even aside from the fact that these people are speaking japanese, its especially funny to me that people think the mere mention of covid would be somehow unpleasant for a chinese person
like motherfucker, your country is the one that failed to handle it! china took care of it while your dumbass fucking citizens ran around denying it existed as the hospitals overflowed! and even by the dumbest chuddest conspiracy theories where the chinese developed the virus in a lab and sent it over to the US on purpose, all you're doing is saying "hey, remember that time you owned me and i wasnt prepared for it and your plan worked flawlessly?" thats not an insult, dumbfuck!
I 'member when comments for a video were in Arabic, the English language responses would be things like 'No, you cannot blow that up' and other similar (((jokes)))
"Any script that isnt cyrillic or latin is chinese" ~Republicans
"I only take my backwards R's on a Toys R Us sign thank you very much"
I'm frankly not convinced it isn't some 14-year-old doing epic maymays
yes. the first comment doesn't even use the alphabet that shares characters with chinese, and the overlap is more like latin and russian alphabets than english and spanish alphabets from what I remember. it has been a few years. japan has three alphabets; two phonetic, one picturey. (technical linguistics term) only that one shares any chinese characters.
oh fuck only a cursory look
and yeah, technically, but its descended from in form, not strictly borrowed from. different. though im not up enough on linguistics to argue farther.
japan has three alphabets; two phonetic, one picturey
Technically, all three are writing systems, not alphabets. Kanji (Chinese characters) are logographs - each stands for a word or morpheme (a somewhat autonomous part of a word). Hiragana and Katakana are syllabries - each character stands for a syllable (or vowel), not a letter.
In alphabetic writing systems, each character is a letter, which typically represents a sound, but may also vary in pronunciation or be silent, depending on the word (and language).
Hiragana and Katakana are evolutions based off simplified versions of Chinese characters (simplifications whose origin is also in China) - but aren't used by any other language besides Japanese.
Japanese Kanji diverge from Chinese Hanzi and have many completely unique Japanese pronunciations and uses, but there are many equivalents between the two. E.g., 愛 is pronounced ai and means "love" in both Chinese and Japanese.
oh the kanji I count as being totally related. the hirigana and katakana tho, idk ive poked at japanese a bunch and chinese a little and I can see how they're in the right family, but the difference is obvious at a glance, was even before I spoke a word of either language. not that I'm fluent.
right, yes, not technically an alphabet, but you know what I mean, and I fail at semantics. ive been on the stupid internet for the last while, and just fudged to simplicity rather than saying 'logograph'. or remembering the word >.>
Them Japanese use some Chinese characters? I knew all Asians were the same all along!
Me, an ancient Boomer, posting MAGA under a youtube comment in Sanskrit because I think its Chinese
