🏒⃮ = puck, 🦁⃖  = mane, 🚘︎⃠ = no cars

Any more?

I'm from New Jersey. It's not my fault. When I'm making a recording I definitely say "right" and "ride" with a definite t and d respectively. But when I'm just talking I do something perhaps similar to a glottal stop, or unreleased stop, or vowel lengthening, or something. I don't know what to call it. But people who talk like me have no trouble distinguishing "ride" from "right", and they definitely sound different. Is there a term or IPA symbol for the difference? Help me out.

𔐄>👽, 𔑭>🐕, 𔐃>💃, 𔐍>😵, 𔑲>🐴, 𔐖>😛,𔐝>✍,𔐨>🤛,𔑁>🫲,𔑛>👢,𔑥>🛼

Dwight Bolinger and later Adele Goldberg contributed to the 'Principle of No Synonymy'. During the early 20th century, Romanization of various sorts was discussed as a candidate for replacing Traditional Characters. If that had happened, do you agree that only etymology lovers would be able to distinguish the following pairs as separate words today?: 須&需, 蒐&搜, 形&型, 純&淳, 瞰&看, 制&治, 振&震, 尋&詢, 帥&率¹, 彙&匯², 察&查. Are these 'homophones+near-synonyms' a possible argument against 'no synonymy'?

¹You can google "帥領" and get unironic and even published examples of this typo/variant.

²TIL that these are merged into 汇 in Simplified.

I'm a grade school teacher and I used to only notice this in students. But I'm noticing it more and more in otherwise intelligent adults.

Q: Why did you two fight? A1: They pushed me. A2: No, they pushed me. (Okay, you pushed each other. You didn't answer why. Understandable. You're in third grade. We'll get to the bottom of it.)

Q: Why are you confused? A: Because I don't get it. ('Don't get it' = confused. How did you complete Uni to get this job?)

Q: Why didn't you brake when the light turned red and my brake lights shined? A: Because I didn't slow down soon enough. (This one's probably intentionally evasive. Still...)

If you wanna trust the link, here it is https://www.moralmachine.net/

I keep getting the same frustrating first question: "What should the self-driving car do?" The image fails to make it appear that the car has only two options. I think it should use the closer wall of barriers as a brake. If no passengers, hit it hard. If there are passengers, swerve into it at an increasing curve to reduce injury.

Comment with your thoughts, please. Am I simply overthinking? Committing a moral failure by refusing to cooperate with "fate"? Missing even more options?

I gave up memorization for Chinese once I learned about well-crafted, extremely gradual, graded reader series, both on paper and online. Any such thing exist for Toki Pona?

I gave up memorization for Chinese once I learned about well-crafted extremely gradual graded reader series, both on paper and online. Any such thing exist for Toki Pona?

This has happened to me a bunch of times. Most recently I was annoyed by the existence of 裁. The 部件 don't help much with either the pronunciation or the contextual usage. The etymological explanation is sorta interesting, but still not much help. My irritated mind drew out the character 𲀦 (hope your device can display it) thinking that it was in every way superior.

Why, Chinese? Why?

But, but, but... Now whenever I'm reading and I come across "裁", I remember 𲀦, and know how to pronounce it!

Similar experiences, anyone?

These Traditional Chinese bookmarklets are free, hosted on GitHub, so no advertisements or anything like that. I made them after learning a very small amount of html and JavaScript, but I sort of dreamed them up years ago when I first started getting frustrated, and wondered why no such simple helps exist.

1&2. Online reference tools are more versatile and easier to learn to use than paper dictionaries. But still, I don't like to (1) highlight, (2) copy, (3) open a dictionary, (4) paste, (5) read, but remain lost (6), open google translate, (6) paste again... So the first bookmarklet makes this process a lot faster.

5. This is like other font-changing bookmarklets that provide pinyin, but this corrects hundreds of 多音字, and I'm always adding more.

6. This one is the one that confused my friends initially, and the one I think needs the most explanation. Pinyin/Bopomofo are great, but I've always wanted a way to only put them with Characters I don't expect myself to know yet. That way I can keep track of the Characters I actually recognize and always see pinyin/zhuyin when I need it.

Anyway, these tools were the difference between giving up in frustration and now being able to read paperback novels with enjoyment.

I wanna share the joy. If you have suggestions for making them easier to set up, I'd be grateful.

https://ifforl2.github.io/Chinese-Bookmarklets-for-Reading/

P.S. The auto-mod warned me not to advertise. I get nothing but joy if people use these. No data, no ad money, nothing like that. I just really wanted something like this to exist.

After much frustration, I've got the following IDEs barely working, but looking awful: ⿰ ⿱ ⿳ ⿵ ⿿ ⿾.

Here's my embarrassing code so far.

```

var text = ⿰⿿𔐖⿱𔒷𓈞⿵𓉫𓂏⿰𓈑𓆗𔘷⿰𓈗⿳⿾𓁸𓂑𓂑⿰𓈗⿳𓎏𔘷𔓑⿱𔔌𓀕⿾𓁔⚘⿾𓁔⿱⿾𔐫𓁹

function parse(str) {

const chars = Array.from(str);

let i = 0;

functionh = chars[i++];

if (!ch) read() {

let c return "";

if (ch === "⿳") {

let a = read(), b = read(), c = read();

return `<span style="display:inline-grid;grid-template-rows:1fr 1fr 1fr;place-items:center;width:1em;height:1em;vertical-align:1em;font-size:50%;line-height:0.7;"><span>${a}</span><span>${b}</span><span>${c}</span></span>`;

}

if (ch === "⿱") {

let a = read(), b = read();

return `<span style="display:inline-grid;grid-template-rows:1fr 1fr;place-items:center;width:1em;height:1em;vertical-align:1em;font-size:59%;line-height:1;"><span>${a}</span><span>${b}</span></span>`;

}

if (ch === "⿵") {

let a = read(), b = read();

return `<span style="display:inline-grid;grid-template-rows:1fr 1fr;place-items:center;width:1.3em;height:1em;vertical-align:0.2em;line-height:0;"><span>${a}</span><span style="font-size:45%;">${b}</span></span>`;

}

if (ch === "⿰") {

let a = read(), b = read();

return `<span style="display:inline-grid;transform:scaleX(0.50);grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr;place-items:center;width:1em;height:1em;vertical-align:0.3em;font-size:90%;line-height:1;"><span>${a}</span><span>${b}</span></span>`;

}

if (ch === "⿿") {

let a = read();

return `<span style="display:inline-block;transform:rotate(90deg);">${a}</span>`;

}

if (ch === "⿾") {

let a = read();

return `<span style="display:inline-block;transform:scaleX(-1);">${a}</span>`;

}

return ch;

}

let out = "";

while (i < chars.length) out += read();

return out;

}

text = parse(text);

```

I know it sucks, but wouldn't we all love to see something working?