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tertius_decimus OP t1_ixlqtyx wrote

Reply to comment by Captain_Crispyy in Ignorant question to Asians by tertius_decimus

Thank you for such elaborate reply!

So, pinyin is like a Lego brick: on keyboard you have a set of building blocks to form a symbol. Makes perfect sense. I'm well familiar with old school mobile phone layout (2 - ABC, 3 - DEF and so on). Once you familiarize yourself with the layout, typing becomes a second nature. The same applies to pinyin.

Again, thanks! Every day you learn something new.

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Nuap OP t1_ixlpkm8 wrote

Reply to comment by Eccomi21 in Frog Mini with GMK Umka by Nuap

Understood 🫡 I am a keyboard enthusiast too but I sometimes get caught up chasing clout.

This board has broken-in Cherry blacks lubed with 205g0 on the “laminated” plate with soft tadpoles. It’s a really nice sound signature and the feel reminds me of o-ring burger Mount with plates like FR4.

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Captain_Crispyy t1_ixlp9j1 wrote

Reply to comment by tertius_decimus in Ignorant question to Asians by tertius_decimus

I cannot answer for Japanese because I don’t speak it. I do speak a bit of Chinese but I’m still learning. Chinese uses pinyin (拼音) to input characters on a computer. That means that you “build” your characters by adding lines on top of each other to form the final character. You need to type on multiple keys to build one character. Pretty much like some European languages adding accents on plain letters by pressing the accent key and then the letter. Chinese is easy to use since some words are only one character or 2. I can compare pinyin system to old phones with ABC on 1, DEF on 2 etc. After it’s muscle memory like the rest. It takes time but once you get it, you can type very fast. It’s a very simplified explanation. Look into pinyin online to dig deeper if you want to As for the amount of characters used, I think it isn’t very relevant to think that way. As opposed to latin languages and their letters, characters have a meaning alone and grouped. Each character can be used more or less frequently depending of what you are doing or what is the topic you are writing about.

Again, I’m not a native speaker but languages is my job and passion. My colleagues from China explain it that way, but it might be very simplified. Im sorry if something isn’t 100% accurate or wrongly worded. Hope this helps

Edit: typo

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Eccomi21 t1_ixlosuj wrote

Reply to comment by Nuap in Frog Mini with GMK Umka by Nuap

Thank you ^^ Didn't mean to come off as rude, just a trend I keep noticing. See all kinds of things. Plants, amiibos, other techgear, when what I am personally expecting is keycaps, or pictures of interesting mods, something that looks less like advertisement for any given keyboard

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day_li_ly t1_ixlo63l wrote

Reply to comment by tertius_decimus in Ignorant question to Asians by tertius_decimus

I use Pinyin (i.e. a romanization standard of Chinese characters) to type in an IME (input method environment). The IME suggests characters and words with that romanization from its database, which I can then select.

An average native Chinese speaker knows anywhere between 3000 and 8000 Chinese characters. For daily communication, 3000 is more than enough.

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