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| OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6857 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French | Message 65 of 80 17 September 2009 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6301 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 66 of 80 17 September 2009 at 10:34pm | IP Logged | ||
Ha,ha. Funny. I had not thought about that. This is LESS of a problem on a computer because you can adjust the font size. I carried a magnifying glass and a dictionary around all the time my first year here. Ah, what a pain it was to look the characters up in a dictionary. Now all I have to do is write them on my iPod screen with my finger... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6857 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French | Message 67 of 80 17 September 2009 at 10:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree, it is quite easy to adjust the font size. The Tong Wen Tang add-on for Firefox has this function, in addition to converting a webpage from simplified to traditional and vice versa with one click.
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| Z.J.J Senior Member China Joined 5615 days ago 243 posts - 305 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 68 of 80 18 September 2009 at 5:51am | IP Logged | ||
Well, that's also the crux of the problem, mainly because the simplification was officially orientated as an interim strategy of Chinese writing system (the simplifying method was picking the characters that have fewer strokes as standard style, for example, 于 is simpler than 於 after all), instead of a permanent policy "once and for all", actually the ultimate goal was to realize latinization or cyrillization completely, but the absurd plan almost came to nothing after a long-term research, and soon the 2nd round of simplified characters were promptly abolished, so, some complex characters had no opportunities to be optimized reasonably through so-called 3rd and 4th round of simplification, and this is the reason why I always called simplifying project an unfinished building of inferior quality, yes, the governing body in charge of simplification should've been responsible for the historical tragedy. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Z.J.J Senior Member China Joined 5615 days ago 243 posts - 305 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 69 of 80 18 September 2009 at 6:12am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks. Perhaps the problem of readability might be basically resolved by enlarging the size and choosing the font 「新細明體」（PMingLiu）while visiting the websites or reading the posts of traditional characters. In fact, some complex simplified characters have this problem too, if the font isn't large enough. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Z.J.J Senior Member China Joined 5615 days ago 243 posts - 305 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 70 of 80 18 September 2009 at 7:12am | IP Logged | ||
In China, there's an idiom called 「削足適履」, it means "cut the feet to fit the shoes", if the shoes aren't very suitable for somebody's feet, he/she won't cut his/her feet to fit the shoes. If some characters don't perform well on screen, we should improve the readability with the help of developing computer technology, and it's believed that science and technology were born to service for the people. Besides 新細明體／新细明体, on the whole, the fonts of "Microsoft JhengHei", "Microsoft YaHei", "Mac LiHei Pro" aren't inclined to be blurred, either. Just have a try. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5772 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 71 of 80 18 September 2009 at 9:30am | IP Logged | ||
Yes, for the Canto example. But 渠 holds etymologically, while 人 does not. Characters with the same rhyme of 人 usually end up in written Taiwanese as ...in，not ...ang; and for the initial, j.., not l.... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Z.J.J Senior Member China Joined 5615 days ago 243 posts - 305 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 72 of 80 18 September 2009 at 9:51am | IP Logged | ||
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If I remember rightly, in karaoke bars, the characters「什儂」(who) of Minnanese lyrics are more frequently written as「誰人」(siáⁿ-lâng).
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