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How are Chinese keyboards designed?

December 08, 2007 at 12:40 PM

I'm puzzled by how a Chinese keyboard can work - with so many thousands of characters, surely every keyboard would have to be enormous to work (unless that's... Read more

Ghoti

December 08, 2007 at 12:35 PM

Earlier this week my Professor pointed out a famous author George Bernard Shaw who often cited the word ghoti to try and promote an English spelling reform.  &n... Read more

"character sanity" or 中文 outside-in

December 08, 2007 at 04:44 AM

大家好！Hello everyone. What do I mean by "Chinese outside-in?" Any idea? [PAUSE] When one learns a language that is not ones maternal language, then one often sees thin... Read more

Did Frank get a job?...

December 08, 2007 at 03:36 AM

He's been curiously absent from the cpod boards. Read more

Facebook messages in Chinese

December 07, 2007 at 05:52 PM

I've gotten myself into a facebook exchange that I don't understand completely and thought some of you might want to help me. I have one those little Fluff a... Read more

characters are too small

December 07, 2007 at 05:24 PM

Especially on the exercises pages, characters are too small. I'm using a magnifying function on my screen but still find difficult sometimes to detect characters... Read more

comments … comments

December 07, 2007 at 10:11 AM

I mentioned this in another thread yesterday ( "Scheduled Maintenance" - Behind the Scenes ), but I just came across a second case of lessons where comment... Read more

鄂, 斐, 胚, 瞻, and 孽

December 07, 2007 at 07:23 AM

Ah, Friday. The day of long lunches and sleepy afternoons. It's our last Character Insanity of the week, so let's make it a good one, shall we? Today's theme: uncomm... Read more

Bulk Select "BookMark" to remove from queue or add to queue?

December 07, 2007 at 02:49 AM

Well took a spin at the lessons and picked a few to listen too using the bookmark feature. However, I cannot seem to find a bulk select feature to remove them all fr... Read more

Chinese Pod members can't read Chinese, zhen ke lian!

December 07, 2007 at 12:26 AM

Months and months ago I posted a story I had written in chinese   http://chinesepod.com/connections/viewpost/xiaoh... which was meant to be a story which I star... Read more