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by ickoonite 4y ago
This is not uncommon for the children of Japanese people living in the West, particularly when they have married non-Japanese. They pick up the spoken language via osmosis but the written language…not so much. It is, as I said, very hard an
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by ickoonite 4y ago
> I frankly gave up with English grammar and just did whatever feels right. This is the correct approach.
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by ickoonite 4y ago
> Do japanese school children not learn kanji by rote memorization themselves? They do indeed, but in a context of everyday immersion, so it’s not rote learning to the exclusion of all else.
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by ickoonite 4y ago
But what is a language without its written form? I mean, fine, if we are going to contrive a comparison where we are only comparing spoken forms, well…English is still going to come out on top, because - exactly as you explained in your edi
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by ickoonite 4y ago
Yes, you are quite right. I got my table relationships mixed up in the heat of the moment.
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by ickoonite 4y ago
Some of it comes from importing words from different parts of China or at different times in history. From my (very) limited experience, Japanese pronunciations of kanji are much closer to Cantonese or Hokkien than Mandarin.
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by ickoonite 4y ago
Combination of kanji to create new words is a feature of Chinese, which Japanese inherits. It’s the same way we (used to) coin words in European languages by reaching for Latin and Greek.
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by ickoonite 4y ago
I think it’s quite hard to argue that Japanese orthography is harder to fuck up than English. Mastery involves distinguishing between 人 and 入, 鐘 and 鍾, 撤 and 徹, amongst countless other very similar characters. It is not easy at all - signif
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by ickoonite 4y ago
French is hard to encode but easy to decode. ai, aix, é, aient are all (more or less?) the same, so reading is fine, but working out which to write can be tough. French has bigger problems though. That keyboard for a start.
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by ickoonite 4y ago
> Reading is similar until Kanji comes along I mean, sure, if you exclude the most complicated writing system currently in use in any natural language, Japanese is simple. I hear Chinese is really easy too if you just do everything in pi
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by ickoonite 4y ago
Quite. I suspect there are other natural languages far more suited to programming analogies than Japanese. Latin, anyone?
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by ickoonite 4y ago
Sure, but it’s a messy model that tells you that 生 is pronounced nama or sometimes ki, 生きる ikiru, 生じる shōjiru, 学生 gakusei, 生む umu…
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by ickoonite 4y ago
My mother tongue is English. I studied Japanese to degree level so I feel at least moderately qualified to comment on it. English is grammatically fairly simple, having dispensed with much of the (redundant) complexity found in its European
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by ickoonite 4y ago
I have to fundamentally disagree with the premise: Japanese is probably one of the least logical languages on the planet. To wit, it combines the written complexity of Chinese with the spelling inconsistency of English. The one-to-many rela
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by ickoonite 12y ago
Arrays actually do implement IList<T>; they did think of that. I guess the problem is that it's not discoverable. I'd second your call for an interface on numbers (including some way to "genericise" TryParse).