acrupio

Bin endlich dazu gekommen, eine Anime-5x5 zu machen. Mein Geschmack ist immer noch ziemlich langweilig.

@kingkuni69 Yeah, because it's a list of Japanese stuff I like. Crazy, I know.

@acrupio Your entire bio is Japanese despite being German. LARP

"Chinese lesbian tomboy" and it's a fucking Japanese character. Bait used to be believable.

@kingkuni69 I am not larping. I am just a German who knows Japanese. If your tourist ass can't imagine caring about anime and manga enough to actually learn the language, that's on you.

@acrupio You're a German larping as a Japanese lmao

@kingkuni69 The Kun'yomi for 砕蜂 would be something like Kudakibachi. The On'yomi of 砕蜂 would be Saihou. Instead, we have Soifon (indicated in katakana rubi), which approximates Chinese pronounciation (Mandarin Suìfēng, Cantonese Seoi3fung1). If you knew Japanese, you'd notice immediately

@acrupio 砕蜂 is Japanese for crushing bee and that's how her name is spelled in the manga so yes it does look like a Japanese name.

@star_xeno @kingkuni69 Ah yes, Yagami Raito, spelled 夜神月. Having a foreign-sounding personal name with a nonsensical kanji spelling is not that unusual for Japanese people. That's commonly called a "kira kira name". Do you know any Japanese people with a Chinese surname and a Chinese personal name?

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@chuujuwo 百合

これが公立中の中1がゴールデンウイーク前に学習する内容です。

Ich fand ja immer, dass GBC klingt wie ein obskures Research Chemical, aber CannaLily... Das ist ein Name für ein Startup, das irgendeine Gesetzeslücke ausnutzt, um Phytocannabinoid-Vapes zu verkaufen. HCB? CBG? Warte erst mal, bis du GBC ausprobiert hast!

危険な治療試してみる？

@Jayalynd @NakoMoonVT For Baxter-Sagart standards, it's pretty harmless. 華 huá "to flower" is reconstructed as *N-qʷʰˤra, with a tightly attached nasal preinitial and a pharyngealized, labialized aspirated uvular initial followed by a medial liquid.

@acrupio @NakoMoonVT I like the idea of pharyngealisation, but pairing it with an unvoiced nasal feels crazy.

Why is "mother" (母) inside the Japanese kanji for "sea" (海)? 🌊🤱🇯🇵 I was curious about this too, so I looked it up! 海 is made of 氵 (water radical) and 毎 (every). If you look closely, 毎 contains the character for mother (母)! 🔎 Here’s the origin: In ancient times, 毎 depicted a mother wearing many hair ornaments. Because these ornaments were layered together, the character came to mean "dense," "vast," or "so deep that it looks dark." So, 海 represents water (氵) that is so deep and vast (毎) that you cannot see the bottom! 💡 Fun fact: While many believe it’s because "the sea is the mother of life," the original etymological reason is to describe the sea's incredible depth and darkness. 🌸✨

@Jayalynd @NakoMoonVT One more controversial part of Baxter and Sagart's (2014) reconstruction of OC is that every Initial has a pharyngealized counterpart, which is very strange typologically. We don't know whether they actually pronounced it like that. It's just a solution to explain a later split.

@acrupio @NakoMoonVT Sorry, a voiceless pharyngealised labial nasal????

@HexnorSora @NakoMoonVT 1. Just because many people were taught something wrong doesn't mean we should teach it to more people. 2. A proper understanding of how Chinese characters work is most helpful to learners. 3. Some folk etymologies produce harmful misunderstandings of Chinese/Japanese culture.

@limabean2222 Thanks again. We have some even more amazing people here who are also fluent in Korean or Modern Chinese as well.

@acrupio so you know english, german, japanese, and classical chinese? that's incredible, much respect o7

@Andyilmatto @limabean2222 It's mostly just a list of things I like. If you know the right anime, most of it shouldn't be too difficult.

@acrupio @limabean2222 This comment intrigued me so much that I decided to follow you and hopefully one day I'll be able to decrypt your whole bio

@limabean2222 Thanks. The bio's not in Chinese, but very abbreviated, cryptic Japanese. Not using kana is a bit of the joke. I'm a German guy doing a PhD in Japanese linguistics, so I know Japanese and Classical Chinese. I like your profile pic. That's a relic from a more civilized age.

@acrupio I just went to your profile and its incredibly cool - your bio's chinese but you tweet in german and also somehow know japanese - how many languages do you know?

@Hieulegen27 @NakoMoonVT Yeah, the 毎-series is very consistent throughout Middle Chinese. Even anyone who studies Japanese probably notices that the On'yomi all rhyme. For the connection to 母, you have to get into the weeds a bit. But it's one of the more reasonable phonetic series (except for 毒).

@acrupio @NakoMoonVT You can also see this with other examples like 悔，晦，梅，霉，etc... which gives consistent correspondences The sound əʔ (or oj or woj in Middle chinese) was just really common back then. So these words just sounded similar.

@FrenchLJohn @NakoMoonVT It's 毋, technically, which is a variant of 母, originally. For many composite characters, both variants coexisted for the longest time. 毋 itself also used to mean something like 無 or 莫 in Classical Chinese, but it isn't used anymore except in some Chinese dialects.

@NakoMoonVT It look more like 田 than 母 imo

Es reflektiert für mich das Gefühl der Aushöhlung jeder Nische, die Reduktion des Diskurses auf Meme-Templates, die Paranoia vor Larpern und Touristen. Der Hauptgrund ist ganz klar die Entwicklung sozialer Medien, aber der Status als sozialer Habitus spielt sicher auch eine Rolle

Der Autor ist ein Arschloch, der Stil pseudo-profund, und das Genre "The World is my personal Zoo", aber der Artikel erfasst das Phänomen erstaunlich präzise. Dem "Ich würde lieber Sopranos schauen"-Techbro fehlt natürlich bloß jede Liebe für Subkultur außer als Abstraktion.

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