habits are interesting... I remember taking a while to get used to traditional chinese when I first arrived in Taipei, since I've been learning simplified chinese all my life in Singapore... even my office computer was in English, since it was the interface I was used to...
but now, after almost 1.5 years of immersing in traditional chinese, I now find myself being so used to it that I can no longer distinctively differentiate between traditional and simplified... it's now just chinese words that I can understand, and it takes a while and a bit of conscious effort for me to tell the characters apart...
also, I have been using the company laptop (of which the OS and Microsoft Office are in traditional chinese) for about 6 months now... and during this period, I have rarely been using my own laptop (which is in English)... but about a week back when I moved to Shanghai, I started using my own laptop again (cos I left the other one in the office) and suddenly I found myself "surprised" at everything being in English... it was an interesting feeling...
and now, I'm actually just bringing the office laptop back home to use... (partly also because my own laptop is getting old and slower)
but it's just interesting how these habits become habits without us really realizing it...
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