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Originally Posted by Stensie4JC
I know what you mean about it seeming strange that they use ABC's to make Chinese characters. However, the alphabet is not really that strange to them because most people educated in China in the last 20ish years (it's been part of the official curriculum since 1950, but i don't know how faithfully this was implemented before 1980) learn the alphabet as part of Chinese phonetics. Also, education in English language begins in junior high officially, although I have seen children who are beginning to learn some basic English words as early as preschool. So it's not as strange for them to use the alphabet as it is for the average American using foreign characters.
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My keyboard looks like this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...raditional.png
They aren't exactly thinking in ABCs when they type in Chinese. Few people do, unless they are using a Romanized input method.