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@skyblond do you know if there is some sort of asian language short hand? If not chinese any of the languages that use kanji like charachers (single characters to represent words). Im curious about forms of shorthand that migbt be applied to such scripts.
@freemo If I'm not misunderstanding, there is some sort of short hand in Chinese, but mostly for professional usage, like clerk, but nowadays we almost exclusively use computer and use PinYin to type Chinese charactors, I can achive about 90 to 100 wpm (or cpm, c for character).
Here is a picture I found on the internet, it shows the markers for some character.
I think the doctor still use that kind of shorthands? I can never read those.
@skyblond In latin based letter languages shorthand is typically limited to secretaries. This is interesting.
When you say you get 100wpm are you coubting a word as a single kanji character?
@freemo And for professional shorthand usage, PinYin is not the only option, there are special keyboards which designed to use custom key combinations to input character and/or word. But most of the time a qwert keyboard is working just fine. I think that special keyboard is not that need as we now have more advanced method to infer which word might fit your need based on your input context. I still remember when I was young, the default Chinese input method from WindowsXP is a nightmare to use. So we have to install dedicated software to replace it. Nowadays I'm super fine with the default input method from Windows10. And for linux, I think Rime is not that bad.
@freemo Not really, for madarin and most dialect we use the character as is. We do use acronym for curse words. But Cantonese might be different, they use some latin letter to represent pronunciation (I guess?), but I don't know Cantonese so I might be wrong.
@skyblond when you have a casual conversation with other chinese do you use kanji based words, or latin letters to represent mandarin chinese?
Im assuning you speak madarin and not one of the other chinese dialects. Not sure just how different the other forms are though.