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

You can also see that in the Korean dialects

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

https://youtu.be/ZBELgO3MVY4

Rev up those crosses

Meh it's stil going to go bac k adn forth, rep to dem