Report
From Newsletter #5:
On August 26 we held a seminar on Jyutping at the City University of Hong Kong. Jyutping is a Cantonese Romanization scheme proposed by our alumnus Caesar Lun (BA 1981, MA 1985) ‘s team in Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. It is a scheme that is functionally similar to pinyin used in Mainland and the difference is that Jyutping is based on Cantonese, the dominant Chinese dialect used locally in Hong Kong. Such schemes are used for denoting the pronunciation of Chinese characters and are also implemented as Chinese input methods on computers nowadays. In this seminar, Caesar introduced the scheme and talked about using Jyutping input method on a PC. After the seminar, we went for a dim sum lunch inside the City University.
We have received very positive feedback. One of the attendee said he never knew how to type Chinese because of the complexity. Now he can use his mother tongue as a basis to do Chinese input. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Caesar for delivering the seminar for us!
Invitation
We have received inquiries from our members about the seminar of Jyutping. Our alumnus Caesar Lun (BA 1981, MA 1985) is kind enough to agree having another seminar for us this month.
Jyutping is a Cantonese Romanization scheme (Jyutping) proposed by Caesar’s team in Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. It is a scheme that is functionally similar to pinyin used in Mainland and the difference is that Jyutping is based on Cantonese, the Chinese dialect widely used locally in Hong Kong. Such schemes are used for denoting the pronunciation of Chinese characters and are also implemented as Chinese input methods on computers nowadays. In this seminar, he will introduce the scheme to you and will also talk about using Jyutping input method on a PC. The seminar will be conducted in Cantonese.
Date: August 24, 2013 (Saturday)
Time: 10:30am
Place: Room B7603 of the Blue Zone of the City University of Hong Kong
Fee: Free of charge
After the seminar, there will be a dim sum lunch gathering inside the City University for all our members or alumni. It does not matter whether you are interested or available for the seminar, you are welcome to join us for lunch to meet our fellow alumni.
Date: August 24, 2013 (Saturday)
Time: 12:00pm
Place: Shing Hin Chinese Restaurant (8/F, Recreation Building, City University of Hong Kong,http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=6202)
Food: Mainly dim sum
Damage: Share the food cost
RSVP. We can be reached at 6481-6005 on that day.
May the ‘Horns be with y’all!
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