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Anon is a linguist (lemmy.world)
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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

It's not theDog.walks(), it's 狗.走()

Conjugate this you anglocentrist fuck!

[–] farting_gorilla@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

狗。走。了()

There you go, you canine-centric bastard

[–] Camille_Jamal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

HAHAHAHA

I love how evil this is

Don't speak any chinese languages (or is that japanese?) but I do know that most words don't have a direct translation to english

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA I'M STEALING THAT IDEA!

I'm forced to learn french because I'm in canada, so if I get corrected I can chuck a phrase of similar meaning with no direct translation

God I love doing stuff like this

[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

does chinese code take up less space? wait how many bytes does it take to encode a chinese character? is it just UTF-8 or is it something else

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

UTF-16 is fine for the vast majority of Chinese characters. It has been standard since 2008 for C++ (at least for code that wants to be running on windows; Microsoft moved everything to w_string back then).
C# uses UTF-16 natively for strings.
Dunno about other languages