Computers part 1 update

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I made a couple of glaring omissions from the first computer vocab list:

I mentioned 因特网 - internet. This is the transliteration from English, commonly used in spoken Chinese, but you can also say 互联网 - this is the translation from the meaning of internet.

In the same way, the translation of e-mail is 电子邮件 - (electronic mail), but often, the transliteration 伊妹儿 is heard in conversation. The reason I didn't mention this earlier is because I only found out yesterday! I always heard people saying 伊妹儿 but I thought they were just speaking English badly!

ok, part 2 coming soon

Tags: chinese, mandarin, IT, language