Korean is the easiest to recognise because they always have those little circles and blobs.

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Much harder to tell Japanese from Chinese considering Japanese uses Chinese characters as well. If you ever tried to write out Japanese exclusively in the hiragana alphabet (as pictured above) It would take forever, and be much longer than most things written in english.

No, Korean is circles, Japanese is a mixture of simple and complex characters, while those darn gommies are all about that complexity

Chinese alphabet is basically trying to fit a long ass phrase to a word.
Just like German but worse.

It's because the chinese characters are concepts rather than "words", and in the different chinese dialects, the same character, meaning the same thing, can be pronounced totally different.

same here but for japan i just say if its doesnt have circles or complexly detailed then its likely Japanese

The curvey symbols there are from the hiragana alphabet. The katakana alphabet has a lot more straight lines, for example: フライドポテト

Also the more complex moon runes in Japanese are exactly the same as in Chinese

Tldr:
Two main alphabet for Japanese (one for regular Japanese words and other for borrowed words, like English), with complementary Chinese words as the cherry on top.

It must suck to be a Chinese elementary school teacher that has to read those messy moonrunes all day.

I'm pretty sure they say the same about us. But it's just that our "alphabets" do different things.

Not including the fact that most people there aren't paid enough.
Which makes working as an elementary teacher even worse.

Do you know how fucking long the Chinese alphabet is that's literally going to take years to get through

Moonrune race here.


Technically, Chinese does have an alphabet, or rather, a set of phonemes, called BoPoMoFo, after the first four phonemes, since Chinese digis are grouped by fours, instead of threes here in the West.

Now, look at this. Or not, your choice really.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
if you perused through the page, you'll have seen that there's a table in it's first half. That's Chinese's "alphabet". Then, there are four intonations.

Now, Chinese can be represented in the Latin alphabet, in fact, where I come from, it's much easier being taught this way.

the first one is a neutral tone, like someone says "uh..." in a monotone voice, as someone probably is likely to when faced with this for the first time. the moonrunes represent this as having no symbol, but in the Latin alphabet, it's a ¯ over the vowel enunciated as such.
the second one is more of a raised tone, similar to when someone says "huh?" quickly. in both moonrunes and the Latinized version, it's represented by a ˊ.
the third one is basically a more deep pronunciation of the last one, represented by a ˇ. this one's a check mark or a downward arrow, for those who can't see. To continue my analogy, say "huh?" in a slower tone.
the fourth one is the easiest. represented by a ˋ, just say everything like you're shouting. Or emphasize the last part of it.
there's also a fifth one, but that one's pretty overlooked.

then there are dialects. basically, each dialect has a different way of saying things, but a similar spelling, since China hates simplicity.

trust me, that's the simple answer.

then lastly, there's the shortening of words, because why the fuck not?
for example, take "馬". It's shortened form is "马". So anything using that character can be shortened to it as well, like 媽/妈 .

TL;DR: Chinese 37 phonemes and four intonation marks. That covers each possible pronunciation, but Chinese has multiple dialects, two notable ones being Mandarin and Fookienese. Each dialect has a different pronunciation, but the same spelling. Each spelling has a traditional spelling, and a shortened one.

bopomofo is a thing of the past man

Get with the glorious pinyin race, 哈哈!

frankly, I prefer my proto-runes.

pinyin is nice, but there's something special about confusing people with an added layer of more fucking symbols.

Well, they have a character for each word. (They even have a character that means 'Jesus', as far as I know.)
Not only that, they can't use Latin alphabet as easily as Japanese and Korean languages can, because each word can only have one syllable, resulting in homophones (mother and horse are read as 'ma', but there are also tones and shit, which is beyond an English person's understanding)
Even without obsolete characters, it still takes shitload of time to learn each one. Thank God for simplified Chinese.

Well japanese kind of is in the same boat when it komes to Kanjis (The chinese characters) sience they have imported their characters from china...

Well, most Japanese works I've read also includes kana subtitles over their kanji(s) (the real reason is to help children read, so obviously most hentai don't include that.)
But then again my above point still stands, Japanese language can be easily written and understood in Latin alphabet while Chinese, ehh not so much.

Japanese can be easily understood when written in Latin alphabet? Wot? It's ungodly frustrating trying to read anything in Japanese without kanji. It's actually harder to read sentences that consist of only hiragana than ones with kanji.

I usually read with looking for context, well sure kanji does help but for me I don't really need to.
But then again it might also be that most Asian languages have shitloads of homophones (venom and ability are spelled and said exactly the same in Indonesian, and Mandarin, well yeah), so some Asians develop superpowers like ability to magically know what other asians mean just by context and speech (and mind reading while we're at it).
Which also explains lack of great English grammar for primarily-asian speaking languages.

In speech it's not difficult, but hiragana-only writing is really annoying to read, since you have spend time to figure out where words end and start it, making it agonisingly slow and it takes me like 3 times as long per sentence. In contrast, I read novels containing kanji at about 65-70% of my English reading speed.

