@LtBullitt_ @Xin78787 These words were all created in Japan in the late 19th and early 20th century
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@OrientalPolitic @Xin78787 These words were all created by japan
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@Xin78787 oh my you just realizing that. they’re all coming from Hanzi, was benefited from Qin and perfect by Han. Where China, Japan, and Korea still want to keep on to character writing, some where in the 1800s, Vietnam has perfected into alphabet of Hanzi. your are the same people.
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@timbot2002 @Xin78787 These words are actually from Japan (albiet created by japanese scholars who used classical Chinese)
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@Xin78787 Korean and Vietnamese (and to a lesser extent Japanese) belong to a a general Chinese Sprachbund, where large amounts of Chinese vocabulary were adopted into structurally unrelated languages
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@cremieuxrecueil Correct. The chinese study was not placebo controlled and had many flaws and conflicts of interest. Statins have decades of rct’s backing them.
And nattokinase is available otc. Its not gatekeeped in any way.
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Because it's not as effective and it has a worse safety profile.
Next question?
Dr. Dawn Michael@DawnsMission
Why hasn’t nattokinase replaced statins? Joe Rogan discussed a study where 1,062 people took it for a year. Ultrasound showed their arterial plaque shrank 36%. This enzyme stops new blockages and reverses existing plaque. Why not mainstream yet?
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@besttrousers The left would call this "sealioning" if this were reversed.
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You should be able to answer basic questions about statistics you reference.
The Michael Knowles Show@MKnowlesShow
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@writerofscratch "Everyday life" is really a nebulous word.
Not seeing a TL word/phrase when you order coffee or during superficial conversation living as an expat is quite a bit different than never seeing it when all your media, social relationships, and work. Both in a sense are everyday life
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Not a fan of Oliver Jia at all (and considering he has blocked me, I presume he isn't a fan of me either lol) but I do agree there's plenty in the JLPT N1 you really don't encounter much, if at all, in everyday life in Japan.
Also: JLPT doesn't really fit into the CEFR scale.
あづまえびす@taicosama
Oliver Jia thinks JLPT N1 is about some "esoteric" grammar points. N1 isn't even C1 or C2 on the CEFR scale. It's just B2 (intermediate)
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LaGuardia crash shows the real problem with US aviation:
TOO MANY FLIGHTS, not enough manpower. Pilots, ATC, mechanics are all completely overworked, leading to situations like this. Bring back regulated flight schedules and these problems disappear.
Zen✨WECK@ZenWeck
@Turbinetraveler You can see how much of the nose is missing
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@its_anon_issue @yakusou8 You clearly need to spend less time reading Japanese and more time reading Twitter.
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@OliverJia1014 I think a big part of it is you have (1) Extra pathetic learners who eg. take a couple years to learn kana, (2) Extra effective/hardworking learners.
1 will criticize 2 for setting unrealistic expectations and 2 will criticize 1 for never making any progress.
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People who’ve studied languages like Russian, Italian, French, etc.
Are those learning communities as abrasive and needlessly hostile as the people studying Japanese?
I suspect soft power/weeb media is a big reason for why Japanese attracts a certain kind of person sometimes.
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@petsbysimon @TheWyteRabbit1 Pools have chlorine, salts have chloride
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@TheWyteRabbit1 You all do realize that salt is NaCl. The CL is is fucking CHLORINE.
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Have you ever considered what happens to your body when you get into a pool?
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@SaGa_NeilB This reminds me of how the director of Elden Ring said he left the story of the game deliberately vague because when he was learning english he liked the feeling of not completely understanding the story.
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Saw an interesting post on Reddit about a JP language learner who found that getting better at Japanese took away some of the magic of JP media. I think that's true for many people--even setting aside potential fetishism, there's a certain thrill in thinking about the unknown.
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@OliverJia1014 As someone who learned Chinese to a decently high level, I can tell you there are words and idioms I come across that natives don't know. What domains you actually interact with are going to heavily influence the vocabulary you encounter.
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So apparently や否や is used more than I thought, but I’m also getting people in the replies with N1 and others who’ve lived here for years telling me they’ve never seen it.
I guess a lot of this grammar is only going to show up if you often read certain books or visual novels.
Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア)@OliverJia1014
And this is why I hate the JLPT. I don’t think I’ve ever seen や否や used outside of studying for this exam.
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GENUINE question: do you think this is a looks-match? And what do you rate them? He's at least 2-3 points above her IMO. He is 7.5-8. She is a 5.
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@justalexoki Use alexander argüelles shadowing method when just starting out. You'll be at B1 in about 100 days with 15 min a day
youtu.be/130bOvRpt24?si…
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@airkatakana A possible good test case is 必 where the "official" Chinese and Japanese stroke order are different
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gpt-5.4 just one-shot colored stroke order diagrams for chinese and korean, what the fuck?
even this test image was created by it
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@airkatakana The numbering is correct, but the order of the colors is not consistent.
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