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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: Pinyin
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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:31:19 GMT
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On 3 Jan 1997 03:20:32 GMT, in article <19970103031900.WAA02854@ladder01.news.aol.com>, Feiscreen <feiscreen@aol.com> wrote:
> Read my original post again. I was just illustrating that Pinyin is easy to
> learn, did not say anything about whether using it to input Chinese is
> good or bad. But since we are at it, you might be interested in knowing
> that , in the US, we cannot get any "zhuyinfuhao" keyboards (if there are
> such  things). I can use Pinyin to input Chinese faster than I write.

Whether there are "zhuyinfuhao" keyboards is irrelevant. I input in
Cangjei, but have never had a Cangjei keyboard (though there are such
things). Okay, I once had stickers, but I got them *after* I learnt to
touch-type in Cangjei. You don't look at the keyboard when you type,
do you?

At one time, I learnt to input French using a French Canadian layout,
using an ordinary US-layout keyboard (to the point that I expect a
French Canadian layout every time I use any keyboard).


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