Oh. I find that no spaces in hiragana can sometimes be a problem, too. Thanks for reminding me.

Fuck's sake, let's try this again:
*to figure out where words end and start it

Those kana subtitles are called ふりがな (Furigana), and while they help you decipher the reading there are incredible amounts of ambiguity in the japanese language that are only clarified trough the use of kanjis, so while the problem might not be as harsh as in chinese it still exists in the same way in japanese.

Seems unlucky for me then. I live in a house of five, and we always seem to go over the data limit of 300gb and I end up paying an extra 50-60 dollars. So I asked in October if they had a solution and they offered to put me on their 30$ unlimited plan. This still has not been reflected onto my account even though every time I talk to a representative they tell me it has been recorded.

This is parodying"Healthy at every size"

Yeeesss, we know, as stated previously, but are there people stupid enough to think #effyoursafetystandards is not satire - but another real thing?

**chaosraptor used "*roll 1, Magic 8-Ball*"**
**chaosraptor rolls Outlook not so good**
will thebluedream ever be swole

D'aww. You recognized it. Good for you.

Hey, as long as he gets with zombie chick I'm good. Too many people here are into snake and spider chick which are bad waifus

As someone from New Jersey, I can very much confirm New Jersey is shit.

Funny, seeing as its the first and only city to be recognized as a world heritage city.

I meant American city

what did we do

american public school students?

It's the internet, I can't control what you say.

have you even read any superman comics?

Just Injustice ones

well...in that case i would recommend reading superman comics that dont completely butcher his whole character?

If you are referring to Injustice, it's the only version of superman I like. Everything I've seen (which I know isn't reading) is trash. I just hate his whole background and powers. It's not his attitude or anything.

well if injustice is the best version of superman you have seen then i would say you have been reading some really low quality comics...and while i am used to people hating supermans powers because they think he is too op(another misinformation that would be fixed by reading more comics...) the hating on his background is new to me? why?

I like the injustice version because it makes him a villain, which he makes the perfect villain. His homeworld giving him powers makes no sense and I get he's still technically killable it's just retarded.

in a world where one dude gained the power to go super fast by being struck by lightning near a few bottle of liquids and another became able to fight h2h with kryptonians just because he trained hard you find supermans powers to make no sense? ...well to each his own. i wont try force you to like something you dont want to like.

Wait but doesn't this show a loop

well...kinda. you could see bronze age as going back towards the golden age formula while trying to carry over what was great about silver age of comic books. the stories these days however, have the major difference in it that they take the marvel approach to things and are trying to focus more on the characters as personalities as rather than superheroes.

But if they do it right they may have an age way better than the golden age. Comics may become something mainstream again not in a bad way tho.

bronze age is pretty much my favourite era...well early bronze. 90s to 2010 ish... 80s had some great ones but most of my favourites comes from the time line given. they pretty much created all the superheroes that i love in the form we see them nowadays.

I haven't been in to comics that much but I do like them. So care to give a few names.

anything from the big trio. grant morrison alan moore and neil gaiman(the three of these are actually so great that their comic books are attributed to being a major factor in why marvel had to file bankrupt in the 21 century)


but specific names... all star superman is pretty much the greatest superman comics. book of magic,sandman series,killing joke,hush,arkham serious house on serious earth,whatever happened to the man of tomorrow,doomsday,superman year one,invincible, specter(early 80s to 90s has the most baller art style you will ever see) john constantine (the original series) lucifer and swamp thing. those are pretty much must reads dc comics. as for marvel....well im not too well versed in marvel hits... you would have to turn to my nemesis, comicexplain for that. he is the one who knows more about marvel from the two of us.

np

> but rather until we have a better vetting system than "Are you with ISIS?"

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY BELIEVE OUR VETTING SYSTEM IS LIKE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fzXpDW3cuE&ab_channel=SecularTalk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-t3GetV_Q&ab_channel=CapCanary

Let CURRENT YEAR men explain for you how retarded you sound.

This is one of the cases where you'd have to be wholly ignorant of the entire process to actually think the vetting process isn't good enough.

Over the hundreds of thousands of refugees we've let in since the 80s, less than a few dozen terrorists have come in through the vetting process. And guess what? We've caught all of them before they could do their attacks. Literally no refugees have committed terrorists attacks.

And this point can be made another way: terrorists can come in WAY EASIER through travel visas and student visas. It would make no sense for them to waste time and resources to come in through the refugee process.

There's no legal framework in place to ban immigration based on religion. By nation, sure. But by religion? Can't be done. Even if it could be, there's nothing stopping people from just saying they aren't muslim. How could you prove it?

Nah man, they'd obviously just shoot brownish people on sight. Can't be too careful.

White, Asian, Black, and Hispanic Muslims exist.

That, my dear Bilbo, is the joke.

Ahhh... k

Honestly this site gets pretty "Poe's Law"-ish whenever Trump gets brought up.

I thought I was being obvious but apparently there is indeed no end to human stupidity.

It was honestly much easier than I expected to be