2023-01-24 10:58 UTC
@till I’m an ex telex operator and in that job you had to use as few characters as you could to keep the length of the call as short as possible, it’s a habit that’s stayed with me even now, I tend to have to make myself write things out properly. Japanese sounds a nightmare, most people in the west struggle with one alphabet let alone two!
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@till@nerdica.net 2023-01-24 11:56
@weaniejeanie53@mas.to It's still better than Chinese in this regard. They have over 100.000 signs. (You don't have to learn them all, though.) And Japanese (Hiragana) signs have some internal rules, that makes it easier. Like adding a circle or to small lines in the upper right makes the consonant part of the syllable sound harder or softer. E.g. if you add two small lines to ki it becomes gi. And often, similar sounding signs also look kind of similar.