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Forum: Reading and Writing 13th March 2008, 03:54 PM
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You pasted it correctly, but you didn't really mention what the problem was. You'll have to be a
bit more specific than saying "it doesn't work correctly" if you want us to be able to help...
Forum: Reading and Writing 13th March 2008, 10:27 AM
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Not on this forum, which is why perhaps we are perhaps a little confused by what it is that you
are trying to do. So far it would seem you've only posted in this thread and in the thread
regarding...
Forum: Reading and Writing 13th March 2008, 08:45 AM
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You'll have to forgive me because I'm not entirely clear, but if you can send her letters via the
postal system, what's to stop you sending her English letters that way? And if you both want to...
Forum: Reading and Writing 11th March 2008, 02:06 PM
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You misunderstand me. My point was that if you are typing phrases like that into a translation
program, then they will be translated too. When you write 'calligraphic characters' it will
translate...
Forum: Reading and Writing 11th March 2008, 12:01 PM
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Well, to be honest, I have my doubts that she understands what you're talking about.
Between errors introducted by translation software, plus the way you've been describing things
(calligraphic...
Forum: Reading and Writing 10th March 2008, 01:12 PM
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Heh, I didn't even notice this before. Jovey's earlier post only had question marks for #1, and so
my translation was from the picture in #3. But then his later post includes the actual Chinese
for...
Forum: Reading and Writing 10th March 2008, 08:43 AM
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It's the button on the 'reply to thread' toolbar that looks like this
http://www. /images/editor/quote.gif. Explanations are here...
Forum: Reading and Writing 8th March 2008, 08:07 PM
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The problem is that you think that #2 is an accurate translation of #1 and #3. It's not.
A better (but not necessarily great) translation would be along the lines of:
You're lucky that this was a...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th March 2008, 09:08 AM
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When Windows doesn't have Chinese fonts installed, then when it encounters a Chinese character, it
just writes ? (or sometimes an empty box) instead. All of those ?? in previous emails will turn...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th March 2008, 08:32 AM
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Not legally.
Almost certainly not. If she is Chinese, and is educated enough to communicate with you in English
then I would say she can most definitely read Chinese characters, so somewhere...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th March 2008, 07:41 AM
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That's right, the Chinese (and anyone else with Chinese fonts installed) don't see the little
question marks at all, they see something like the picture...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th March 2008, 07:06 AM
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Then you need to install Chinese fonts (http://www. /showthread.php?t=21976) on
your machine.
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th March 2008, 06:57 AM
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No, kǎishū is style of calligraphy, compared to say cǎoshū, lìshū etc. You can use it with
either simplified or traditional characters. Think of it like "printed" vs "cursive" script in
English. ...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th March 2008, 06:26 AM
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Here is a link (http://www.xawb.com/gb/node/2008-03/07/default.htm) to the website of a Xi'an
newspaper.
Forum: Reading and Writing 20th February 2008, 09:44 PM
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Like I said before, Chinese and English have a different word order and sentence structure.
Although what you are doing will possibly make sense for small things, for many things it will
simply be...
Forum: Reading and Writing 20th February 2008, 09:11 PM
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It's better to say characters instead of hieroglyphics.
You can't paste it as a literal sequence, because English and Chinese use different word orders
and sentence structuring. It will work for...
Forum: Reading and Writing 20th February 2008, 08:48 PM
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If she is in Xi'an then writing in simplified characters is all you need to do. The easiest input
method to use is the Google Pinyin IME (http://tools.google.com/pinyin/). Click on the big blue...
Forum: Reading and Writing 18th February 2008, 08:29 AM
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In mainland China, they write with simplified Chinese characters. If you were going to write using
English letters, then you would write in Hanyu Pinyin, which is the way of writing the...
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