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Chinese Find Number URLs Easier Than Letters

NPR
Published October 18, 2014 at 7:43 AM EDT

Chinese characters don't readily work with the English-centric internet. The New Republic's Chris Beam tells NPR's Scott Simon that the Chinese use numbers that when pronounced, sound like words. This story air originally on Weekend Edition Saturday on May 10, 2014.

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