In Chinese, AI means cancer/cancerous

[wTFaMonkey]

to most people, Chinese is the word to summarize the dialects.
Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Shanghai-nese...Dongbei, Hunan, Hubei...etc

just like Japanese, hey, there are lots of different dialects in Japan~ but you still call the language Japanese no matter what dialect it is.
Tokyo-ben, Oosaka-ben, Touhoku-ben, Ryukyu-go...etc.

yes. But the OP is referring to the pinyin "AI" which is obviously mandarin. But it is different in Cantonese.

[imlmf]

i don't care what it is written in "English", it's Chinese(or Mandarin if you prefer), and it shouldn't be written in alphabet.

pinyin is in alphabet ok?

how else do you think many people type on a keyboard?
buy a chinese keyboard?

[jason816]

yes. But the OP is referring to the pinyin "AI" which is obviously mandarin. But it is different in Cantonese.

aiite.

[jason816]

pinyin is in alphabet ok?

how else do you think many people type on a keyboard?
buy a chinese keyboard?

pinyin is for people who doesn't know to write Chinese.

everybody in my office(90% Chinese) type Chinese using a Chinese keyboard, you are right!


see all those little bits and pieces of Chinese characters under the alphabets?
we type in those to combine it into a word.

[jason816]

example:
we type in "田" "戈" "口" "一"... to combine it into "國"(country)

that's how we type Chinese characters, pinyin is for losers that doesn't learn the art of Chinese.

[imlmf]

pinyin is for people who doesn't know to write Chinese.

everybody in my office(90% Chinese) type Chinese using a Chinese keyboard, you are right!


see all those little bits and pieces of Chinese characters under the alphabets?
we type in those to combine it into a word.

that's why i said "many people"

wubi is more efficient, but i doubt more people use that than pinyin

anyway, you know what op means, no need to nitpick

[wTFaMonkey]

just wondering. are you canto or mandarin?

[jason816]

that's why i said "many people"

wubi is more efficient, but i doubt more people use that than pinyin

anyway, you know what op means, no need to nitpick

just saying.

done and done.

[jason816]

just wondering. are you canto or mandarin?

born and raised in Hong Kong, received higher education in Japan.
i speak all 3 languages fluently. (Mandarin(or shall I say Pu-tong-hua), Cantonese, Japanese)

[imlmf]

example:
we type in "田" "戈" "口" "一"... to combine it into "國"(country)

that's how we type Chinese characters, pinyin is for losers that doesn't learn the art of Chinese.

what? losers?

everyone learns pinyin in elementery school
i guess that makes china full of losers, 1.3 billion of them

maybe not everyone's job is to type chinese all day

i never cared to learn wubi because i like pinyin better
you can type like you are talking
and i type fast enough with pinyin

japanese has nothing to do with this thread, please don't show off
but i give you credit for being able to speak mandarin fluently growing up in hongkong

[jason816]

what? losers?

everyone learns pinyin in elementery school
i guess that makes china full of losers, 1.3 billion of them

maybe not everyone's job is to type chinese all day

i never cared to learn wubi because i like pinyin better
you can type like you are talking
and i type fast enough with pinyin

you misunderstood, i said pinyin(when typing on a computer) is for losers.

(what da hell is wubi?)

[wTFaMonkey]

Im sure 99% of hong kong people know how to speak both mandarin and canto.


But its never the opposite. I hate it how Canto is being phazed out.

[jason816]

Im sure 99% of hong kong people know how to speak both mandarin and canto.


But its never the opposite. I hate it how Canto is being phazed out.

then you'd be wrong....
if you know the real mandarin... those spoken by HK people makes you laugh.

i am fortunate that my parents speak perfect Mandarin and i got to learn from them during my childhood.



enough is enough, back to basketball

[brantonli]

you misunderstood, i said pinyin(when typing on a computer) is for losers.

(what da hell is wubi?)

Aw I tried learning chongqi (yeah I can't be bothered to look up how to romaniticise it)but I gave up. Plus, China's going to take over HK anyway so might as well learn all the pinyin.

[imlmf]

五笔



have you heard when some of the hong kong artists speak mandarin? they crack me up. some are pretty good, but the others can barely express themselves. but i think they teach mandarin in school now.