Re:Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork
by TylerE on Monday May 05, 2014 @11:00PM
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Physical size of an input device to enter each character with a single press.
Re:Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork
by Dewie on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @04:48AM
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I have seen a video of - I can't seem to find it - someone using a sort of keyboard, only smaller. She would use fewer key presses to type in English than on a standard keyboard, because she was typing in one grapheme at a time, or something like that.
Do the Chinese really think of Mandarin as containing discrete characters? Or do they consider the signs as compositions of each other? I haven't tried writing Chinese or something like that with some input device. Have you?
How? With a smaller alphabet, words can tend to comprise of more letters; with a larger alphabet, words can tend to comprise of fewer letters. It might be that smaller is better in this case for storing text efficiently, but I don't see how it obviously follows.