mccWait hold on I just realized. Is
八人入
A reasonable Chinese sentence
…Also waaaa why did the character rendering change so much when I copied from Pleco to Tusky. Who gave eight a hat
In Pleco they look like this. I don't know if this is a different but regular hanzi font or if the CJK unification is messing me up somehow
EDIT: I currently think Tusky is showing me Japanese character variants https://social.mildlyfunctional.gay/@artemist/116146010272716935
WAIT WTF this is an actual Chinese IME and it seems to be showing me Japanese characters. Ok I think Lenovo is fucking with me, one minute
Okay I now believe the problem is neither Tusky nor Lenovo but rather that Android is not a serious product and never has been. It seems Android may outright refuse to show scripts unless you've whitelisted the language. Problem: I think this menu is asking me which version of Chinese I want but the menu is in Chinese. I want to look at Chinese text so I can learn Chinese. I don't know it yet. I feel like I'm playing an adventure game.
* I may explore a PR later anyway.
Actually I'm pretty sure 简 already means simplified, so I selected simplified at the top level, and this second menu is asking… I don't know. Locale? TTS dialect?!
Update: I solved the problem, not by adding Chinese as an alternate language for my Android, but by deleting Japanese as an alternate language. Not sure when I added Japanese in the first place or what I was trying to accomplish but I question Google's decision that informing it I may look at text in Japanese makes it conclude I DEFINITELY won't be looking at Chinese!
Gaelan Steele@mcc hmm, to me (learned Mandarin as a first language in parallel with English but am now extremely rusty) it reads as archaic but understandable; I think the use of 入 as a standalone verb also contributes here? like for something like “eight people entered [the room]” my natural translation would be 八个人进去了 (or 进来了, depending on my perspective)
…god I need to find an excuse to properly unrust my Mandarin
@Gaelan I thought this was a good solution https://mastodon.social/@noone2333/116146702971358411
@Gaelan Gaelan how do you feel about wuxia and/or girls who are really really *really* good friends
@mcc uh, I’m not particularly familiar with Wuxia but am myself a girl who is really^3 good friends with a number of girls
@Gaelan i was gonna recommend a Chinese net animation called soulmate adventure / 风灵玉秀 which is a very cute, everyone-claims-this-is-GL YA-ish adventure series about two young female kung fu masters traveling together. bilibili used to have a youtube video with the entire first season but they took it down