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Article about people forgetting characters

ximeng   June 26th, 2013 6:04p.m.

http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1269189/written-chinese-collides-digital-age-asia

I still see people on the MTR in Hong Kong writing characters by hand on their phones for text messages.

Tortue   June 27th, 2013 1:30a.m.

"I still see people on the MTR in Hong Kong writing characters by hand on their phones for text message"

Mainly because of the cantonese vocab

learninglife   June 27th, 2013 3:29a.m.

another reason is that esp. older people are not so good at pinyin,
considering the fact that pinyin wasnt invented before the 1960s.

snowcreature99   June 27th, 2013 11:15p.m.

All I know is that waaaaay back in the day, second time I leaned Chinese, I spent a semester abroad in Nanjing in 1991.

My roommate was an ordinary student there. And he practiced characters every single day.

Bet he would have killed to have Skritter!

-b

Mats   June 28th, 2013 4:07a.m.

Who knows, maybe we all will be helping chinese natives with 汉字 in the future ;)

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