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Learning many writing systems is my hobby. But despite having learned the Georgian alphabet and being able to read მიღება as "migheba" I still am none the wise
by ithkuil 2y ago
Learning many writing systems is my hobby.
But despite having learned the Georgian alphabet and being able to read მიღება as "migheba" I still am none the wiser since I have no idea what that means.
Today my kid bought a pokemon toy and the box was only in Japanese. I proudly deciphered
ニャスパー as "nyas'paa" but my son only recognized the name when I googled it and found the English spelling "nyasper" (we're not native English speakers so perhaps the translation would have been more obvious to some of you).
Long story short: knowing writing systems is super fun but often you need to know more about the actual language. That's especially true with languages like Arabic that don't spell out all the vowels
- jackdorseyleft 2y agoThere's a joke in here with the pokemon's name with how it doesn't match with its actual english name