55. Mac OS is better at recognizing my awful kanji than the app I used before. Here’s “big bathhouse,” the first try:pic.twitter.com/S7XB4GKh6w
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55. Mac OS is better at recognizing my awful kanji than the app I used before. Here’s “big bathhouse,” the first try:pic.twitter.com/S7XB4GKh6w
Stroke count, order, & direction are all very important for writing kanji "correctly." I wonder if MacOS is doing shape recognition rather than a more traditional approach. For example, check out this stroke order diagram http://jisho.org/search/%23kanji%20 …漢
Ah, interesting. I assumed shape recognition only. Perhaps that’s why the other program failed so badly on the barista’s “welcome”?
I'd bet that's at least part. Also, looks like Twitter didn't like the kanji in my URL, here's the example I meant to paste http://bit.ly/2BH8WWz
Also for the ようこそ on your cup, if you're not familiar with the writing system it's hard to know which strokes are actually part of the word, which strokes belong to which character, and conventions like spacing.
Yes, that occurred to me, too. I would, however, at some point expect computers to figure all of this out for me. ;·) Is there such a thing in Japanese as stroke shapes changing when you do casual handwriting, compared to e.g. proper calligraphy?
Yeah, absolutely. Casual writing will gloss over the details of the shapes. For example, compare the 3rd character (ko) from the top on your cup to the more formal calligraphic-style font on the right. In the barrista's hand, ko almost looks like 2 straight lines.pic.twitter.com/DXAzJE6Ef4
Thanks! And how about these four dots at the bottom…?
Not sure what that is, but it's no character or punctuation that I've seen. My best guess is stylistic, like a burrr/cold effect 'cause it's a
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The \ next the top character and the / next to the dots form a speech bubble 

I think those "four dots" at the end are just exclamation marks
Nice thread and comments btw
Yes!!! Makes perfect sense. And they have to be squished for vertical space.
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