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Cantonese Font with Pronunciation 3 years ago

This is pretty good for someone who can speak Cantonese but can't read/write it.

As an example, I speak Mandarin and can't read/write (much) Chinese characters as I spoke it at home while growing up in Australia. So, I can imagine there'd be quite a lot who are in a similar situation to me but with Cantonese who would benefit from this (not just as a learning tool).

I've been using the Zhongwen[0] browser extension to "read" websites that have Chinese characters for many years as hovering over Chinese characters will display a popup with the pronunciation ping yin. It may not be the speediest way of understanding a block of Chinese text.

I could imagine someone creating a browser extension that would replace the font used on the website(s) with the Cantonese Visual Font when the extension is enabled.

[0] https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen

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Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers 5 years ago

There's AltStore, but it's obviously not as straightforward as the Apple one. https://altstore.io/

Came across it while following the development and distribution of iSH (https://ish.app/), which has now made it into the main app store.

Prior to publishing to AltStore, iSH was only available on Test Flight, which has a limitation on the number of users who can join (10,000). So they'd periodically have to kick inactive users off the TestFlight so others could try it.

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Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea 9 years ago

I’m not sure how you got “day" out of it, the linked recording sounded (to me) more like "the", if you were trying to say the word "there" (but obviously without the "re").

My mums' native dialect is Teo Chiew, which is a variant of and falls under the Min Nan family of dialects (but can be quite different in many ways, a native speaker of one does not necessarily means mutual understanding of the others). And while similar, Teo Chiew uses a "dê” rather than "tê" for tea.

On another note, the area is also the origin of the "Gong Fu Cha" style tea ceremony. [1]

[1] https://www.kyarazen.com/chaozhou-gongfu-tea/

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Visual Studio for Mac 9 years ago

That's true. I found it useful when I recently paved my machine and had to reinstall everything. It's also helpful when you move to a new version of VS.

And yeah, I use a different login between home and work too.

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China Doesn't Understand the Concept of American Chinese Food (2014) 9 years ago

Not really a surprise. It's the same story elsewhere around the world. They had to adapt to survive. They firstly adapted local ingredients with techniques and flavours of home to cater to their fellow migrants, then they'd start adding some new dishes based on what they perceived as local tastes to try to attract the "native" population when just catering to their fellow migrants wasn't enough to survive.

How close a restaurants' dishes are to "authentic" ones depends largely on how many generations removed the chef is from their homeland.

Anyway, I'm of Chinese descent. First generation in my family born in Australia, but several more removed from China. So while the food that my family cooks retains Chineseness it also contains influences from the countries that my parents grew up in mixed in with ingredients that were sourceble in Melbourne, Australia in the 80s. That said, due to the relative distance of Australia to Asia during the mid to late 90s, more ingredients came in as the post-Vietnam war migrants settled here and had become further established in the community (so had capital to spend on luxuries like imported ingredients).

Some links that may be of interest: - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-21/humble-chinese-diner-m... - http://www.chia.chinesemuseum.com.au/biogs/CH01148b.htm - Chifa (Chinese Peruvian Cuisine) https://immigrationtalk.org/2013/07/17/chifa-the-story-behin... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Chinese_cuisine

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