Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

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bio	website	eternalephemeron.blogspot.com
	location	Toronto, Canada
	age	34
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I'm a software developer working on a social-networking site. I work mainly in J2EE, SQL, HTML, JavaScript and CSS. My free time is spent raising a daughter and a son.

	458 reputation	bio	website	eternalephemeron.blogspot.com	visits	member for	1 year, 5 months
211 badges		location	Toronto, Canada		seen	Oct 16 '12 at 19:18

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Dec 13	awarded	Yearling
May 7	awarded	Scholar
May 7	accepted	What is the difference between 作 and 做?
Feb 22	awarded	Critic
Jan 7	comment	Is any simplified character also a traditional character? @Huang: I can understand if there are guidelines, etc. But from a North American perspective, if people want to write confusing, ambiguous text, that's perfectly fine.
Jan 7	comment	Why is stroke order important when writing Chinese characters? If a computer requires the operator to memorize pointless lists of facts (such as stroke orders for thousands of characters) then the computer isn't doing its job properly.
Jan 7	comment	Why is stroke order important when writing Chinese characters? @Alenanno: Don't misunderstand me, I noticed that your answer was referencing a book, so I get it if people believe that stroke order is somehow correlated with "literacy". I just think that's insane, that's all. :)
Jan 6	comment	Is any simplified character also a traditional character? I find it extremely hilarious that mixing simplified and traditional characters is prohibited by law.
Jan 6	comment	Why is stroke order important when writing Chinese characters? @Alenanno: No, I'm talking about stroke order. It's mostly invisible after the character is on paper and thus if other people consider me to be illiterate because I write my characters differently than they do, then I consider their opinion of me to be baseless, false, and worthless, and offensive. If I produce a legible, correct character, who cares what order I wrote the strokes in?
Jan 6	comment	Why is stroke order important when writing Chinese characters? If someone can write a character from memory when they need to, wouldn't that be a sign of LITERACY instead of illiteracy (because the stroke order is "wrong")? Sheesh, what a pointless, snobby rule! The first sign of illiteracy is when someone can't read, not when their handwriting is bad. Honestly that notion offends me so much I feel like I should learn an incorrect stroke order for every character just to stick it to the snobs who feel it's intrinsically important.
Dec 21	awarded	Beta
Dec 20	revised	Tips for pronouncing X vs SH in Mandarin? Edited the question because it's really asking about sh and not s
Dec 20	suggested	suggested edit on Tips for pronouncing X vs SH in Mandarin?
Dec 18	awarded	Nice Question
Dec 16	answered	Translation of 火箭扫雷车
Dec 16	answered	Looking for Pinyin standards
Dec 15	awarded	Talkative
Dec 15	answered	Why is 有 (yǒu) the only verb that requires 没 while other verbs can use 不?
Dec 15	awarded	Editor
Dec 15	revised	How to describe differences between Cantonese and Mandarin? Added link to Language Log discussion about how Cantonese is far more different than Mandarin than people like to admit.