{"id":51117,"date":"2021-06-01T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=51117"},"modified":"2021-06-01T09:39:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:39:25","slug":"character-confusion-three-child-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=51117","title":{"rendered":"Character confusion:  three-child policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"zh\" dir=\"ltr\">\u751f\u80b2\u8fd8\u662f\u751f\u8093\uff1f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GBPx07QSaT\">pic.twitter.com\/GBPx07QSaT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Chenyu_Liang (@chenyuliang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chenyuliang\/status\/1399264941962502147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>I won't get into the political and demographic confusion over the vacillating n-child policy in China (2, 1 [80s], 2 [2015], 3 [May 31, 2021]).\u00a0 My concern in this post is to get to the bottom of the confusion between two look-alike characters when they are input in computers.<\/p>\r\n<p>So what's the confusion in the above poster?<\/p>\r\n<p>The large characters intended to say:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">S\u0101n h\u00e1i sh\u0113ngy\u00f9 zh\u00e8ngc\u00e8 l\u00e1ile<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u4e09\u5b69\u751f\u80b2\u653f\u7b56\u6765\u4e86<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\"The three-child rearing policy is here\"<\/p>\r\n<p>But they actually say:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">S\u0101n h\u00e1i sh\u0113ngm\u00e1ng zh\u00e8ngc\u00e8 l\u00e1ile<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u4e09\u5b69\u751f\u76f2\u653f\u7b56\u6765\u4e86<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\"The three-child born blind policy is here\"<\/p>\r\n<p>[Update 6\/1\/21 10:35 AM:\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #fb232d;\">See the corrections in the second, third, and fourth comments below<\/span>.]<\/p>\r\n<p><b>For those who are not literate in Chinese characters<\/b>, can you spot the difference between what they wanted to write and what they actually wrote?\u00a0 Actually, even those who are literate in characters might not notice the error if it weren't pointed out to them.\u00a0 It is very subtle, so you can see how it would be easy to make this mistake if you were writing by hand.\u00a0 Sort of like the confusion between t\u01d4 \u571f (\"earth; soil\") and sh\u00ec \u58eb (\"warrior; scholar; knight; paladin\") that we recently discussed &#8212; a mistake that my highly literate wife consistently made.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to A Sino-Italian mistranslation morass\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=51018\" rel=\"bookmark\">A Sino-Italian mistranslation morass<\/a>\" (5\/15\/21)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Thoroughly earthy\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=32151\" rel=\"bookmark\">Thoroughly earthy<\/a>\" (4\/13\/17)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>y\u00f9 \u80b2 (\"to give birth to; to raise; to bring up; to rear; to educate; a surname\")<\/p>\r\n<p>sh\u0113ngy\u00f9 \u751f\u80b2 (\"fertility; give birth; bear\")<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>m\u00e1ng \u76f2 (\"blind\")<\/p>\r\n<p>sh\u0113ng m\u00e1ng \u751f\u76f2 normally doesn't really mean anything, though, if you force a reading out of it, can be understood as \"born \/ become blind\", but that wouldn't make sense in the context of the slogan on this poster.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Matthew Kosko, who called the above Tweet to my attention, wondered how this error (\u76f2 for \u80b2) happened.\u00a0 As someone who only uses Pinyin for computer input of characters, he correctly states that he would not be prone to such a shape-based mistake.\u00a0 Judging from the fact that the miswriting is restricted to the distortion of a single, minor, internal component, it seems to me that the most likely type of inputting that produced this particular error was with a fingertip or stylus on the glass of a cell phone \/ tablet or pad of a desktop computer.\u00a0 I wouldn't guarantee that, however, and if anyone wants to compare the input codes of \u80b2 and <span class=\"Hani headword\">\u76f2, I give abundant comparative data for the two characters:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"Hani headword\">\u80b2<\/span> (radical 130, <a title=\"Index:Chinese radical\/\u8089\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_radical\/%E8%82%89\">\u8089<\/a>+3 in traditional Chinese (Taiwan), \u8089+4 in Chinese (mainland China, Hong Kong), Japanese and Korean, 7 strokes in traditional Chinese (Taiwan), 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese and Korean, <a title=\"Index:Chinese Cangjie\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_Cangjie\">cangjie input<\/a> \u535c\u6208\u6708 (<a title=\"Index:Chinese Cangjie\/y\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_Cangjie\/y\">YIB<\/a>) or \u5927\u6208\u6708 (<a title=\"Index:Chinese Cangjie\/k\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_Cangjie\/k\">KIB<\/a>), <a title=\"Index:Chinese four corner\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_four_corner\">four-corner<\/a> <a title=\"Index:Chinese four corner\/0\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_four_corner\/0\">0022<sub>7<\/sub><\/a>, <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Chinese character description languages\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_character_description_languages#Ideographic_Description_Sequences\">composition<\/a> \u2ff3<a title=\"\u4ea0\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E4%BA%A0\">\u4ea0<\/a><a title=\"\u53b6\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E5%8E%B6\">\u53b6<\/a><a title=\"\u2e9d\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E2%BA%9D\">\u2e9d<\/a>(<span class=\"explain\" title=\"Mainland China\">G<\/span><span class=\"explain\" title=\"Hong \u039aong\">H<\/span><span