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The Story You're Most Proud Of - sethg - 2009-03-15
Or... The Story of Which You're Most Proud, for grammar snobs.
Anyway, what's the best story you've ever come up with? Or at least, what story do you think really makes a difficult kanji into an easy one. I came up with this story for 掲/#673/Put up (a notice) the other day, and I think it's pretty good:
Someone had put up a notice outside the restaurant with a hand giving the reader the finger (like this: http://www.granitegrok.com/pix/the%20finger.jpg). It read, "NO TAKING SIESTAS OUTSIDE OF THIS ESTABLISHMENT!".
Not the most amazing story ever, but it just really stuck. I mean, I can really SEE the sign in my mind and it conjures up the primitives really well.
What about you guys?
The Story You're Most Proud Of - cerulean - 2009-03-16
Watch out when using Kanji Keywords unrelated to the Kanji story at hand.
You use the word Establishment, which is it's own kanji. I guess it's not a big deal, but it's something I always try to avoid.. Sometimes unwanted parts of the story end up sticking. I guess the important part is that you've found a vivid image.
For 掲, I just went along with the Cheech story someone else had been running with.
There is a certain pride in developing your own story and having it stick very well.. Often though, the best stories have already been made. I find that there are a few users who's stories I consistently like, so I always look out for their user names.
The Story You're Most Proud Of - woodwojr - 2009-03-16
sethg Wrote:Or... The Story of Which You're Most Proud, for grammar snobs.This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
Edit: more on the issue.
~J
The Story You're Most Proud Of - sethg - 2009-03-16
I didn't intend for people to critique the stories of others or anything (not that I took offense), but just to share the story that REALLY sticks with them. One that's original that they created. I'm just interested to see what's common in all of the stories.
And yeah, pedantry, but only in jest. Then again, it might be a holdover from the high school days. I had an english teacher who threatened to break your kneecaps if you split an infinitive.
Anyway, where are the stories? Bring 'em on!
The Story You're Most Proud Of - cerulean - 2009-03-16
hah okay, perhaps i'm just embarrassed to share my stories :p
I feel like I have several good ones, but having gone back to look at them, they aren't very special. They are probably only memorable for me because of the time I spent attempting to fit the primitives together.
Right now I have a class, but maybe I'll share some later.
The Story You're Most Proud Of - woodwojr - 2009-03-16
There are a few that I like, but out of those I think the most useful one was 聖, to get the order of the top two components:
Quote:On the chessboard, the Kingside Bishop is the holy advisor with his *mouth* to the *ear* of the *king*.My story for 換 was even more helpful, but I don't like it as much.
Remember, if you're playing white, the mouth is on the right side of the king's ear.
~J
The Story You're Most Proud Of - liosama - 2009-03-16
My story for crumble.
崩
"9/11"
Whoever reported it i want to find out so i can crumble their face in
The Story You're Most Proud Of - yukkuri_kame - 2009-03-16
BRANDISH, for the gratuitous, yet fitting trivia:
"Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, threatened to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew"). So, brandishing the finger was a way to say I still have a my middle finger to "pluck yew". Here is the English "ARMY" BRANDISHING the FINGER."
GATHER, for it's simplicity:
"Families GATHER around a TURKEY at Thanksgiving and a TREE at Christmas."
PAIR, for creative use of onyomi and kunyomi:
"I had a couple of PAIRs of jeans that had holes in the *crotch*. *SOOOO*, (ソウ）I went down to SOHO (双方=そうほう=both sides) to buy a new PAIR of jeans. In SOHO, I ran across a PAIR of jeans shops, on *either side* of the street. Working in each of the shops was a gorgeous young lady. As it turns out they were a PAIR of twins. I took the twins to have dinner at my favorite Chinese/Mexican restaurant called Foo-Taco (双子＝ふたご＝twins) You may doubt me, but this is a two story."
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Wally - 2009-03-16
liosama Wrote:My story for crumble.Truly inspired. I haven't gotten there yet and I won't be able to forget it.
崩
"9/11"
Whoever reported it i want to find out so i can crumble their face in
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Sleepyhead - 2009-03-17
My favourite self made story is the one for emperor 皇:
"White people have kings. The Japanese has an emperor instead."
Made it stick pretty good. :3
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Harrow - 2009-03-17
233 膜
The membrane between the dead and the living is thinnest in a graveyard in moonlight.
Stuck instantly for me (one of my never missed kanji), and it has earned 8 stars, which indicates it has been useful to others, too. That makes me happy
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Jeromin - 2009-03-17
112 名
From Juliet's mouth that evening came her famous question to Romeo: "What's in a name?"
