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Comment by duskwuff

4 years ago

> These days, new words are almost always combinations of multiple characters (often 2, occasionally 3-4).

Yep! For example, the most common Chinese term for "Internet" is 因特网. This is composed of three characters:

互: "mutual"

联: "join", "coupled", "allied"

网: "net" -- carrying both the meaning of a woven net and a computer network

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nneonneo  4 years ago

I think your comment got a little mixed up - fairly sure Internet is 互联网 (因特网 seems to be a much less common term, a hybrid of phonetic "Inter" and semantic "net")

  • lazide  4 years ago

    Having been around before Unicode (and having to deal with a lot of the early growing pains of getting it working when dealing with non-Latin character sets in production), I have to say.

    Despite all it’s problems, the fact these two messages ‘just worked’ is really awesome. I heart Unicode, despite all that.