class=\"explain\" title=\"Japan\">J<\/span><span class=\"explain\" title=\"Korea\">K<\/span><span class=\"explain\" title=\"Vietnam\">V<\/span>) or \u2ff1\u2ffb<a title=\"\u4e00\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E4%B8%80\">\u4e00<\/a><a title=\"\u53b6\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E5%8E%B6\">\u53b6<\/a><a title=\"\u2ebc\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E2%BA%BC\">\u2ebc<\/a>(<span class=\"explain\" title=\"Taiwan\">T<\/span>) or \u2ff3<a title=\"\u4ea0\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E4%BA%A0\">\u4ea0<\/a><a title=\"\u53b6\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E5%8E%B6\">\u53b6<\/a><a title=\"\u2ebc\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E2%BA%BC\">\u2ebc<\/a>(<code>U+2F982<\/code>))<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/cgi-bin\/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=80B2\">Unihan material<\/a> for numerous input systems and databases<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"Hani headword\">\u76f2<\/span> (<i>radical 109, <\/i> <a title=\"Index:Chinese radical\/\u76ee\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_radical\/%E7%9B%AE\">\u76ee<\/a>+3, 8 strokes, <i><a title=\"Index:Chinese Cangjie\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_Cangjie\">cangjie input<\/a><\/i> \u535c\u5973\u6708\u5c71 (<a title=\"Index:Chinese Cangjie\/y\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_Cangjie\/y\">YVBU<\/a>), <i><a title=\"Index:Chinese four corner\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_four_corner\">four-corner<\/a><\/i> <a title=\"Index:Chinese four corner\/0\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Index:Chinese_four_corner\/0\">0060<sub>1<\/sub><\/a>, <i><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Chinese character description languages\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_character_description_languages#Ideographic_Description_Sequences\">composition<\/a><\/i> \u2ff1<a title=\"\u4ea1\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E4%BA%A1\">\u4ea1<\/a><a title=\"\u76ee\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E7%9B%AE\">\u76ee<\/a>) U+76F2<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/cgi-bin\/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=76F2\">Unihan material<\/a> for numerous input systems and databases<\/p>\r\n<p>You pays your money and you takes your choice.\u00a0 Like Matthew and the vast majority of those who enter Sinographs in electronic devices, I find alphabetical inputting easier (more user friendly), faster, useful even when you don't know how to write a given character but know the sound of the morpheme it represents, etc.\u00a0 Nonetheless, there is a small minority of users who, perhaps &#8212; for one reason or another &#8212; are not familiar with Pinyin or are afraid they will forget how to write characters if they rely on computers to write characters for them.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><b>Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Sinographic inputting:  \" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=50368\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sinographic inputting: 'it's nothing' \u2014 not<\/a>\" (2\/22\/21)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to The wrong way to write Chinese characters\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=40819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D40819&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH9QTgSdqNiLmIl-qupHqom2-0sfA\">The wrong way to write Chinese characters<\/a>\" (11\/28\/18)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to \" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=28321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D28321&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG7qOvu9WEUw2ai3hVfG-WH6nLWlA\">'Spelling' errors in Chinese<\/a>\" (9\/26\/16)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Spelling mistakes in English and miswritten characters in Chinese\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D4377&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH7Leij13XUDCzb1wuH6apfvWhyqw\">Spelling mistakes in English and miswritten characters in Chinese<\/a>\" (12\/18\/12)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Mistakes in English and in Chinese\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=36698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D36698&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHuT-wfXRyjwjJ75Q1fEz4P42owUA\">Mistakes in English and in Chinese<\/a>\" (2\/13\/18)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to White dude challenges Chinese speakers in Shanghai\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=32518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D32518&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEpeSlHWjqZzEf4v4cxcNqpnJg6A\">White dude challenges Chinese speakers in Shanghai<\/a>\" (5\/5\/17)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Writing characters and writing letters\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=40604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D40604&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGDsja20aT5Ng9GxluL2vP0otFHGQ\">Writing characters and writing letters<\/a>\" (11\/17\/18)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D2473&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEMX_k3YLRFvWrpMyQDszoEguKYWA\">Character Amnesia<\/a>\" (7\/22\/10)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D4367&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFAmn2OhwogUrcwmg4HNRL58IY-cA\">Character amnesia revisited<\/a>\" (12\/13\/12)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Character amnesia redux\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=25291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D25291&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783725000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFB6M6HrLsrWqdAq_Nc9j_dK_tClQ\">Character amnesia