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| YonicBoom 07/15/18 10:00:10 AM #34: | Yomi posted... As weird as that explanation is, it seems to tick for people who have trouble with kanji when I explain it to them :P I always liked explaining it like - Count - Try - Country where counting and trying are their own separate words, and country has nothing whatsoever to do with either counting or trying, but if you pronounced "count" as in "country" on its own, you could get slapped. I think I prefer your explanation a bit better as it lends itself to the actuality of Japanese (and Chinese, by extension) a lot better. As long as the people you're explaining this to don't go in expecting to see or anything, taking your example too literally ( is technically EXACTLY that though, just not pronounced thank god). The number of symbols and logos the average person knows is astounding, so I like to use that as an example too. For example, $ can be read a LOT of different ways depending on context (cash, dollars, money) which all mean similar/same things, but different. # as well, and don't get me started on context-sensitive abbreviations and whatnot (somehow we have no trouble understanding "atm" in different contexts despite being shorthand for two different things). And it's theorized that the average person knows upwards of 1000+ corporate logos by the age of 10, which is really not different at all from knowing the around the same age. --- All these boomas like me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVkkHVl8QvE ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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