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I don’t understand why he made it a shirt, no one does that. Should have been like a fake tatoo. People do that
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Read the thread! https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1316762933175738369
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freeedr posted:Knowing Japanese (and apparently the specific word for pedophile) is not common among random English-speaking white dudes I would think. How the hell would he know what the set of characters is called or even what language it is, much less what that combo of characters means in common speech? It’s silly to say he could have just looked it up last point aside: 1) the insanely bad kind of weeb has basically picked up on "lolicon" as a euphemism for "pedophile" and/or "child porn" and if you have ever encountered them you have almost certainly heard it in that context. i used to be a global mod on 7chan in my teens (an experience I deeply regret), so yeah, i've heard it too much for one lifetime; but even without that kind of experience it's hard to avoid those kinds of weebs. gently caress, i had a coworker at a retirement home a few years back who proudly told me he was a lolicon, and it was my cue to stay very very far from him. 2) while mistaking kanji for chinese is actually genuinely fair because they share a lot of the same characters, katakana is really distinct-looking and if you've ever encountered something japanese before you've seen bits and pieces, and it's almost impossible to mistake for any other language. i'm pretty sure if you pulled 10 random people, none of them would be able to tell you what it says but they would all know it's japanese and one or two might know it's "the easier kind of japanese." 3) even if you don't know what it's called, looking up "japanese alphabet" on wikipedia pulls up an explanation of the three different writing systems with examples. looking up katakana from that point pulls up a page with a straight-up chart mapping each symbol to a romanized syllable.
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If it's fairly simple, it's japanese, if it's complicated, it's chinese, if it's kind of complicated and has lots of circles, it's korean.
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Korean is by far the easiest of those three because hangul is an alphabet similar to English where a character = one or two possible sounds depending on where it is in the word. Newspapers and other official stuff still uses Chinese characters though, so there is that. https://twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1316493212605911040
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Oct 15, 2020 22:23
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Bridges were built by invisible people and / or ghosts?
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Inceltown posted:Bridges were built by invisible people and / or ghosts? no they were made by computer animators, smartass 
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Oct 15, 2020 22:39
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It’s obviously a magician just out of frame, you philistines.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:57
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Google Translate also has a feature where you can draw characters. It's a little crude, but it does get the job done, so assuming the tweet is real then there is no reason the guy couldn't have done his own research into what his shirt said whether or not he knew what katakana was.
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Oct 15, 2020 23:34
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Idk why you posted straight up unedited footage of the game but good on you.
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Oct 15, 2020 23:45
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I wish I had moves like Kim K.
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:i'm pretty sure if you pulled 10 random people, none of them would be able to tell you what it says but they would all know it's japanese and one or two might know it's "the easier kind of japanese."
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:i'm pretty sure if you pulled 10 random people, none of them would be able to tell you what it says but they would all know it's japanese and one or two might know it's "the easier kind of japanese." I'm pretty sure if you surveyed 100 randos then under 10 would know there was such a thing as easier Japanese. I would agree out of 10 they would all at least guess Japanese, but also Chinese and if youre lucky some horrifically racist guessing. I'm afraid you're weebness has coloured your view of the world.
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Oct 16, 2020 10:00
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a lot of detective work for what I assume is a joke
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Aramoro posted:I'm afraid you're weebness has coloured your view of the world. If we're gonna use "weeb" as a perjoriative, let's keep it to its intended meaning of "someone who jizzes their pants over the exoticness of media from the Mystic Orient" and not let it extend to meaning "someone who knows more than jack and poo poo about other cultures", eh?
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Whybird posted:If we're gonna use "weeb" as a perjoriative, let's keep it to its intended meaning of "someone who jizzes their pants over the exoticness of media from the Mystic Orient" and not let it extend to meaning "someone who knows more than jack and poo poo about other cultures", eh? I mean it still applies in this case so, sure?
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Oct 16, 2020 11:59
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There's two kinds of Chinese too.
