By the way, as I’m doing the necessary research, I am absolutely falling in love with Chinese and Japanese, and the histories behind their writing systems. I had no idea. You could spend your whole life studying those, and it would be a life well spent.
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Whoa, I just managed to write “weather” in Japanese using a romaji keyboard, a hiragana keyboard, and by drawing the kanji shapes directly on my trackpad. It took me a few hours to get there, giving me a net speed of about… 0.02 wpm. But I feel rather accomplished! AMA.pic.twitter.com/Pb4Wqhc0qf
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Replying to @mwichary
Handwriting input on touch devices is so amazing. Handwriting input via a Thinkpad nubbin is… uh, not so amazing, but usually the IME is smart enough to understand my chicken scratch anyway!
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Replying to @melissalouie
Oh, cool! I never thought of the ThinkPad thing. I just typed “weather” on the swipe ten-key on my phone!!! Next level.
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Replying to @mwichary
I wouldn’t recommend the nubbin, it’s very hard to get long curved strokes right and the character usually turns out cramped. Mouse or trackpad are pretty good if touch isn’t an option. Also I never learned 10-key method of input :P
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Replying to @mwichary
Romaji if I know the pronunciation (or at least the pronunciation of individual characters and can use that for lookups); handwriting if I don’t (esp. complicated kanji)
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One day I’d love to use this method of input though http://www.google.co.jp/ime/patapata/
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Replying to @melissalouie
Oh, no, you didn’t just send a Google April Fools joke to me… that’s like the bottom of the barrel of humour. ;·)
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Replying to @mwichary
Not even a Solari board can convince you otherwise, hmm?
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I’m a huge fan, actually.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/837751596431745024 …
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