J
The Story You're Most Proud Of - liosama - 2009-03-17
Sleepyhead Wrote:My favourite self made story is the one for emperor 皇:Sorry but where is the part that includes white? :S?
"White people have kings. The Japanese has an emperor instead."
Made it stick pretty good. :3
The Story You're Most Proud Of - sethg - 2009-03-17
liosama Wrote:The emperor kanji has *white* on top and *king* on the bottom.Sleepyhead Wrote:My favourite self made story is the one for emperor 皇:Sorry but where is the part that includes white? :S?
"White people have kings. The Japanese has an emperor instead."
Made it stick pretty good. :3
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Jeromin - 2009-03-17
Harrow Wrote:233 膜#
The membrane between the dead and the living is thinnest in a graveyard in moonlight.
Stuck instantly for me (one of my never missed kanji), and it has earned 8 stars, which indicates it has been useful to others, too. That makes me happy
Make that nine stars! Very good story
I'm amazed by the amount of memorable stories out there! It'd be a pity to waste this resource and not learn all the Kanji soon.
J
The Story You're Most Proud Of - bodhisamaya - 2009-03-18
For what reason would Mushroom (茸2394) be plant/ear??? It makes no freakin' sense what so ever! :mad:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotofilo/2202580888/
Oh, O.K.. Well, then maybe it could be.
The Story You're Most Proud Of - liosama - 2009-03-18
sethg Wrote:No at first i didn't know where "white" was in his story, but i noticed i "white people" after i read it again lolliosama Wrote:The emperor kanji has *white* on top and *king* on the bottom.Sleepyhead Wrote:My favourite self made story is the one for emperor 皇:Sorry but where is the part that includes white? :S?
"White people have kings. The Japanese has an emperor instead."
Made it stick pretty good. :3
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Asriel - 2009-03-18
凍
This a personal one, because there are grocery stores on the East and West sides of my town -- I usually go to the West.
"Frozen" -- I don't like getting my 'FROZEN pizzas' from the EAST Side, because there's always too much ICE on them.
I don't think I'll ever forget this one.
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Machine_Gun_Cat - 2009-03-24
my best one: Step
!!!prepare for extreme surrealism!!! on rainy days you must be careful where you place your feet as you can't step on puddles of water as you will actually fall into the reflection of the world in the puddle which means you will fall into an upside down sky and hit the sun of the reflection. Remember this world is upside down so the sun is BELOW the water of the puddle (primitive placement).
I like this one because of the bizarre imagery, coupled with the fact that I would DEFINITELY have put water below sun had it not been for the primative placement element of this story.
The Story You're Most Proud Of - sethg - 2009-03-24
Machine_Gun_Cat Wrote:my best one:Either I'm not there yet or my brain isn't working... which kanji? I can't immediately think of one in which the sun is beneath the water...
!!!prepare for extreme surrealism!!! on rainy days you must be careful where you place your feet as you can't step on puddles of water as you will actually fall into the reflection of the world in the puddle which means you will fall into an upside down sky and hit the sun of the reflection. Remember this world is upside down so the sun is BELOW the water of the puddle (primitive placement).
I like this one because of the bizarre imagery, coupled with the fact that I would DEFINITELY have put water below sun had it not been for the primative placement element of this story.
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Machine_Gun_Cat - 2009-03-24
^Step, you STEP into the reflection in a puddle and fall into the sun in the reflection.
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Smackle - 2009-03-24
sethg Wrote:Either I'm not there yet or my brain isn't working... which kanji? I can't immediately think of one in which the sun is beneath the water...踏
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Thunk - 2009-03-24
Disclaimer: This is very, very dumb.
My favorite one is "contraption", because it cracks me up. It has the kanji for tree, and commandment.
Moses takes a wrong turn at Mt. Sinai, and ends up at a fiesta (mariachi band, bright colors, salsa dancing and all), with his stone commandments in his hands. But it's the expression on his face that's hilarious. Prophet-of-God Moses -liberator of the Hebrews, parter of the Red Sea, homies with Jehovah - is so wide-eyed, confused and bewilidered, he's about to cry. Then, to add to his distress, he sees a twisted, gnarled bonsai tree, and declares, "What is that contraption!?"
"Uh... It's a tree, Moses."
I know it's dumb, but it makes me laugh every time.
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Jarvik7 - 2009-03-24
I don't remember many of my stories, just the kanji/meaning/readings.
Thunk: that is more of a novel than a story.
The Story You're Most Proud Of - Thunk - 2009-03-24
Novel-writing is my other hobby. Literally.