Chaak (Words.hk, Hambaanglaang, TypeDuck) and I will be giving a teaching workshop for UBC Cantonese. Since both of us are in Hong Kong, our talk will be over Zoom. If you are in-person, you may want to join in-person, as they will have an additional hour of actual practice.
I am very excited about being able to talk about this combination of Cantonese tools, both in development for a long time and released in 2024. Jyutping and Chinese maps to one another in irregular ways, and this is further complicated by user “errors”.
TypeDuck, with its fuzzy matching (it’ll happily accept nui for neoi, leoi for neoi, tsi for ci, and uses tones optionally), takes you from right and wrong Jyutping -> glyph. It’s a flexible and unopinionated input method.
Canto Fonts, with its user-override output (it’ll happily let you render ze1 e6 for 即係 and lei2 for 你 nei5), takes you back from glyph -> right and “wrong” Jyutping. It’s a flexible and unopinionated output method.
With flexible, unopinionated input method and an output method, we (mostly) close the circle, and make Jyutping — finally, after 30 years — approachable.
But be forewarned… Chaak and I both make loads of 爛gag (not punny puns & dad jokes), and if you put both of us together, it’s gonna be wild 🥳 🙈
New Cantonese Input Tools 粵語好打得
Dr. Jon Chui & Dr. Chaak Ming Lau 劉擇明博士
Date: July 12, 2024
Time: 6–8PM PDT
Location: Room 604, UBC Asian Centre Hybrid/Online and In-Person Zoom only for 1st hour.
Program in Cantonese
Registration：https://cantonese.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/new-cantonese-input-tools/
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