Well, that makes sense, that pinyin means phonetic. That means Hanyu pinyin just means "phonetically represented Chinese" which is all it is. I remember the uproar when China went to using Hanyu Pinyin in all official communication and lots of Americans were pissed. Peking was better than Beijing, Sian was better than Xi'an, and so on. But it's consistent. And when someone all of a sudden makes me read Wade-Giles instead of Pinyin, it's so hard. I mean, Chinese is hard for me in general, but at least if it is written in full Pinyin with the tone symbols, I can say it--I have no chance if it isn't consistent.

My understanding is that Chinese character keyboards start with the roots of the characters and then add embellishments. I don't know for sure, but I have watched people type in Chinese characters as quickly as I can type in alphabetic things.

As someone who was engaged to Bill Gates' organizational psychologist's nanny, I got a kick out of this video.

Yes, he had an organizational psychologist. Her pantries were alphabetized.

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http://www.videosift.com/video/Train-Knocks-Man-s-Shoe-Off
"A Dangerous Way To Remove One's Show" or Shoe?
I've tried reading it the former way and really can't quite get the context in which it makes sense to place show in there.
I've just spent 7 hours squinting at that sentence and visualising myself in that situation. I've got through a whole jar of coffee doing so and I'm finding it difficult to type. I'll feel stupid if it's just because of a typo. Especially as the coffee money was the last part of my money and supposed to be for paying for my tea bags.
Also when I finally came to the realisation that it might be a typo I went through every letter of the alphabet before finally getting to 'e' and the penny dropped. I mean actually it's ridiculous I tried all the letters, but get this:
What the fuck is a 'shop'?

I like the alphabetical order.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Train-Knocks-Man-s-Shoe-Off
"A Dangerous Way To Remove One's Show" or Shoe?
I've tried reading it the former way and really can't quite get the context in which it makes sense to place show in there.
I've just spent 7 hours squinting at that sentence and visualising myself in that situation. I've got through a whole jar of coffee doing so and I'm finding it difficult to type. I'll feel stupid if it's just because of a typo. Especially as the coffee money was the last part of my money and supposed to be for paying for my tea bags.
Also when I finally came to the realisation that it might be a typo I went through every letter of the alphabet before finally getting to 'e' and the penny dropped. I mean actually it's ridiculous I tried all the letters, but get this:
What the fuck is a 'shop'?

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*promote

Flawless promtion there by berticus, executed with the style and panache only a kiwi could pull off Nice one babe, thanks xxxx

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>> ^MINK:
it was kinda funny
but complaining about not having a phonetic alphabet is REALLY retarded.


How come? I thought it was the only part that wasn't very stupid. My first language is written almost perfectly phonetically and I like it. The idea of a Spelling Bee here would be ridiculous since even small children can hear how to spell the words.

I guess it would be impossible to change the spelling of English words anymore, but I don't think the idea is stupid...

it was kinda funny

but complaining about not having a phonetic alphabet is REALLY retarded.

Thanks

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This is the cutest thing I've ever seen, and I finally have the power to *promote!

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Sorry. I tried to post this gem, too!

That was excellent. Although, she asked him to recite the alphabet, from Z to A, backwards, which would actually be from A to Z, right?