Chinese texting?

damn. good question, just looked it up on yahoo answers:

I'll use "你好吗" (how are you) as an example. In hanyu pinyin, it's "nǐ hǎo ma". So you just have to type "ni" and select 你 out of all the other words similarly pronounced as "ni". Repeat for 好 and 吗.

confusing-yes.
 
One time on an airplane i sat next to a chinese guy typing, and he would type the word with the same letters we use and then select a chinese letter
 
in japan they have cell phone novels, where you subscribe and receive chapters as texts from the authors phone as they are being produced.
 
actually, if you look to an iphone you can change it where there's an area to draw symbols in and then you pick the actual one that you want
 
I'm sure they don't us the methods were talking about any more, they probably came up with some craZy technology, that's cheaply made and covered in lead based paint.
 
It may sound hard to do the Pin Yin for every chinese character for chinese texting but its easy for them here cause they learn PinYin in school. I got a phone here(in china right now) though and on a few keys there are character strokes so maybe they can actually type like that somehow..
 
!! just thinking the same thing but arabic. i was in harrods today and all the rich arabs were in there texting away on their blackberrys and i was wondering if they had a special keypad or they spelled everything out...
 
Fucking arabs need to GTFO of Harrods. Can't go past there now without hearing some shitty middle-eastern music being blasted.

(inb4 racist)
 
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and i just tried the chinese keyboard on iphone, it's crazy. check out the first japanese one too they have all these smilies
 
This. Chinese characters are made up of parts just like English words are made up of different letters. I don't exactly know how it works though...
 
chinese sentences are usually shorter than english sentences anyhow, so they win in the end
 
i saw some people texting on the subways when i was in japan. they type the pinyin in english and the character just shows up. much like in microsoft word when you type (R) it will automatically become the registered trademark symbol. most people in asia are taught english early in school and can speak it/write it.
 
i unfortunately take chinese in my high school and when w have to write essays i realize how frustrating the little Asian people in china must be their whole lives doing this. i fail every essay because i say fuck it after a sentence or two.
 
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