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Anonymous

10/26/25(Sun)10:45:31 No.18106964

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Anonymous 10/26/25(Sun)10:45:31 No.18106964 Archived

Had the Mingkwai typewriter been mass produced, would It have helped millions to learn Chinese characters more easily?:
youtu.be/-IhuFgiWNS4?

Anonymous
10/26/25(Sun)10:58:57 No.18106980

Anonymous 10/26/25(Sun)10:58:57 No.18106980

The Chinese government introduced simplified characters by the time Lin Yutang was granted the patent of the typewriter, which he didn't even patent in China but the U.S.

Also, Yutang was pro-Kuomintang, and the CCP was especially paranoid after the civil war so no way they would have accepted his invention.

Anonymous
10/26/25(Sun)11:13:29 No.18107009

Anonymous 10/26/25(Sun)11:13:29 No.18107009

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>>18106980
Why didn't ROC adopt this then?

Anonymous
10/26/25(Sun)12:29:59 No.18107174

Anonymous 10/26/25(Sun)12:29:59 No.18107174

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>>18107009

Anonymous
10/26/25(Sun)14:39:56 No.18107489

Anonymous 10/26/25(Sun)14:39:56 No.18107489

>>18107009
>>18107174
This looks agonizingly slow.
Cool machine though.
Still not very efficient.

Anonymous
10/26/25(Sun)22:04:32 No.18108662

Anonymous 10/26/25(Sun)22:04:32 No.18108662

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>>18106964
sample page from that typewriter kek

Anonymous
10/27/25(Mon)00:59:54 No.18109039

Anonymous 10/27/25(Mon)00:59:54 No.18109039

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>>18106964
>Chinese characters

Holy shit, what a retarded language. Cool gadget though.

Anonymous
10/27/25(Mon)11:04:14 No.18109874

Anonymous 10/27/25(Mon)11:04:14 No.18109874

>>18106964
>have a (CG)V(X)T syllable structure
>decides to use the first logographic script they thought of and never change it to something sensible like an Abugida
why are they like this?

Anonymous
10/27/25(Mon)14:30:05 No.18110251

Anonymous 10/27/25(Mon)14:30:05 No.18110251

>>18109874
>>have a (CG)V(X)T syllable structure
Ancient Chinese sounded approximately like insectoid screeching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIkQSuZbbt0

Anonymous
10/27/25(Mon)14:45:45 No.18110278

Anonymous 10/27/25(Mon)14:45:45 No.18110278

>>18107009
There's not enough money in the world you could pay me to use this hellish torture device.
And I am learning to use the Telex.

Anonymous
10/27/25(Mon)17:59:55 No.18110715

Anonymous 10/27/25(Mon)17:59:55 No.18110715

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>>18107489
>>18110278
They even made it work with qwerty + pinyin since the triple drum system was really close to how pinyin input is on modern PCs. Lin Yutang was ahead of his time.