Loved this video but next time please do it in landscape

The sheer amount of characters seem like they'd be a nightmare to look through trying to find what you need. But I guess you get used to where it all is if you use it long enough.

@jonnyOysters

Жыл бұрын

Also it is sorted to frequency so you would know where the more common and less common characters. But it sure looks intimidating!

@xyan3191

Жыл бұрын

it's also sorted by components and radicals, which is exactly how Chinese dictionaries are sorted and used. Still a pain but man what an invention

Incredible mechanism wow! With so much character and detail, and how they thought of the movement

Great for watching on my ultra wide monitor.

Incredible thank you so much for demoing it!

Thanks for this all-too-short account. Please do another one demonstration specific use. Does each die represent a word, a basic character element or what?

thank you very much, was helpful.

Thank you ...👍

Incredible.

looks very similar to the 1915 japanes one ^^ I've just saw a vid on YT of.

@AaronShenghao

Жыл бұрын

Japanese use some Chinese characters to save space (in some cases one Chinese character can replace 2-3 Japanese characters). So they have the same problem.

I want one some day... I love the complexity of the Chinese language and how modern society continues to deconstruct it into things like this.

interesting

20/20 vision is needed to operate this machine. Also what if someone messed up the order of the characters?

@AaronShenghao

Жыл бұрын

It probably has a number or something like a traditional typewriter, telling you where that character should be.

@containternet9290

Жыл бұрын

The characters are separated into categories such as numbers, most commonly used pronouns, verbs, adjectives, nouns etc. Even so I just wonder how they were able to write idiomatic phrases/sentences, it must have been a nightmare. Yet, it's easier for a foreigner to learn how to operate this machine than actually to learn how to handwrite Chinese, but then one must know how to read Chinese in order to identify the characters on the typewriter.

@Levon_RnD

6 ай бұрын

​@@containternet9290The characters can't be sorted in that way. The same character or a compound word could be a verb, a noun or an adjective depending on the contest, just like in English. Besides, a narrator actually said, they are sorted by use frequency and by radicals in them(key elements within a character)

Hi

Too late for my idea, but here it goes: Why not instead of symbols on each key, they could have created strokes. Maybe a few rows of the most common complete symbols, but each key besides that would contain a stroke or the shape necessary to create characters by adding other strokes. I don’t know….maybe?!

@mydoooom

11 ай бұрын

This idea also came up back in the days, but that was already a very bad idea. Not only strokes alone are in various shapes and sizes, but also in different densities in different characters. There's also that characters are often composed with many other different characters. Those are only some reasons why would such a typewriter never fly.

@andrewli6606

10 ай бұрын

As the other user said, Chinese characters can have the same shape in a different size or place in the character that making a typewriter like that would be insanely impractical. Take the simple rectangle as an example. 中口品店叻 are all very common characters with a rectangle in there. It would just be impossible to design a typewriter that could take that into account.

Fascinating! But next time put the mike cord behind her. And two, have you ever been to a movie with a vertical screen????

God help you if it fell off a desk!

This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. First of all, that machine appears to be absolutely worthless seeing as how it's too complex to be cheap and slower than actually writing. And second... Portrait mode? Really? It's current year and we're still using portrait mode?

@Samtember

3 жыл бұрын

Have you ever thought about asking questions instead of making judgements? Maybe you’d actually learn something.

@anteconfig5391

3 жыл бұрын

@@Samtember I already did my research about this. I'm the kinda of person who would say exactly what you just said.

@rogersea6529

3 жыл бұрын

maybe you could email TikTok (Bytedance Douyin, Chinese owners) advising they go landscape they seem to be struggling in portrait- and your help might just save them

@timetraveller2300

3 жыл бұрын

what an idiot

@anteconfig5391

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexleanh technology is supposed to make life easier. This obstruction is an affront on everything I hold dear