Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand?

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cloudless@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Yes. For example in Chinese underground metro is 地下鐵路 roughly “ground under metal road”.

The shorthand is 地鐵, roughly “ground metal”. And everyone understands that as the metro.

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