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Chinese texting?

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Butt=Tight
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How do people in china text, they have upwards of 8,000 symbols so they can't fit on a keyboard. Does anybody know?
Aug 10 2010 11:58AM
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Hemulen.
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i think they also can use regular letters to write the words as they pronounce them
Aug 10 2010 11:59AM
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.frenchy
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damn. good question, just looked it up on yahoo answers:

I'll use "你好吗" (how are you) as an example. In hanyu pinyin, it's "nǐ hǎo ma". So you just have to type "ni" and select 你 out of all the other words similarly pronounced as "ni". Repeat for 好 and 吗.

confusing-yes.

Aug 10 2010 12:01PM
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0ptions
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Pretty sure this.
Aug 10 2010 12:02PM
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2_fadez
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all i see are boxes, but I'll trust your knowledge in Mandarin
Aug 10 2010 12:03PM
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.frenchy
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090327213944AA4lRS2 

Aug 10 2010 12:04PM
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Balzberg
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One time on an airplane i sat next to a chinese guy typing, and he would type the word with the same letters we use and then select a chinese letter
Aug 10 2010 12:06PM
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Yung_Gnarley
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sheeeeesh
Aug 10 2010 12:09PM
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jeremy.g
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that sounds extremely difficult. i would probably just prefer to make phone calls
Aug 10 2010 12:11PM
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Butt=Tight
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Makes sense, thanks man.
Aug 10 2010 12:23PM
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Trollolo
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As far as languages go. We all know,

American > English > Everything else

Aug 10 2010 12:24PM
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1337
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hmmmmmmmm
Aug 10 2010 12:26PM
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207
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NOT A QUALITY POST!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
Aug 10 2010 12:27PM
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dex.
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you're fluent in american???
Aug 10 2010 12:27PM
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TOK
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classy
Aug 10 2010 12:27PM
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Username_42069
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in japan they have cell phone novels, where you subscribe and receive chapters as texts from the authors phone as they are being produced.
Aug 10 2010 12:29PM
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Darth_Veeder
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FUCK YEAH I AM!!!!! America FTW. Shock and awe losers, shock and awe.

/sarcasm.
Aug 10 2010 12:30PM
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Jordan
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actually, if you look to an iphone you can change it where there's an area to draw symbols in and then you pick the actual one that you want
Aug 10 2010 12:37PM
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Butt=Tight
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I'm sure they don't us the methods were talking about any more, they probably came up with some craZy technology, that's cheaply made and covered in lead based paint.
Aug 10 2010 12:40PM
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vincentlee223
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It may sound hard to do the Pin Yin for every chinese character for chinese texting but its easy for them here cause they learn PinYin in school. I got a phone here(in china right now) though and on a few keys there are character strokes so maybe they can actually type like that somehow..
Aug 10 2010 12:52PM
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.catierob
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!! just thinking the same thing but arabic. i was in harrods today and all the rich arabs were in there texting away on their blackberrys and i was wondering  if they had a special keypad or they spelled everything out...
Aug 10 2010 12:53PM
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thugaim
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Fucking arabs need to GTFO of Harrods. Can't go past there now without hearing some shitty middle-eastern music being blasted.




(inb4 racist)
Aug 10 2010 1:01PM
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Peter.
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Aug 10 2010 1:05PM
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.catierob
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theyre the only ones who can afford anything in there.
Aug 10 2010 1:07PM
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Peter.
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and i just tried the chinese keyboard on iphone, it's crazy. check out the first japanese one too they have all these smilies
Aug 10 2010 1:16PM
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FerrisBueller
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pyin-yin
Aug 10 2010 1:26PM
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FerrisBueller
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queer.

Mandarin > English > Spanish > everything else.
Aug 10 2010 1:27PM
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skiierman
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spanish is a dead language that's only good for odering betos.
Aug 10 2010 1:44PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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haha i lold
Aug 10 2010 1:46PM
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1337
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skiierman said it, so it must be true
Aug 10 2010 1:47PM
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Butt=Tight
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I only believe it because u said it, and I only believe you because of your pokemon
Aug 10 2010 1:51PM
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EastCoast315
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what the FUCK

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Aug 10 2010 1:59PM
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bustinthejus
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This. Chinese characters are made up of parts just like English words are made up of different letters. I don't exactly know how it works though...
Aug 10 2010 2:02PM
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bromigo
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and that is living prof of the progression on china
Aug 10 2010 2:03PM
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FBGM
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yep its called pin-yin.
Aug 10 2010 3:48PM
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sack
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chinese sentences are usually shorter than english sentences anyhow, so they win in the end
Aug 10 2010 3:50PM
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appa
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i saw some people texting on the subways when i was in japan. they type the pinyin in english and the character just shows up. much like in microsoft word when you type (R) it will automatically become the registered trademark symbol. most people in asia are taught english early in school and can speak it/write it.
Aug 10 2010 5:04PM
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mmmpoundcake
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i unfortunately take chinese in my high school and when w have to write essays i realize how frustrating the little Asian people in china must be their whole lives doing this. i fail every essay because i say fuck it after a sentence or two.
Aug 10 2010 5:59PM
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