Sentences with phrase «chinese writing system»

Here's a small but revealing example of how communications technologies can work differently once they leave the land of their birth: individual Twitter posts can express more information in Chinese than in English, because the Chinese writing system uses ideograms rather than an alphabet...

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I'd never considered this idea until I caught a segment on today's Morning Edition looking at the role of Twitter in publicizing internal dissent in China, in which the head of a similar Chinese microblogging service mentioned the idea that ideograms can transmit more information in a small space than other writing systems can.

They left out so - called logographic writing systems like Chinese and Sumerian cuneiform, which they say have too many characters and are too visually complex to easily analyze.

Chinese children can master pinyin (a Roman alphabet adapted to Chinese) in one - tenth the time required to learn the traditional writing system.

«Taken together, our data underscore the need to more comprehensively understand the mechanisms of CRISPR / Cas9 - mediated genome editing in human cells, and support the notion that clinical applications of the CRISPR system may be premature at this stage,» the Chinese scientists wrote.

Tai chi (also written as T'ai Chi, Taiji, Tai Chi Chuan, etc.) is an ancient Chinese exercise system (originating 2,000 years ago as a martial arts strategy) that uses gentle, slow, deliberat...

In this write up about the Chinese educational system by the International Center for Educational Benchmarking, two things popped out at me: 1) large class sizes (50 students / class); 2) specialized teachers, who might only teach one particular class, such as «Senior Secondary 2 Physics», but they teach it multiple times a day.

And now, the Chinese version of Ford's SYNC 3 in - car infotainment system has mastered written Chinese.

A long - standing member of the Communist Party and Vice President of the state - sponsored China Writers» Association, Mo Yan is said to write «within the system» (i.e., in a manner approved of by the Communist Party officials and which avoids criticism of Chinese authorities).

The phonogram attribute may be used to specify the pronunciation of a word in Chinese, Japanese, or other ideographic writing systems.

My interest in languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean started from an early age, and the writing systems used were always so fascinating.

Another source of pressure for judges is the lifetime responsibility system, which two Chinese judges writing in an academic law journal called the «sword of Damocles hanging over judges» (法官办案责任追究是时刻悬挂在法官们头上的 «达摩克利斯之剑»), analyzing the drawbacks with the standards and their implications for judges.

In 2007 Jonathan Evans, the director - general of MI5, had written privately to 300 chief executives of banks and other businesses warning them that their IT systems were under attack from «Chinese state organisations».

Twitter says that the 280 character limit isn't available to Japanese, Korean, and Chinese users because of the density of the writing systems of these languages, which allow users to say more with fewer characters.