Nobody told me the interface defaulted to Chinese. I still know just enough to figure out how to change it :F
@lizardsquid When I made my account just now, the interface was in Chinese. I had to download a handwriting keyboard on my phone to translate & figure out which line was email and which was password.
Heads-up: the Google handwriting keyboard moves much faster than I'm used to writing Chinese characters.
@lizardsquid Indeed. Sometimes I see Chinese or Japanese when other instances log me out, but this is the first one where I actually had to change the default language.
@lizardsquid It's been three and a half years since I last had to read Chinese. Just now I could feel my eyes crossing as I searched for characters I recognized. Or maybe that's just how bright the purples are.
@brassmerino that sounds exciting!
@lizardsquid So it goes. I could probably still have a spoken conversation in Mandarin. But I hate reading it because the writing system is BS. (That's what I did my capstone on for the Chinese major--why China should switch to a phonetic writing system, and why they're not going to.)
@lizardsquid What, studying Chinese? It sure started out that way, and the best part was either getting really good at Chinese on study abroad, or the time we had to do group skits at the end of second year and I convinced my group to do a Doctor Who story.
Third year was mostly dry nonfiction texts with far too many characters to learn each week, and I quit when I realized fourth year would be more of the same. I still finished the major though.