redux<\/a>\" (4\/22\/16)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=5669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D5669&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783725000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGSXs-ikT5n4GqJqopF3syRQedyDw\">Spelling bees and character amnesia<\/a>\" (8\/7\/13)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=7142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D7142&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783725000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEIK8pxv4RniJ__Noz7kKGNasXFsQ\">Character amnesia and the emergence of digraphia<\/a>\" (9\/25\/13)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Dumpling ingredients and character amnesia\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=15217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D15217&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783725000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE8qHQyycQZzOW81nPuGkWguRYxPA\">Dumpling ingredients and character amnesia<\/a>\" (10\/18\/14)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Character amnesia in 1793-1794\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=11931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D11931&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783725000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFfoXNMl2j589jGCyIYSrSAWtQnoA\">Character amnesia in 1793-1794<\/a>\" (4\/24\/14)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Japanese survey on forgetting how to write kanji\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D4214&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783725000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHjceqdemT70JGEGsycGPUVIxUd0g\">Japanese survey on forgetting how to write kanji<\/a>\" (9\/24\/12)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Kanji amnesia of the week\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=47847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D47847&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1599316783725000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGNWpHIn67hAWc7NFFitOlegrJTvg\">Kanji amnesia of the week<\/a>\" (7\/25\/20)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Phonetic and orthographic confusion of Chinese characters\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=48369\" rel=\"bookmark\">Phonetic and orthographic confusion of Chinese characters<\/a>\" (9\/4\/20)<\/li>\r\n<li><a title=\"Permanent link to Pinyin in practice\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3491\" rel=\"bookmark\">Pinyin in practice<\/a>\" (10\/13\/11)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Pinyin memoirs\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=27423\" rel=\"bookmark\">Pinyin memoirs<\/a>\" (8\/13\/16)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to The future of Chinese language\r\n          learning is now\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=11580\" rel=\"bookmark\">The future of Chinese language learning is now<\/a>\" (4\/5\/14)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Firestorm over Chinese\r\n          characters\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=25876\" rel=\"bookmark\">Firestorm over Chinese characters<\/a>\" (5\/23\/16)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Backward Thinking about\r\n          Orientalism and Chinese Characters\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=25776\" rel=\"bookmark\">Backward Thinking about Orientalism and Chinese Characters<\/a>\" (5\/16\/16)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Chinese character inputting\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=21729\" rel=\"bookmark\">Chinese character inputting<\/a>\" (19\/17\/15)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Stroke order inputting\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3533\" rel=\"bookmark\">Stroke order inputting<\/a>\" (10\/30\/11)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Cantonese input methods\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=17231\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cantonese input methods<\/a>\" (1\/20\/15)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Google Translate Chinese\r\n          inputting\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4446\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Translate Chinese inputting<\/a>\" (1\/27\/13)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Creeping Romanization in Chinese\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4157\" rel=\"bookmark\">Creeping Romanization in Chinese<\/a>\" (8\/30\/12)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Chinese Typewriter\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1548\" rel=\"bookmark\">Chinese Typewriter<\/a>\" (6\/30\/09)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Chinese typewriter, part 2\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3092\" rel=\"bookmark\">Chinese typewriter, part 2<\/a>\" (4\/17\/11)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Zhou\r\n        Youguang, Father of Pinyin\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=9719\" rel=\"bookmark\">Zhou Youguang, Father of Pinyin<\/a>\" (1\/14\/14)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Zhou\r\n        Youguang, 109 and going strong\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=17097\" rel=\"bookmark\">Zhou Youguang, 109 and going strong<\/a> \" (1\/13\/15)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Swype\r\n        and Voice Recognition for mobile device inputting\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=9885\" rel=\"bookmark\">Swype and Voice Recognition for mobile device inputting<\/a>\" (1\/22\/14) \u2014 esp. \u00b6\u00b6 3-5<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Language\r\n        notes from Macao and Hong Kong\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=13089\" rel=\"bookmark\">Language notes from Macao and Hong Kong<\/a>\" (6\/22\/14) \u2014 search 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