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Error

PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2001 1:49 am
by pjshimmer
The BIG5 character for "rock" is "shi2", not "dan4".<br><br>

Re: Error

PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2001 10:25 am
by STSH
There are quite a few of these errors. For instance, the character for "Flower" is pronounced in Cantonese as "Fa", but the computer generated word is "Dut".<br><br>One I'm less certain about it the word for Sand, which is generated as "Qui" but is pronounced "Sha".<br><br>There are several more which I can't recall at the mo, and probably even more which a native speaker could pick out.<br><br>Admin, is there any proposed method for correcting these encoded errors ? It would be very time-consuming to correct all of these in names one by one.<br><br>

Re: Error

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2001 3:29 am
by pjshimmer
Sand is Sha and DEFINITELY NOT Qui. Furthermore, as I pointed out once before, Red is Hong2 and not Gong. I would be interested in correcting these, even one by one (generic method hopefully).<br><br>

Re: Error

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2001 11:53 am
by STSH
Please list more of these, pj. I'm still learning the lingo, and I'm sure I've missed some.<br><br>

Re: Error

PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 6:51 pm
by pjshimmer
The problem sometimes is, as you may know, a few Chinese characters have alternative pronounciations, such as "No" or "not". It could be "Bu4" or "Bu2". So I think it's best if editors could have control over the spellings of the characters... unless you guys don't think you can handle it =)<br><br>