QUOTE(Quistis88 @ Apr 29 2005, 11:49 PM)
- Finished mother's composition as well. Well, I'm missing three words because I have no idea what the pinyin are.
- She called and I told her I was irritated with the illegible printing, and she said I should be able to read it just fine. If I could read it just fine, I wouldn't have told her otherwise!
- Furthermore, I'm not exactly a frequent simplified-Chinese reader. I'm used to traditional and if a word in simplified form strays too far from what the traditional looks like, then I have trouble figuring out what it is.
- Spent the past half hour arguing over pinyin and words, and now my neck hurts from leaning towards my shoulder to keep the phone receiver in place while typing at the same time.
- She called and I told her I was irritated with the illegible printing, and she said I should be able to read it just fine. If I could read it just fine, I wouldn't have told her otherwise!
- Furthermore, I'm not exactly a frequent simplified-Chinese reader. I'm used to traditional and if a word in simplified form strays too far from what the traditional looks like, then I have trouble figuring out what it is.
- Spent the past half hour arguing over pinyin and words, and now my neck hurts from leaning towards my shoulder to keep the phone receiver in place while typing at the same time.
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ehh, i have a lot of troulble with the simplified characters too. i think the only one i really know for sure is "guo," but i've been writing the traditional way since i was a kid, and i can write the complicated version faster than i can write the simplified version. why did they teach us the traditional way for all these years, only to spring the simplified way and pinyin on us now?
i also have trouble reading my mom's printing. sometimes, when i'm really on a time crunch, she'll write out some of my chinese homework on stratch paper and have me copy it down once i get to class....except i can't read some of it, and for those words i try to imitate her exact squiggle so it looks like i knew what i was writing.