#LinYutang

KipJayChou[维护模式]jay@gts.feddit.social
2025-11-29

明快打字机的前世今生 :maodie_ciallo:

我一定要造一部打字机,使我可以真正的打字

——林语堂

今天突然看到何同学在YouTube上2025年10月14日发布的视频,这个视频其实在2023年就看过了,在今天又遇见,仿佛在看一个全新的视频一样。

三级滚筒系统

  • 大油桶上装着6个中滚筒,每个中滚筒装着6个小滚筒,就如图3所示(图三、图四)
  • 每个小滚筒有八面
  • 每面上又有20个字模(图5),而明快是29个字模(图6明确数出来了确实是29)
  • 所以明快可以打出668*29=8352个字模

魔眼装置

要打“呼”字,先打“口”再打“竖钩”,然后就会到小滚筒的某一节上,前面说了每个小滚筒有八面,所以一般有八个有“口”有“竖钩”的汉字,(所以我觉得6629*8=8352更符合直觉)这使用了林语堂自己发明的”上下型检字法“(图8)

我觉得更奇妙的是还有个预览滚筒(图7)
大滚筒上处于打印位置的八个字;
就是预览滚筒上被放大的八个字;
然后按键盘下的”87651234“8个按键中的一个,就可以选择正确的字。

声旁+形旁

8352个字模里,有7000左右是可以直接打出来的,剩下的是偏旁(70声旁+1300个形旁)
比如情,通过打声旁”竖心旁“和形旁”青“
所以这样就可以很轻松的通过组合打出字!甚至可以打出生僻字,自创汉字!
猜, 睛, 精, 倩, 清, 请, 晴, 情,等等等等
所以经过简单排列组合就是70X1300=91000个字

  • 林语堂在1947年发明的明快打字机的故事。(视频前期主题)
  • 这台打字机能够打9万个字,解决了汉字数量多的问题。它通过三级滚筒结构和上下行检字法实现。(视频中期主题)
  • 尽管这台打字机设计巧妙,但由于成本过高,未能量产,林语堂也因此负债。(视频后期主题)

注意:何同学在YouTube的视频中删减添加了很多的片段

关于明快打字机下落消息(2025.1)

明快打字机原型被找到

Facebook原地址
reddit-唯一一台明快中文打字机原型机已被找到

按照reddit的说法:

这台打字机是纳尔逊·费利克斯在他妻子祖父家的地下室里发现的,他首先将其发布到了一个 Facebook 群组中。
明快打字机是第一台使用键盘的中文打字机。它由林语堂发明,于1947年5月22日首次生产。它是当时速度最快的中文打字机,熟练的打字员平均每分钟可以打出约50个字,即使是未经训练的用户也能达到每分钟20个字的速度。
林德森委托卡尔·E·克鲁姆公司制造了一台定制原型机。在研发过程中,他背负了巨额债务,最终未能将打字机商业化。1948 年,默根塔勒·林诺打字机公司从林德森手中买下了这款打字机的专利权。该公司也收购了那台原型机,据说后来将其丢弃了。

视频信息(2025.11.29)

Youtube We Built a Chinese Typewriter.. 1,105,163次观看
Bilibili【何同学】我们做了一台中文打字机... 1675.1万

维基百科:

中文打字機#明快

其他图片来源:

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/05/mingkwai-chinese-typewriter-prototype-stanford-libraries
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2613795A/en
https://tool.yzitc.com/ytb/
https://tool.yzitc.com/bili/

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Eero Suoranta / 艾若思InfamousSnake@hcommons.social
2025-03-07

So yesterday, I was giving a lecture on Lin Yutang and his MingKwai typewriter and a student informed me that, apparently, it had been found.

Let me elaborate: The MingKwai was a revolutionary machine that could be used to type a theoretical maximum of 90 000 Chinese characters, almost twice as much as in Imperial China's largest dictionary. The legacy of its "Magic Eye" viewfinder system and Lin's statistical analysis can still be seen in how Chinese is written on computers today. According to Thomas S. Mullaney, it marked the birth of "input". Its only prototype was believed to have been lost, possibly thrown away or disassembled for parts.

And it was found. In a basement in New York. This January.

*high-pitched noises*

Original Facebook post that is either reporting the find or a very elaborate scam: facebook.com/groups/1277686226

Blog post by Richard Polt with pictures: writingball.blogspot.com/2025/

#MingKwai #LinYutang #typewriters #ChineseLanguage #languages #input #InputMethods

2024-12-16

Useless quote for 17 Dec:

"The scamp will be the last and most formidable enemy of dictatorships."

~ Lin Yutang (林語堂, 林语堂), in "The Importance of Living" (1937)

(a scamp = a rascal; one who is playfully mischievous)

#UselessQuote #LinYutang #林語堂 #林语堂

2024-04-21

The Precious Few
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” ― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

The older I get, the less I care about the accumulation of things like accolades and titles and possessions. Sure, it's nice to have that crystal bowl gifted to my bride and I when we got marr
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#Lifestyle #LinYutang

2023-10-15

#Books #Novels #JohnSteinbeck #JefferyEugenides #JohnBunyan #MayaAngelou #LinYutang #China

Some interesting "finds" . . .

6 books that I bought for just $3 at the Great Valley Bookfest in Manteca this morning.

2022-03-01

"Those who stand on tiptoes
do not stand firmly.
Those who rush ahead
don’t get very far.
Those who try to out shine others
dim their own light.
Those who call themselves righteous
can’t know how wrong they are.
Those who boast of their accomplishments
diminishes the things they have done."
tao-in-you.com/lao-tzu-tao-te-
#LaoTzu #LaoTse #LaoTzu24 #老子 #老子24 #JHMcDonald #JLegge #LinYutang #translations
This chapter has a phrase that is the same as one found in #老子31 an #antiwar chapter like #老子30

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