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The Little Death posted:There's two kinds of Chinese too. chris rock's banned netflix special
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Whybird posted:If we're gonna use "weeb" as a perjoriative, let's keep it to its intended meaning of "someone who jizzes their pants over the exoticness of media from the Mystic Orient" and not let it extend to meaning "someone who knows more than jack and poo poo about other cultures", eh? Lol gently caress off weeb
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Whybird posted:If we're gonna use "weeb" as a perjoriative, let's keep it to its intended meaning of "someone who jizzes their pants over the exoticness of media from the Mystic Orient" and not let it extend to meaning "someone who knows more than jack and poo poo about other cultures", eh? *pulls ur underwear over ur head*
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Whybird posted:If we're gonna use "weeb" as a perjoriative, let's keep it to its intended meaning of "someone who jizzes their pants over the exoticness of media from the Mystic Orient" and not let it extend to meaning "someone who knows more than jack and poo poo about other cultures", eh? I believe 10 out of 10 Americans on the street can distinguish among Japanese writing systems at a glance. I am very smart at knowing things about other cultures.
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Straight White Shark posted:I believe 10 out of 10 Americans on the street can distinguish among Japanese writing systems at a glance. I am very smart at knowing things about other cultures. I think the average person could at least tell there are three different scripts; the curvy one, the pointy one, and the complicated one. Anything beyond that is a total crapshoot.
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Cleretic posted:I think the average person could at least tell there are three different scripts; the curvy one, the pointy one, and the complicated one. The 'average' person just assumes Japanese and all other Asian languages are moon runes and that's all. That being said, a fair slice of internet dwellers might know some katakana because it really is just the equivalent of a phonetic english substitution cipher. Going to the effort to know it probably makes you a weeb though. My judgement is final, there are no appeals.
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I was aware Japanese had two forms of writing, 3 is news to me. Couldn’t tell them apart, or from Chinese characters, with any confidence. I recognize Korean because of the circles. I don’t engage much with manga or Anime except for Splatoon because my son loves it so I recently learned about the books going right to left. And I’ve been on these forums for 18 years and read Kotaku for game news pretty regularly, so I’m probably mildly more tuned in than the “average” person. But obviously much less than anyone who has put in any effort to learn about Japanese culture beyond that one James May show.
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I think a lot of it is where you live/grew up. My area has a ginormous Korean population, so even the most oblivious turbohonkies can generally tell Korean from not-Korean because they see Korean on signs all the time.
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Yeah I mean I grew up in Oakland/San Francisco so there are sizeable populations of pretty much every Asian culture there, but I never had to engage with their writing much or figure out which was which. Ignorant middle class white dude here. Korean really is easier to spot because of the circles, which seem unique to those writing styles. But feel free to correct me on that, because again, ignorant white dude. I put my son in a bilingual public school to try to correct some of that dominant cultural ignorance. But it’s Spanish/English, so not really a correction on this particular front.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I think a lot of it is where you live/grew up. My area has a ginormous Korean population, so even the most oblivious turbohonkies can generally tell Korean from not-Korean because they see Korean on signs all the time. Really curious where there's a bunch of koreans and also turbohonkies
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https://twitter.com/TomHoltzPaleo/status/1317135464248246273?s=20quote:Paleontologists are left bemused after virtual conference’s profanity filter blocks words such as ‘bones, stream and Wang’ from their Q&A. The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) hosted its annual meeting as a virtual event throughout the week. Q&A sections held after each presentation became difficult as participants couldn't use a variety of words in their submissions.
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Oct 16, 2020 17:14
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stroke so nice they used it twice
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Riven posted:I was aware Japanese had two forms of writing, 3 is news to me. Couldn’t tell them apart, or from Chinese characters, with any confidence. The third form of Japanese writing *is* Chinese characters!
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Milo and POTUS posted:Really curious where there's a bunch of koreans and also turbohonkies Northern New Jersey.
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