Kyoshii

This is a screel grab from “Flavor of Love”. The black girl in this picture lived in Taipei for five years. Her Dad is from HK, and she grew up in Cali. Her Chinese was not slangy at all. It seems like she only learned Chinese at the MTC.

This frame, she is a bit drunk and speaking in Chinese. The other girl is saying the only word she knew in Chinese which is “eggroll”.

I don’t know if she spoke Taiwanese.

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The ASCII standard for text does not define a unique end-of-line (EOL)
character. Instead, ASCII defines two independent and orthogonal
movements of the print head: Carriage Return (CR) and Line Feed (LF).
(IBM’s EBCDIC did not make this mistake; it defined a single New Line
(NL) character.) Early operating system designers had to adopt some
“end-of-line” convention using CR and LF; some used LF, some used
CR, and some used a two-octet sequence: LF CR or CR LF.

During the early ARPAnet research days (~1970-1972), this end-of-line
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