The Chinese typewriter from the 1930s

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there a link from a source other than xitter? We should not be normalizing the use of a platform that supports fascism, racism, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobobia, transphobia, antisemitism and other bigotry.

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  • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’d think people on the fediverse would understand this but I’m beginning to realize that for some it’s just another “social media” platform to add to their collection.

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also a source tbat shows it in action.

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  • Llewellyn@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We should not be normalizing the use of a platform that supports fascism, racism, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobobia, transphobia, antisemitism and other bigotry.

    You mean the internet?

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    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. I mean havens of conservatism like Twitter, Truth Social and NAMBLA.

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• Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, this looks like a goddamn nightmare. P

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Might as well just use a pen to save time…

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• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know nothing about Chinese characters but you would have to think it’d be easier to break all the characters into basic elements and have a dictionary that told the user what elements to add.

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honzi/Hanzi/Kanji/whatever you want to call them are mostly made of base parts called radicals that form a whole, but the problem is that they are not the same size/position in different characters. For example, the character for lady 女 is squished to the left in the word for good 好 but squished to the bottom in peaceful 安 and squished to the top left in anger 怒.

    And it’s not enough to say “why not just split those half character radicals into full characters and make compound terms” because while 好 means ‘good’, 女子 means ‘maiden’.

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems inefficient.

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• datendefekt@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thoroughly recommend the book “The Chinese Typewriter”. It goes through the various challenges that the Chinese language pose. How do you order characters, like in an alphabet? How it was encoded in Morse, or later on, in ASCII. And of course, the various attempts at Chinese typewriting. Actually quite fascinating!

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• Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there a way to see this without going to twitter?

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  • Deykun@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes! I originally found it posted on their TikTok account:
    https://www.tiktok.com/@thehuntington/video/7321812764421475630

    ;)

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