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ChatGPT's response is full of BS. 青い魚 is あおいさかな NOT あおいう お The middle character has nothing to do with the verb to be; it's an adjective suffix. 青い魚 is liter
by hsn915 4y ago
ChatGPT's response is full of BS.
青い魚 is あおいさかな NOT あおいう お
The middle character has nothing to do with the verb to be; it's an adjective suffix.
青い魚 is literally "blue fish". It's not a full sentence.
- aeonik 4y agoI appreciate your call out, I would've had no idea. Is the main idea still correct? I'm curious what technique Japanese speakers use to avoid collisions like the one referenced in the article.
- hsn915 4y agoWhat collisions? You mean a kanji composed of two kanjis vs the two kanjis written separately but together? There's no technique per se. It's just the character size. Example: 好 vs 女子
- aeonik 4y agoExactly, thanks for the information!
- fenomas 4y agoNo, TFA was a little vague but there's no collision. The kanji for mackerel 鯖 is a standalone word/idea, whose graphical representation happens to consist of the characters for "blue" and "fish" next to each other. But virtually all kanji are constructed this way, so native readers just see the overall word without considering the parts, similarly to how you'd read the word "notable" without mistaking it for "not able".
- robjan 4y agoChinese characters/Kanji are typically monospaced and characters are written within a box.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoI think I can see the confusion about い here. Not so much う お instead of さかな though... い adjectives are said to have a built in copula, at least in material I've read, and since な in な adjectives is from the classical Japanese copula にある, one could surmise that い is also derived from a copula. As far as I can tell that is entirely wrong, but it is the kind of thing I wondered immediately after hearing that な and だ were derived from forms of ある. Disclaimer: very little actual understanding of Japanese.
- b4je7d7wb 4y agoIt's so weird. I know Japanese and I know chatGPT mostly confidently wrong. But still I wanted to believe it and give it the benefit of the doubt. I was wondering if fish had another pronounciation in addition to sakana.
- Anon1096 4y agoうお is indeed a valid reading of 魚, just not in 青い魚. But 飛び魚 (flying fish) for example is とびうお. btw, the bit chatgpt spit out about い in 青い meaning to be is just totally wrong