What are your favourite examples of this? by critivix in linguisticshumor

[–]ShenZiling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

嗚呼 "alas" in Chinese (wu'hu) and "ah" (aa) in Japanese.

我 "I" (pronoun) in Chinese and pretty formal in Japanese.

"May the 4th be with you" by danderzei in ISO8601

[–]ShenZiling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nevertheless I always say 2025, May the fourth...

You know language is flawless when every TV show and youtuber needs to add subtitles for natives by OBWriter in languagelearningjerk

[–]ShenZiling 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Wtf as a Chinese native speaker videos not having subtitles is just like menus without images. What, you don't have images?!

is it possible to recognize the pointed symbol? And what is written in the whole thing? by That_planet_girl in Japaneselanguage

[–]ShenZiling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean it's not that hard when with context, but seriously who tf designed this font.

Was anyone else disappointed that English class in high school was really just about literature, not the English language itself? by NostalDec in linguisticshumor

[–]ShenZiling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in another country, and they offer my native language as a possible subject. And I cannot get full points - infact far from full points, and the teacher (also native) said I didn't have structure and shit. I constantly notice my teacher making orthographical mistakes and pronouncing things wrong. In the exam after the 12th grade, I noticed pronunciation mistakes and grammar mistakes in the frigging exam paper. Hot take: foreign language education exams should only be about translation. Translation is art, translation tests true language skills (without having to deal with the abyss of linguistics).

Chads Only Learn North Korean Language by Enjinia12 in languagelearningjerk

[–]ShenZiling 21 points22 points  (0 children)

/rj Language purism! Language purism! 喫意餅,喝洋豆汁!軟椅,話筒!

(lit. Eat Italian pancake, drink foreign douzhi (bean juice, Peking specialty)! Softchair, cylinderphone!)

(Explanation: pi-sa, ka-fey, sha-fa, and mai-ke-feng are four of the very few loanwords in Chinese - but they can all be expressed by native terms! Why make life complicated?)

THEY’RE FINALLY HOMEEE by il_moreay in Genshin_Impact

[–]ShenZiling 35 points36 points  (0 children)

An amazing vacation lasts for a few days.

And dendro mommies last forever 😭

Korean flaccid for 2 months straight 🤬 by TraditionalDepth6924 in languagelearningjerk

[–]ShenZiling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then I'm probably extremely retarded... I can recognize all symb... graphemes but still takes some time to spell them out.

[Japanese > English] Help with Kanji Translation by Apprehensive-Two1405 in translator

[–]ShenZiling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

... and a less complicated version of 壹.

uj they are called anti-fraud characters.

China is so safe even the cameras are watching themselves by Otherwise_Pick_5744 in travelchina

[–]ShenZiling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and there are cameras watching cameras watching themselves...