Testing Asian Fonts (測試亞洲字體)

[khj]

I am testing how well ProBoards displays Unicode Asian fonts. If you don't recognize the rest of this post (i.e., no alphanumeric characters, only logograms), that means it worked!



我喜歡收集郵票
我喜欢收集邮票

[Gordon Lee]

Greetings Mr. khj
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"我喜歡收集郵票 我喜欢收集邮票" equals "I love collecting tickets. I love collecting stamps" ?
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Respectfully,

Gordon Lee

[khj]

They are both "I like to collect stamps". Top is in traditional script and bottom is in simplified script, but the sentence is the same.

[Gordon Lee]

Greetings Mr. @ khj
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You'll notice I edited my comment. I used Bing Translate the first time by going to Bing. It gave me "Love" and "Like". The second time I just highlighted and right clicked the scripts and settled my cursor on "Translate with Bing." That gave me "Love" and "Love". I reckon there is a fine degree of difference within Bing.
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Respectfully,

Gordon Lee

[khj]

I dislike using Bing (like most things from MS, it has a lot of "issues"), so I disabled it on my Windows (or as much as I could, anyway).

The correct translation is "like".

Love is a single character: 愛

Actually, Google Translate doesn't always translate it correctly either.

[zepherusbane]

我沉迷于集邮

[zepherusbane]

나는 우표 수집에 중독되어 있습니다

[kacyds]

[khj]

OK, Kris...

(same in any language)

[JanetC]

Now that I understand

[zepherusbane]

Sept 5, 2019 14:55:11 GMT -5 khj said:

OK, Kris...

(same in any language)

There were only two choices for that in 대한민국 when I was living there, "OB" or "Dry".

I couldn't find a picture of what the labels used to look like, but here is the modern version for OB, Dry was another type of OB (we used to joke that it came from the middle of the barrels of OB). OB would usually sell for 800 won and Dry would usually be 1000 won:

[Gordon Lee]

Greetings Mr. khj,
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What tickets do you like? Train tickets, bus tickets, lottery tickets, or speeding tickets?
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Respectfully,

Gordon Lee

[khj]

The reason Google has difficulty in doing Chinese-English translations has to do with compound words, which are few in English but very prevalent in other languages (yes, Google has trouble with German-English translations because German takes compound words to another level/dimension).

In Chinese, the word for stamp is literally "postal ticket", but together they mean postage stamp.

[khj]

So, in case anyone was wondering, Chinese dictionaries are set up very different from English dictionaries. While there are 10K+ characters in traditional Chinese script, a decent dictionary will list at least 6K+. Mine has 7331 main entries.

But the bulk of the dictionary is composed of a list of compound words/phrases after the main entry. Because pairing up Chinese characters can result in pretty significant changes in the meaning (i.e., not always understood literally). The sub-listings can be anywhere from a couple to dozens. Without the bulky sub-listings, the dictionary would be quite thin compared to English dictionaries, but would also be less useful. I know everybody probably already has one, but here is an example of the listing for "postal" from my Chinese-English dictionary, where I have circled the sub-listing for stamp in red.

[kacyds]

Sept 6, 2019 14:19:15 GMT -5 khj said:

So, in case anyone was wondering....

Not today, and probably not to tomorrow either... 

[khj]

Go drink another after work!