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Thread: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal ammount of vocab.? Post: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal... I would understand "brand new car" as, well, a brand new car, not range of cars. Tefhel Wrote:There's a lot of vocab, but I'm pretty sure that English has the largest amount of vocab of any language.... |
cntrational | The Japanese language | 104 | 20,367 | 2011-05-26, 3:46 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Done. *kazoo toot* |
cntrational | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,648 | 2011-05-25, 1:00 pm | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Got to here. *kazoo toot* |
cntrational | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,195 | 2011-05-22, 4:50 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese jokes Post: Japanese jokes http://everything2.com/title/Japanese+pu...t+are+puns |
cntrational | General discussion | 23 | 5,564 | 2011-04-28, 6:57 am | ||
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Thread: 'Reviewing the Kanji' Twitter users Post: 'Reviewing the Kanji' Twitter users http://www.twitter.com/cntrational |
cntrational | Off topic | 97 | 52,851 | 2011-04-28, 4:06 am | ||
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Thread: China bans time travel for television Post: China bans time travel for television They should ban this ban. It's too bizarre. |
cntrational | Off topic | 12 | 3,050 | 2011-04-28, 4:03 am | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! Thanks for the encouragement. |
cntrational | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,463 | 2011-04-28, 3:59 am | ||
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Thread: The origin of 人 Post: The origin of 人 That made me laugh. My font has the 人 that's more like a Y, though! |
cntrational | The Japanese language | 10 | 2,198 | 2011-04-28, 3:44 am | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! Made it. *kazoo toot* |
cntrational | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,463 | 2011-04-27, 4:44 pm | ||
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Thread: MRI scanning the brains of meditating monks Post: MRI scanning the brains of meditating monks bodhisamaya Wrote:There was a similar study reported maybe five years ago in Discovery magazine (I think) that showed Tibetan Buddhist monks were off the charts when measuring activity in the part of ... |
cntrational | Off topic | 9 | 6,127 | 2011-04-24, 10:25 am | ||
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Thread: Depression Post: Depression AFAIK, antidepressants are somewhat effective for severe depression, but worthless for milder forms. Depends on the type of antidepressant and the person in question. |
cntrational | Off topic | 76 | 10,210 | 2011-04-24, 10:09 am | ||
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Thread: Revising and studying for exams. Post: Revising and studying for exams. I was thinking about using the SRS for study and I came to a realization: You become skilled at something by practicing it. But what is practice? Repetition. And what is an SRS...? |
cntrational | Off topic | 32 | 7,673 | 2011-04-22, 5:47 am | ||
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Thread: The Japanese Have a Word for It! Post: The Japanese Have a Word for It! kapalama, you have a Japanese culture fetish; people tend to become friends with people who have similar interests, so of course everybody you know has a Japanese culture fetish. |
cntrational | The Japanese language | 135 | 38,230 | 2011-04-21, 8:27 am | ||
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Thread: The Japanese Have a Word for It! Post: The Japanese Have a Word for It! True, but it's still a funny word. |
cntrational | The Japanese language | 135 | 38,230 | 2011-04-12, 10:19 am | ||
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Thread: The Japanese Have a Word for It! Post: The Japanese Have a Word for It! yudantaiteki Wrote:You shouldn't get the idea that Japanese is unique in having these strange words, though. Any language has seemingly bizarre words. Very true. I doubt many languages have words lik... |
cntrational | The Japanese language | 135 | 38,230 | 2011-04-12, 10:09 am | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... I have no interest in arguing with you, nest0r, since you're too far gone, as evidenced by our previous argument. I simply point out that you go against mainstream thought, so that everybody else is n... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-04, 1:47 am | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... Erm, I really doubt that, nest0r. I should know about this, given that I study real linguistics. Everything I've read places speech and sign as the prime form of language in thought. After distilling ... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-04, 1:06 am | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... It's perfectly justified, darkauras, because I have some papers about the magic of semantic-phonetic here! What, you say that they go against all mainstream linguistics, psychology, and throught? Nons... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-04, 12:52 am | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... thecite Wrote:For the most part you can understand things with context, but often when you hear an ambiguous homophone the easiest thing to do is to think of the kanji, haven't you ever had a native s... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-02, 5:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... ... I'm done. I don't think I can argue like this. |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-02, 1:53 am | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... nest0r, you're beginning to frustrate me. A morpheme is a unit of sound/sign that form a semantic unit. Words like "dance", "smell", "gift", "potato" are morphemes. Affixes like "-er", "un-" and "-s"... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-02, 1:15 am | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... nest0r Wrote:Because they are symbols that represent morphemes in representing signs, they are logographic by the definition of logogram that says a logogram is a symbol that represents morphemes. By ... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-01, 7:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... I'm completely confused by your argument. Signs/sounds represent morphemes in both signed and spoken languages! An alphabet represents these sounds and signs, or more precisely, "phonemes". Whether ... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-01, 6:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... ... nest0r, do you know what "morpheme" means? |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-01, 6:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... nest0r, in sign languages, a sign is not a self contained unit of meaning. In a spoken language, sounds are combined to create words. In a signed language, signs are combined to create words, most of ... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-01, 6:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... Fair enough. Context is very important, you can't disambiguate most of the homophones otherwise. |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-01, 4:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... IceCream Wrote:...no, that's exactly what i was saying...? We were talking about people who are deaf, right? The whole point was that SignWriting could be easier for deaf people to learn. (did you thi... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-01, 3:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... KMDES Wrote:Except one thing that happens a lot in speech is misunderstanding. Heck, it's a running gag in anime that someone says something they think they mean something because a homophone was used... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-01, 3:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... Whoa whoa whoa, are people really arguing that Japanese cannot be written with kanji? That's ludicrous. I'm not a proponent of abandoning kanji, just the opposite, I like the current system. But writi... |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-01, 3:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn... Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea... Uh. Okay. I don't see how SignWriting would map better with the "multi-modal features of the brain". |
cntrational | Off topic | 186 | 32,833 | 2011-04-01, 5:34 am | ||
