Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet

Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by dredmorbius on Saturday July 28, 2018 @02:13AM (#17631838)

The handicap for Chinese and Asian languages is charactersets and input. A finite phonetic alphabet is a tremendous technical advantage when keyboarding, and alternatives really haven't proved superior.

(I'm entering this via soft-keyboard and stylus, painfully, with many typos. The fact that the interface could be trivially modified, but hasn't and isn't, and yet remains so deficient, doesn't speak well to prospects here.)

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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by dzhshnacct on Saturday July 28, 2018 @02:27AM (#17631878)

hey thats one of the things i've worked on

see my first submission a few days ago on zh android ime with devanagari

with zhuyin and alternatives chinese input is not a problem and this is going to even be less of a problem with voice input in future

in fact the input problem only tightened the link chinese have to tech via their phones

but pinyin needs to go away or chinese will lose their culture in the long term latinization is going to lead to christianization

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