MEotW: zìmǎn
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can pondering the Needham Question help us in the Mandarin field?
“Never, never, never in this office say, ‘But we’ve always done it that way.’”
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) September 10, 2024
—Admiral Grace Hopper, computer programming pioneer
Re writing Mandarin with Chinese characters, many say, “But we’ve always done it that way.”
However, as _Lǔ Xùn_ asked, does that make it right? pic.twitter.com/eFCN6fPYtY
Chinese characters are the punched cards of writing systems. Punched cards were not totally impossible to use, but there are now much better and easier-to-use ways to control computers.
BinaryApe
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