Typing cyu comes out しゅ (syu)

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Typing cyu comes out しゅ (syu)

Emrayla opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

Emrayla commented 8 years ago

Think it's the same for cyo -> syo.

İhsan Işık · Answer 1 · Thu Sep 08 2016 20:54:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hello,

Can you elaborate a bit on the issue, please?

And well, neither cyu not syu are valid sounds, I believe. Do you mean something like tsyu, perhaps? Have you tried that? You would also read しゅ as shyu.

Emrayla · Answer 2 · Thu Sep 08 2016 22:58:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Cyu is normally the shortcut for typing chi followed by small yu (ちゅ). Cyo would be ちょ (chyo).

İhsan Işık · Answer 3 · Sat Sep 10 2016 08:39:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I see. Wouldn't ちゅ be read as chu and ちょbe read as cho though? Why not simply go ahead and type the way they are read?

And well, ultimately, as a response to this specific issue, there are multiple reasons for which I won't be working on this:

I can't see how skipping a single letter can be called a shortcut. It really doesn't look like it would save enough time to be called one. (And if you were to just write the way they are actually read, it'd be going down to three letters to begin with.)
While typing readings, you kinda read them in your brain. I'd imagine typing cyo (or chyo) instead of cho could possibly make you get used to a wrong reading. (Yet another reason to just type exactly as they are read!)
Again, as I said here and elsewhere, I'm not actively working on this project. Even if the above points were to be justified, I doubt I'd be acting for something as trivial as this anytime soon.

Emrayla · Answer 4 · Sat Sep 10 2016 15:56:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I hit this issue ALL the time because for those of us who've typed Japanese alot, it gets programmed into your brain just like touch typing. So I'm constantly typing cyo, cya, cyu, and then when the result is wrong having to back up and type chyo, chya, chyu very intentionally. I say it with the ch in my brain automatically.

Do you know if anyone is actively working on a WaniKani Android app?

İhsan Işık · Answer 5 · Sat Sep 10 2016 20:30:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I see. But again, I'm no longer active on this so...

And nope, this is the only Android app that is still "alive". I do hope to get back to it and do a proper rewrite though. So you might eventually get this in.

And really, it really doesn't sound all that hard or deal-breaking to just switch to "cho" or "sho" or "chu" or "shu". In fact, it sounds like less effort than having to figure (although possibly automatically) in your brain that the c comes from the chi and the yo is what makes it cho... I mean, read it? cho. Type it? cyo. Why even? Why not just cho and cho?