Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac...
by Tyr42 on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:50AM
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Do you know when you would use 计算着 over 电脑[dian nao]?
计算着 I guess more literally translates to "one who computes", whereas 电脑 translates to "electric brain" which is a way more fun image, but I have no idea how the usage varies.
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac...
by gurkendoktor on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:44PM
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I am not a native speaker and terrible at googling this, but I've once heard that 電腦 was originally the Taiwanese way of saying it and 計算機 the Chinese way, in the same way that 'program' is still called 程式 on one side of the strait and 程序 on the other, or 'internet' is either 網絡 or 網路. The names of movies and video games are also generally different (PRC, HK, TW).
計算機 is a calculator, not a computer, in Taiwan: https://tw.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=計算機
Compare with Baidu in the PRC: http://image.baidu.com/search/index?tn=baiduimage&ie=utf-8&w...
Edit: Oops, I didn't even realise that the parent poster asked about 計算著. That one I've never seen.
Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac...
by et-al on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:35PM
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计算着 [jisuanji] is the older usage that harkens back to the days when computers were mainframes and terminals and not in every household. Generally everyone says 电脑 [diannao] these days.