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人 is person
yea, ik about the lack of sound
which means diff areas of china can pronounce it drastically different ways, and they may not understand one another
but the writing is uniform
Yup
Japanese use the same characters, same meanings, completely different sounds
Chinese is a tonal language. The pronunciation of a word changes the meaning
And the character
马妈 are both ma. First is horse, second is mom
The second one is made of woman + horse
What horse has to do with motherhood, no idea
吗 is mouth + horse...and it basically means question mark
Most Western inventions don't even have a word. Like helicopter, computer, etc
Helicopter = 直升机 = direct rise machine
Doesn’t Japanese use modern western words instead of making up their own too?
I also read an article that studied languages and found that several geographical locations, after the migration, have derivatives of Noah and his family for names. Like rivers and mountains.
yes, the japanese seemingly do like loan words lol
There’s a video I watched part of where this American(white) kid and Japanese guy talk to people on the street using English words. The street people can’t understand the English words from the American kid. It’s pretty funny.
Yes kinda
Japanese did copy some words from us
South uses a loanword for helicopter
North uses a long phrase "flying machine that can take off and land vertically" or something
Occasionally the north has Russian loanwords too
I think it's political reasons for Chinese and NK, they didn't want to copy a word from America so they had to work around it
Like even in Chinese, they don't have a word for car...it's literally the same word they use to refer to a CHARIOT
车
A lot of geographic names in China are silly, like "mountain with trees on top"
Christmas in Japanese is
Kurisumasu
which is obviously just a loan word
Yeah
There's a lot of words like that
After the Meiji restoration the Japanese were fascinated with everything foreign
It wasn't until the 30s when they became really hostile to the outside world
Japan is a weird one. China is as well.
Yep
Like an upside down backwards parallel world
Rev up those crosses