JavaScript is required to use Bungie.net

OffTopic

Surf a Flood of random discussion.
8/10/2014 7:34:55 PM
13

i don't get japanese

i don't intend on learning japanese at all but i do wish to solve a couple of conundrums involving the language so there's three syllabaries, i know that much katakana, hiragana, and kanji, which is based off of chinese to my understanding, there are [i]thousands[/i] of different characters (letters) when you combine all of that nonsense apart from each of these japanese characters looking like absolute chickenscratch, i can only imagine that learning, memorizing, and even READING and WRITING these characters must be the worst thing ever every japanese foreign exchange student i've ever met has perfect, almost robotic, handwriting that's because japanese letters are so pointlessly complex the point of the written word is to simplify one's thoughts onto an easily readable sheet japanese just has to be so cumbersome about it how do japanese keyboards work? is it like a graphing calculator where each key has a second and third character? because there's no way a standard japanese keyboard has more than fifty or sixty keys, that would be just ridiculous i've also heard it said that of all the characters in japanese, most japanese speakers (even in japan) only know a small fraction of them, because they only need to know a small fraction of them in their daily lives. so, what? if they're reading a book, or talking to someone, and they use a word they've never heard before because it's made up of a bunch of letters he's never heard before, what? is he just f­ucked? or do people just try to avoid using weird words in japanese so that people will understand? i mean, that sounds boring as all hell. I think part of the beauty of language is getting to use a bunch of strange words to get your point across in distinct emotional ways. what are japanese dictionaries like? if you've never seen a character before, how do you look it up? the characters are obviously not ORDERED in any rational way, like the latin alphabet. so what gives? how can you look up a word if you don't know how to even look for it? weeaboos should be able to help me out here
English
#Offtopic

Posting in language:

 

Play nice. Take a minute to review our Code of Conduct before submitting your post. Cancel Edit Create Fireteam Post

View Entire Topic
You are not allowed to view this content.
;
preload icon
preload icon
preload icon