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Weird Chinese bass forum thingie.

#28
You know, as one who's never owned a Roscoe Beck sig (test drove one) I've always thought that they were some of the best looking basses I've ever seen. Why butcher one?

I just don't get it. Okay, buy an SX and mod away! But a nice, beautiful RB sig??????

BTW, yours is quite the looker! No surprise he borrowed your image.

--Bo
 
#29
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That's all I have to say.
 
#32
BurningSkies said:
Maybe its a euphemism like "Johnny Law"?

Or maybe it's Sterling Ball's Chinese Alias name?
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Another mystery solved:

The internet said:
Zhuyin Wen (Recycling of a Transliteration Alphabet Used in Elementary Education)

In addition to the three patterns of writing discussed above, a new linguistic practice is emerging on the Taiwan-based Internet that is being criticized, even as it gains in popularity. Unlike the above three stylistic forms, this newer practice has a widely recognized name: Zhuyin Wen. Specifically, Wen refers to "written language." Zhuyin is the alphabetic writing system used exclusively in Taiwan and discussed above.

Zhuyin Wen refers to an online writing style in which some or all Chinese characters are replaced by Zhuyin.

In Zhuyin Wen, the complete phonetic representation of a character is reduced to a consonant (or less commonly, a vowel). The recovery of the referential meaning in Zhuyin Wen is not always easy: A reader has to figure out the missing vowels. In addition, tonal information, an important aspect of Chinese languages, is not provided in Zhuyin Wen. Thus, a reader has to infer the intended meaning based on context and partial linguistic clues. Unlike Stylized English, Stylized Taiwanese-accented Mandarin, and Stylized Taiwanese, all of which call the reader's attention to the incompatibility between sound and meaning, the playfulness of (as well as resentment toward) Zhuyin Wen derives from its underspecified quality and the juxtaposition of Chinese characters, the norm of writing, and an alphabet associated with imperfectly-acquired literacy. The use of Zhuyin Wen also conveys a sense of cuteness or naivete because it is reminiscent of compositions written by elementary school students, which mix Chinese characters and Zhuyin symbols.

One may wonder whether the emergence of Zhuyin Wen is related to the prevalence of the Zhuyin method of word-processing in Taiwan. Since it is easier to type Zhuyin symbols than to use the shape-based Cangjie or Wuxiami methods, their use might encourage the practices of Zhuyin Wen. While the Zhuyin input method has been used since the early 1990's, the prevalence of Zhuyin Wen online is a relatively recent development. There are two possible reasons for its increasing popularity. First, as one interviewee suggests, as the Internet becomes more accessible to the public, the average age of initial contact with the Internet has been lowered. Many young students, who have not yet mastered the Chinese writing system or have not acquired an alternative input method by shape such as Cangjie or Wuxiami, are already frequent Internet users. They may well display a greater tendency than older people to use the Zhuyin input system and to write in Zhuyin Wen. In turn, their language use may influence language practices on the Taiwan-based Internet to a certain degree. This possibility is not addressed in this paper, which focuses exclusively on university students, a homogeneous age group, at one point in time. A second possibility is that the use of Zhuyin Wen, along with other creative writing practices, engenders group solidarity among Taiwanese Internet users, and that this in turn reinforces its use. This possibility is explored in the next section of this paper.
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Sounds like the Chinese equivalent of leet or texting language. Not popular in these parts, either.
 
#37
Munjibunga said:
Another mystery solved:
Sounds like the Chinese equivalent of leet or texting language. Not popular in these parts, either.
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I had just subjected my Chinese co-worked to a forced translation to try and figure out your mystery and then you went and solved it yourself. So thoughtless :)

On the other hand, she got great amusement from the Google mistranslations, so perhaps we are even.
 

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