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Re:HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts ... by awake on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:02AM (#20728344)
How quickly could China create a dataset to translate this into Cantonese though? Probably in a year or less. It’s a game of cat and mouse and the cat will win in the end.
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Re:HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts ... by s_Hogg on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:05AM (#20728348)
I thought the idea of a game of cat and mouse is that you never actually reach a conclusion?

Pace the obvious and awesome power of the Chinese surveillance state, nothing is foregone.

Edit: it's true that you could eventually translate the literal stuff back into Chinese characters, I'm sure, but that doesn't mean things are predetermined in a wider sense.

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