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Mar. 13th, 2004 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikI'm sorry if my last post caused any confusion. Really, I was just so happy to get the interface more or less working I just sent it and went to bed -- wasn't thinking that to most of my friends it was just going to be a little parade of squares.
So, I just installed Chinese language support. I should have done this a long time ago, but I kept not finding my OS disk when I thought of doing it, and I still tend to worry that my Chinese sucks and I'm not going to be able to understand people. (I'm not actually as bad as I think I am, but I get really embarrassed sometimes, and have a major inferiority complex around fantizi.) But, while explaining to someone else how to install the support (thank you![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dghettoazngurl! -- oh, and Shifu says "hi") I was reminded to do it myself.
If any of you on windows who don't already have such support would like to be able to see the characters I'm writing rather than a bunch of squares, there's a decent reference here. There's a link from the bottom to references on how to write as well.
If I start writing anything particularly long, I'll use cut tags ;-) (The only reason I didn't write more last night was that I still haven't figured out character selection.)
I've also just finally joined the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
zhongwen community...
As many of you know, I'd thought I'd lost most of my Chinese after seven years of not doing anything with it while at Microsoft. But leaving apparently freed up a lot of RAM (excuse me, I have to do my little "I'm not at Microsoft anymore dance" *dances*) and it's been coming back. Remarkably well, considering I haven't been doing anything more than a lot of eavesdropping and trying to figure out how to say things in my head. (And then mostly not saying them, though I'm getting a little braver.) And I'm understanding more written material as well... I've heard it's called state based memory, or some such, where if I knew it at some point, and I put myself in the right situation, it just kind of comes back on its own. Eerie.
I've really been wanting to get my reading back up to something vaguely respectable. (I never got beyond marginal newspaper reading on my own -- more serious literature always saw me with a dictionary in hand.) What I'd really like to do is go back and take the revolutionary lit series at the UW -- it's only offered every third year or so, so I didn't get to take it when I was there before. After casting around for ways of doing this with little success, it finally occurred to me that while my textbooks are uninspiring, and I actually have to go out and find comic books in Chinese to read (my current favorite strategy) the whole internet is open before me and I know that I have a great deal of enthusiasm for reading and writing things online.
So, I just installed Chinese language support. I should have done this a long time ago, but I kept not finding my OS disk when I thought of doing it, and I still tend to worry that my Chinese sucks and I'm not going to be able to understand people. (I'm not actually as bad as I think I am, but I get really embarrassed sometimes, and have a major inferiority complex around fantizi.) But, while explaining to someone else how to install the support (thank you
dghettoazngurl! -- oh, and Shifu says "hi") I was reminded to do it myself.If any of you on windows who don't already have such support would like to be able to see the characters I'm writing rather than a bunch of squares, there's a decent reference here. There's a link from the bottom to references on how to write as well.
If I start writing anything particularly long, I'll use cut tags ;-) (The only reason I didn't write more last night was that I still haven't figured out character selection.)
I've also just finally joined the
zhongwen community... As many of you know, I'd thought I'd lost most of my Chinese after seven years of not doing anything with it while at Microsoft. But leaving apparently freed up a lot of RAM (excuse me, I have to do my little "I'm not at Microsoft anymore dance" *dances*) and it's been coming back. Remarkably well, considering I haven't been doing anything more than a lot of eavesdropping and trying to figure out how to say things in my head. (And then mostly not saying them, though I'm getting a little braver.) And I'm understanding more written material as well... I've heard it's called state based memory, or some such, where if I knew it at some point, and I put myself in the right situation, it just kind of comes back on its own. Eerie.
I've really been wanting to get my reading back up to something vaguely respectable. (I never got beyond marginal newspaper reading on my own -- more serious literature always saw me with a dictionary in hand.) What I'd really like to do is go back and take the revolutionary lit series at the UW -- it's only offered every third year or so, so I didn't get to take it when I was there before. After casting around for ways of doing this with little success, it finally occurred to me that while my textbooks are uninspiring, and I actually have to go out and find comic books in Chinese to read (my current favorite strategy) the whole internet is open before me and I know that I have a great deal of enthusiasm for reading and writing things online.
