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Re:Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages: A S... by DiogenesKynikos on Monday April 24, 2023 @07:04AM (#35686027)
Smartphones have changed this. You can write characters directly on a touchscreen. It's not as popular of an input method as pinyin, but it's not uncommon either.

There's also Bopomofo, as an alternative to pinyin input.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo

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Re:Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages: A S... by zirgs on Monday April 24, 2023 @09:26AM (#35687368)
Writing characters on a touchscreen seems horrible.
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Re:Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages: A S... by gastlygem on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:43AM (#35697636)
You can write the most sloppy cursive Chinese character and your phone would recognize them just fine. Together with text prediction it's quite easy to get 40 characters per minute (probably equivalent of 80wpm in English), much faster than most people writing on paper.
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