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(obviously Sarah knows this, just building on her point about word roots and where they come from)

02.11.2025 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And of course, native readings of kanji, which are like if English people started writing ‘bœuf’ but continued to pronounce it ‘cow’ sometimes.

02.11.2025 23:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The big difference being that while English reached the UK *after* the Romans pulled out, and therefore got most of its romance influence from French post-1066, Japanese has often imported the same kanji multiple times, which would be like getting Latin, something more like Italian, and then French.

02.11.2025 23:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The way I always explain it is that Chinese is to east Asia what French once was to western Europe. Simple words to do with peasant stuff are usually native, as is grammar, while more elevated stuff is completely different morphologically because it came from the élite, who used another language.

02.11.2025 23:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

been learning lately, and I know I'm coming to Japanese through Chinese and all, but I genuinely find kanji to be wayyyyy easier than kana. my textbook starting with only hiragana is only creatingn extra work for me.

02.11.2025 23:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

certain oomfs take note

30.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

well, not exactly I'm sure

29.10.2025 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

babyyy

29.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yes!

29.10.2025 11:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

... Are we exactly the same height?

29.10.2025 10:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

gotcha

29.10.2025 10:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yesssss it only really works with four players

29.10.2025 10:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

does anyone wanna link battle with me and Nick sometime

29.10.2025 10:42 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

he got one mega evolution and he liked it, it was enough.

29.10.2025 10:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

look at this bulbasaur, so obedient. not like that horrible horrible charmander.

29.10.2025 10:39 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

beautiful that it kept its meaning

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what on earth

29.10.2025 10:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

good for HER

29.10.2025 10:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(baby)

27.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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took my stupid dog son out for tea

27.10.2025 10:23 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

today:

26.10.2025 19:36 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Funniest thing about the gooner article is the author trying desperately to describe the function or basic concept of a discord server like a space alien from the 1950s

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