The Wubi Effect
Radiolab
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Phonetic-Based Input Systems Can Preserve Character Writing
In a competition, the winning typist was using Professor Wong's Who'll be. The Chinese state promote the idea of phonetic-based input systems for one major reason: to unify Pinyan in school. People like words that have more letters in them typed from the right hand of a kurti keyboard than not.
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