and Die fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Nov 2, 2016 06:18
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k i added u
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Nov 2, 2016 06:21
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Fojar38 posted:Really "western medicine" should just be loving called "medicine." There's a widely read book about an immigrant Hmong family in the US and their travails with medicine due to having a severely epileptic daughter. It's called The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. The person who wrote it has an outro to it where she said she initially thought she was going to write a book about how western medicine had failed this immigrant family but by the end of it had to admit that the only functional years of the child's life were due to western medicine -- there's a quote where she's talking to a nurse about the problems western medicine has with intercultural understanding and communication and the nurse just flatly says to her "Western medicine saves lives." Here's a joke from the medical community. "What do you call alternative medicine that works? Medicine." The actual term for evidence based logical medicine is allopathic medicine. People who want body plumbing to be more than it is sometimes use that term like a curse word but the people who believe in it see it as a positive term. People on the allopathic side refer to fantasy or hope based medical practices most broadly as "woo."
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Nov 2, 2016 06:57
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Sheep-Goats posted:The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down If you want to get extremely angry then read this book, highly recommended
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Nov 2, 2016 06:59
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Brannock posted:If you want to get extremely angry then read this book, highly recommended The best book to read about the way medicine actually is is House of God, it's the Kitchen Confidential for that industry. Spirit is okay, but I'd expect more people end up sad from reading it than angry.
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Nov 2, 2016 07:13
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today four people came from Skyish Air, I guess it is a company that checks the air quality of our office?, and they presented us with a really nice, framed award that said our air quality met these high standards set by some level of something. My coworker accepted the award. They then went to each and every room and took the air quality, and took pictures of themselves taking the air quality, after giving us the award. Now one of their employees is smoking next to our receptionist and talking about signing up for something from their company. the most China thing imaginable
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Nov 2, 2016 07:35
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The Great Autismo! posted:the most China thing imaginable 
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Nov 2, 2016 07:47
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Khorne posted:Hangul kinda owns. It's no worse than the english alphabet. Hanja came first though? And hangul's popularity is relatively recent.
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Nov 2, 2016 08:28
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LGD posted:This is the thread for spectacularly stupid arguments about the coming Chinese century, right?  What am I reading here.
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Nov 2, 2016 08:29
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Dicky mouse posted:where are you getting TMC in japan? We have them all over in loving Arizona, I'd assume there are even more in places right next to China and suffering 1500 years of Chinese cultural imperialism. Now yeberias, that's where you get the good stuff.
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Nov 2, 2016 09:17
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Blistex posted:North Korean propaganda really exaggerates some European features to make them look scarier. US soldiers are usually, tall, gaunt, have really dark sunken eyes, big noses, and mouths. They try and make them look as alien as possible compared to the Korean seen in propaganda posters that all look like chubby 4 year olds. Basically our Jewish stereotype* = their European stereotype * well, if this were still the 1930's e: I have an azerty keyboard so qwerty is still the envy of my world Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Nov 2, 2016 09:39
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Jeoh posted:Hanja came first though? And hangul's popularity is relatively recent. I'm pretty happy it's largely shunned by the south korean population in 2016. Khorne fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Nov 2, 2016 10:18
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Sheep-Goats posted:There's a widely read book about an immigrant Hmong family in the US and their travails with medicine due to having a severely epileptic daughter. It's called The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. The person who wrote it has an outro to it where she said she initially thought she was going to write a book about how western medicine had failed this immigrant family but by the end of it had to admit that the only functional years of the child's life were due to western medicine -- there's a quote where she's talking to a nurse about the problems western medicine has with intercultural understanding and communication and the nurse just flatly says to her "Western medicine saves lives." The problem with "Western" medicine is that it works too well. We keep people alive forcibly way past the expiration date.
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Nov 2, 2016 12:35
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When I used to teach and was doing a group project I would get them to type their names into the computer during class. If they did it in pinyin it would take about 5 minutes for 50 students, if they used characters it would take 30 minutes - 1 hour since they have to find the right character, realise that it isn't the correct character and that they can't spell their own name and repeat. I'd try to get them to use pinyin but if you have one kid use hanzi early on in the process everyone else will do it no matter how many times you tell them not to because that guy used characters so it means we should do it like that too.
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Nov 2, 2016 12:41
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Uncle told me (via Chinese character typing) when I was going to Ocean Park to see the Red Cats and I thought he meant Red Pandas but he just meant regular pandas and got the character wrong. But they're in the same area of Ocean Park so I saw them both anyway
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Nov 2, 2016 12:51
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Nov 2, 2016 12:52
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actually thinking about it mods please change my name to Hung Mao
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Nov 2, 2016 13:01
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I don't know, on my phone I much prefer typing Chinese characters than English words. When you have the pinyin down, it's a real breeze.
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Nov 2, 2016 13:49
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I learned everything I need to know about the Chinese building the railway in the US from Shanghai Noon. Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson were a sweet pair, I tell you hwhat.
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Nov 2, 2016 13:51
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Alot of the good peepee things that we discussed in this thread happening in one story: http://www.ejinsight.com/20161102-wenzhou-tourists-arrested-in-australia-for-urinating-in-garden/ quote:When approached by the police, the two tried to flee. The older man got into an argument with the police and resisted arrest, according to the press release. Baton use up?
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Nov 2, 2016 13:57
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http://imgur.com/gallery/Hvnvb Imgur album about Vietnamese children being sold or abducted into China for some hillbilly garbage to marry because a local Chinese girl won't do it.
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Nov 2, 2016 14:18
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