esperanto suxx and zamenhof is a jew lol

Travel safe. Be sure to share your Enlightenment with the forum when you return. ^_^

Enjoy your trip ファブリス, I always wonder if you still do reviews on the site...what if you come back to huge bunch of expired cards?!?! Bad Karma....

His icon? it's 龜 the traditional character for 亀 before the simplification reform. It has a silly and inefficient 'official stroke order' so I suggest using your own stroke order for it.

On topic of that kanji (you guys might know this already) the 本字 for 秋was 龝 (that's actually a slightly simplified variation of the original, which has a few more strokes on the left-hand radical. I am not sure how to type the original version on my laptop)

Last edited by Aijin (2010 January 19, 7:06 pm)

@Aijin, I quite like the official stroke order for it, its quite easy to remember I think. If i'm not mistaken there's even a character with 龜 in an enclosure making it even more difficult to write and make legible at small size.

See this video for the stroke order/etymology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv4s2X84H1k

EDIT: Seems that video doesn't have the stroke order, just the etymology, can't remember where I found the stroke order for it but its hardwired in my brain and fingers from writing it so often to show off to chinese friends

EDITEDIT: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c … aorder.gif

Last edited by meolox (2010 January 19, 7:51 pm)

ファブリス wrote:

I say start a flame war or two, that'll keep him busy    Maybe about Esperanto or something!

-"I'll be back"

I would, but I'm too busy learning 100.000 kanji a day and teaching them to Chuck Norris.

Have fun Fabrice, and when you're back tell people on the forum how life in the real world feels like.

I like the stroke order of it too all except for the last part how you write the entire enclosure for the X and then the X. It's a bit odd but quite neat and easy to remember. Thanks guys.

Aesthetically I prefer the one Katsuo posted.  I like when the strokes go horizontally across the middle.  This is one of the most badass looking kanji I have ever seen.

LazyNomad wrote:

Aijin wrote:

Stroke orders are very personal, so whatever works best for you, that's great I have some unorthodox stroke orders sometimes anyway. I can't stand the official order for 医 for example

If you mess an official stroke order, doesn`t it mean that you will not be able to produce and recognize calligraphy, especially the "grass" script?

Nah, that isn't completely true. It's more about recognizing a system. If you make up how to write all the kanji you won't be able to read grass script, but if you know the principles behind the official stroke orders, you will recognize most. There are of course exceptions.

Then there's people who use 癌!

Can't say I've seen that kanji used too often, but it does seem to pop up.

Tricky icon switch mezbup, tricky indeed.

Last edited by Grinkers (2010 January 20, 6:50 am)

Grinkers wrote:

Then there's people who use 癌!

Can't say I've seen that kanji used too often, but it does seem to pop up.

Tricky icon switch mezbup, tricky indeed.

I gotta say I'm thoroughly intrigued and impressed by 癌 which is why it took the top spot for a while but 鬮 blows it out of the water.

Jarvik7 wrote:

Also, killing whales is fun. We should kill them all, with ICBMs.

You Goblin!