Friday, October 3, 2008

Chinese Gender Calendar: Know your baby before birth

What is the Chinese Gender Calendar ?

  • It is said that thousands of years ago the Chinese developed a world's first gender calendar to predict a baby's sex. Because in that culture gender is important. Men have much more previlleges than women so all wnated to have at least one boy. Even today in China one-child policy is still hard to be enforced, especially to families with no boys.
  • It was buried in a Royal tomb Ming Shi San Ling about 700 years ago in the suburb of Beijing, and was discovered by a Chinese Scientist. He made this calendar based on his findings in the tomb.
  • Chinese Gender Calendar is based on the Chinese Lunar Calendar, not Gregorian calendar. They are different, one is based on the moon, the other on the Sun. You need to convert the mother's age to right format in Chinese lunar calendar.
  • We'll be doing a survey here with Chinese Gender Calendar . Check the accuracy of the calendar for your children, tell us if the results were acceptable by taking part in our poll.
I will cover more about Chinese Baby Gender Calendar next time. I hope this information is useful to you.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Misspelling-how far they can go? An example of "Chinese Gender Calendar"

Just came across some web sites and I am astonished to find that the misspelling is so wide spread. Take an example for "Chinese Gender Calendar":

Hcinese Gender Calendar [11], Cihnese Gender Calendar [3], Chniese Gender Calendar [12], Chiense Gender Calendar [14], Chinsee Gender Calendar [9], Chinees Gender Calendar [12], Chines Egender Calendar [14], Chinese Egnder Calendar [4], Chinese Gneder Calendar [5], Chinese Gedner Calendar [4], Chinese Genedr Calendar [11], Chinese Gendre Calendar [1], Chinese Gende Rcalendar [9], Chinese Gender Aclendar [5], Chinese Gender Claendar [1], Chinese Gender Caelndar [10], Chinese Gender Calnedar [10], Chinese Gender Calednar [2], Chinese Gender Calenadr [5], Chinese Gender Calendra [8], Chinese Gender Calenda [4], Hinese Gender Calendar [1], Cinese Gender Calendar [11], Chnese Gender Calendar [7], Chiese Gender Calendar [1], Chinse Gender Calendar [11], Chinee Gender Calendar [13], Chines Gender Calendar [1], Chinese Ender Calendar [11], Chinese Gnder Calendar [2], Chinese Geder Calendar [5], Chinese Gener Calendar [7], Chinese Gendr Calendar [5], Chinese Gende Calendar [3], Chinese Gender Alendar [6], Chinese Gender Clendar [13], Chinese Gender Caendar [1], Chinese Gender Calndar [6], Chinese Gender Caledar [2], Chinese Gender Calenar [6], Chinese Gender Calendr [9], Chinese Gender Calenda [13], Cchinese Gender Calendar [6], Chhinese Gender Calendar [4], Chiinese Gender Calendar [3], Chinnese Gender Calendar [6], Chineese Gender Calendar [13], Chinesse Gender Calendar [13], Chinesee Gender Calendar [8], Chinese Ggender Calendar [3], Chinese Geender Calendar [6], Chinese Gennder Calendar [11], Chinese Gendder Calendar [3], Chinese Gendeer Calendar [3], Chinese Genderr Calendar [4], Chinese Gender Ccalendar [4], Chinese Gender Caalendar [14], Chinese Gender Callendar [2], Chinese Gender Caleendar [4], Chinese Gender Calenndar [11], Chinese Gender Calenddar [4], Chinese Gender Calendaar [9], Chinese Gender Calendarr [3], Xhinese Gender Calendar [8], Vhinese Gender Calendar [11], Cginese Gender Calendar [9], Cjinese Gender Calendar [6], Chunese Gender Calendar [12], Chonese Gender Calendar [14], Chibese Gender Calendar [8], Chimese Gender Calendar [3], Chinwse Gender Calendar [9], Chinrse Gender Calendar [6], Chineae Gender Calendar [8], Chinede Gender Calendar [12], Chinesw Gender Calendar [9], Chinesr Gender Calendar [14], Chinese Fender Calendar [11], Chinese Hender Calendar [7], Chinese Gwnder Calendar [8], Chinese Grnder Calendar [14], Chinese Gebder Calendar [13], Chinese Gemder Calendar [4], Chinese Genser Calendar [2], Chinese Genfer Calendar [2], Chinese Gendwr Calendar [7], Chinese Gendrr Calendar [6], Chinese Gendee Calendar [2], Chinese Gendet Calendar [9], Chinese Gender Xalendar [9], Chinese Gender Valendar [12], Chinese Gender Cslendar [12], Chinese Gender Cakendar [3], Chinese Gender Calwndar [1], Chinese Gender Calrndar [5], Chinese Gender Calebdar [14], Chinese Gender Calemdar [9], Chinese Gender Calensar [11], Chinese Gender Calenfar [11], Chinese Gender Calendsr [9], Chinese Gender Calendae [4], Chinese Gender Calendat [14], and much more. (Source: http://words.misspelt.org/C/Chinese-Gender-Calendar)

Almost anything is possible with the spelling in the internet using search engines, you see. Is this just a creativity, or sign of a lack of education?

Really sad to see that there are so many web pages having so many spelling issues...

Once I read an articles saying that spelling is not important. They claimed that the article below demonstrates that the brain can easily decode and understand the message of the text without reading each letter in a word. Why? Because our brain is wired to search for and comprehend the meaning of what is read rather than being concerned with each letter placement of a word. So for speed readers, it's true, fixating on every letter while reading only serves to dramatically slow down ones reading. The incorrect article is:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Or rather...

According to a researcher (sic) at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.
(Taken from http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/, which is not necessarily the source of the information; this is widespread on the Internet)



I can not agree with that. Spellling is still important. It shows if you are well educated and caring for others. I can not stand bad spelling, or all capitals. They just seem rude to me.

The motto is, forgive someone's articles if not spelled correctly as unfortunately you don't need to know the exact letter placement of each element of a word to understand it - this is the foundation for speed reading. But be strict to yourself: spell your words correctly when writing an article, like for "Chinese Gender Calendar", I 'd like you to the benefit of your readers, to write each word, letter by letter, correctly.