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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
What I've got is a document in Microsoft Word that contains Pinyin words with tone numbers, for example:
Hi everyone.
大家好.
da4jia1 hao3.
So I want to highlight the WHOLE DOCUMENT, click a button, and see this:
Hi everyone.
大家好.
dàjiā hǎo.
In other words, it ignores everything without a number, and converts everything with a number to ...
Posted in Computer | 12 Comments »
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
I just found out about a blogish list of hip, new Chinese words that the ShanghaiDaily puts out called Buzzword.
Here's the editor's purpose statement:
Frequently, readers ask us for help when new Chinese phrases or terms pop up in the press or daily conversations. In an attempt to improve the rendering ...
Posted in Computer, Vocabulary | 3 Comments »
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
As I mentioned here, I've often wanted a way to know whether an email from a Chinese stranger (like 张安平) is from a man or woman. There's a cool new (to me) tool at Chinese-Tools that can help.
Presenting the Chinese Name Gender Guesser!
It immediately guessed that 张安平 was a boy ...
Posted in Computer | 3 Comments »
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