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    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

I've been trying to get this thing to work for the longest time and nothing. First error I got was some utf encoding error, which was fixed simply by adding the utf-8 encoding declaration to main.py ...
Zephirot93 Learning resources 443 136,467 2015-07-02, 9:00 pm
    Thread: Japanese kanji compounds dictionary?
Post: Japanese kanji compounds dictionary?

Does anybody know of any Japanese dictionary that explains how certain Kanji combinations add up to represent a particular meaning? I don't mean a Kanji dictionary, but rather something that takes com...
Zephirot93 The Japanese language 4 1,435 2014-07-30, 12:35 am
    Thread: Kanji system for English (and other languages)
Post: Kanji system for English (and other languages)

aldebrn Wrote:It's crazy that modern web forums like this lack the "multi-threading" capabilities of the old news readers, letting op's initial idea get completely sidetracked by side-tangent. Many go...
Zephirot93 General discussion 34 4,741 2014-07-30, 12:27 am
    Thread: Kanji system for English (and other languages)
Post: Kanji system for English (and other languages)

anotherjohn Wrote:A splendid idea! Perhaps you could start with some of the synonyms for 'drunk': befuddled belligerent bent besotted blacked-out blasted blind blitzed blocked blotto boiled bombed bu...
Zephirot93 General discussion 34 4,741 2014-07-25, 5:15 pm
    Thread: Kanji system for English (and other languages)
Post: Kanji system for English (and other languages)

Linval Wrote:Zephirot93 Wrote:I must admit though, when I first started imagining the potential of all this I went all the way to thinking it could someday be taken as a standard "way" of writing, as ...
Zephirot93 General discussion 34 4,741 2014-07-25, 2:35 pm
    Thread: Kanji system for English (and other languages)
Post: Kanji system for English (and other languages)

Stansfield123 Wrote:I think English (and other major) languages will soon be able to be fully (or at least practically fully) represented in a writing system with Japanese roots. But it won't be the K...
Zephirot93 General discussion 34 4,741 2014-07-25, 2:22 pm
    Thread: Kanji system for English (and other languages)
Post: Kanji system for English (and other languages)

Linval Wrote:Interesting concept, sounds like fun - certainly much more stimulating than any kind of shorthand I can think of, at least in my opinion. I'd like to see this idea developed further. Tho...
Zephirot93 General discussion 34 4,741 2014-07-25, 2:06 pm
    Thread: Kanji system for English (and other languages)
Post: Kanji system for English (and other languages)

That's exactly one of the many advantages this system would have! I've actually tried doing it in class with Chinese and it works wonders. Not only that, but after rereading my half-chinese-half-engli...
Zephirot93 General discussion 34 4,741 2014-07-25, 1:34 pm
    Thread: Kanji system for English (and other languages)
Post: Kanji system for English (and other languages)

Disclaimer: I'm not really sure if this has ever been suggested before in this forum. If it is the case, please direct me to the thread. Now, prepare for a long but (hopefully) interesting post :D ___...
Zephirot93 General discussion 34 4,741 2014-07-25, 12:48 pm