Tangent Constructed Chinese

TCC 16 Nov 2023 update. ds- is respelt as tz- to keep it in line with “traditional-looking” Romanizations (such as in “Yangtze River”). zh- may be considered a variant spelling with j...

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A table comparing the names of the characters in Apothecary Diaries in different languages.

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In line with the aesthetic goals of basing on existing romanizations, the “ds” initial will be respelt “tz”.

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I decided to try transcribing my name (as pronounced in Middle Chinese/TCC) into Hieroglyphs. Perhaps I should have used the double feather instead, to emphasize on the non-syllabic nature of t...

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I am not the creator of ParseRime, not have I ever hosted downloads for it. I had made more recent posts on ParseRime with updated links, such as this one here (this is one of the links in the bl...

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shogikappa : > (The following article outlines a fictional variety of chess created > for the constructed world of Rangya)  >  > Canggi (将 棋, Yenmun: 장끼) is the...

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Extract of a conversation I was having with someone on Cantonese loanword types: Friend: Are english loans in cantonese commonly assimilated to cantonese phonology? To what extent? Me: I th...

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I am starting to doubt my designation of LMC (and also EMC) 曉匣 as /x ɣ/ and am starting to lean more towards /h ɦ/, because of the group 精清從心邪 being put together, if 曉匣 was ac...

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苑安雄’s 析韻輸入法 (previously “切韻輸入法”), or in English, “PRime” (standing for ParseRime IME) is a pan-Chinese topolectal diaphonemic/Late Middle Chinese-based input ...

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While working on my Masters’ thesis, I had the opportunity to read Silverman’s 1992 paper on Cantonese loanwords, “Multiple scansions in loanword phonology: evidence from Cantonese“. The ...

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Triungku Haanngyu Szshieng Middle Chinese art design by myself (Tangent Ghwaang): The 4 tonal classes of Middle Chinese

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shogikappa : > I noticed how the Japanese …てある and …ている forms can > be compared to the constructions of have/be + verb in English, even > if their usage...

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shogikappa : > So I was reading a book about MC rimes and I came across Branner’s > transcription for Middle Chinese: > 失占切 > Baxter (1992): syit + tsyem = sye...

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shogikappa : > (extract of a conversation regarding orthography and linguistics I > was having with others) >  > One of the people who study language I really admire is...

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shogikappa : > So I was talking to someone about English words carrying a meaning > of success vs the Chinese lack of it  >  > First case we discussed was “找”�...

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Willow Pattern Craft

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“Vernacularized TCC” is my provisional name for a loose TCC spelling convention I use. It is primarily used for character names or concept names/loanwords in fiction. One could consider it a ...

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shogikappa : > I just thought about the title for haganai and realized Japanese, > Mandarin, and English have different ways to express the idea.  >  > English: I have...

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While the use of IPA for teaching English to Hong Kongers sounds like a good idea, I think one important aspect seems to be overlooked which makes its effectiveness dubious. Specifically, it has...

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> I was wondering if you maintain a character dictionary for looking > up the TCC romanization for a given character. I found this site > while searching for something�...

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