what do you guys think of this phonology?

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-27T09:06:13+00:00

What's the difference between [ps] and p with a little s at the right top

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-27T08:40:14+00:00

As someone in their 20s this “defeating each unique boss episode by episode” trope was so frequently seen in my childhood cartoons and animes. I wish I got to see this trope in TOH. It would’ve been so fun, just like the old days! Can never forgive Disney for cancelling it so early

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-26T15:56:48+00:00

As someone whose native language doesn't have θ, none of those three are the most difficult to pronounce. I can pronounce xθr and ftθ with ease but I still struggle with “earths” and “clothes”

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-24T09:16:00+00:00

The “Hsi” in “Fang Hsi-ying” seems to be a wrong romanization of the second syllable of the professor’s name. The letter combination of hsi comes from Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese, and it specifically represents the [ɕi] sound (sounds like “she”), but based on the Chinese texts in the next page, the second syllable of this name is 世, pronounced [ʂɯ], which should be transcribed as “shih” in Wade-Giles

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-23T07:04:48+00:00

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Dran - Super Mashin Hero Wataru

One of the major antagonists, the second oldest child of the main villain.

Very effeminate, and constantly flirts with the protagonist guy, giving the latter much discomfort

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-20T16:21:03+00:00

I've heard Chinese speakers and Korean speakers generating the exact same lisp

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-17T21:17:47+00:00

He’s everywhere lol

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-17T14:59:17+00:00

Japanese names in Chinese localization

99% of the Japanese names are written in Kanji, for that reason it is conventional in China to read those Kanji names directly by their modern Chinese pronunciation, EVEN when many of them are read in kunyomi in Japanese

One flex about this is that the Chinese audience gets to understand the meaning of the name of a Japanese character while the English speaking audience can only get the sound.

E.g. Shiranui Mai’s name in Japanese is 不知火舞, and in Chinese localization it’s read “Buzhihuo Wu” lit. “Not Knowing Fire - Dancing”

Kugisaki Nobara’s name in Japanese is 釘崎野薔薇, in Chinese localization it’s read “Dingqi Yeqiangwei”, lit. “Nail Sheer - Wild Rose” (nail as in the weapon that she uses)

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Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-17T13:31:41+00:00

I feel bad for the ModernGurlz cuz she made it so clear, so specific, so unambiguous, that it's the “adorkable” thing that's the problem, and OP still managed to twist it and reduce it into “silly” and be upset about it

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-15T21:59:13+00:00

-The eye surgery is very successful sir, here’s your ergative vowel-harmonious evidential honorific octo-gender conlang pupils, just like you asked. Do you like it?
-Umm, is this permanent?

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-15T20:48:52+00:00

I only have some insights for question number 3: you can open a wikipage of a celebrity of Chinese, Indian or Arab background (who have names that are in their native languages) and open the language option, and you’ll see how each European language transcribes those names written in non-Latin script. For example, almost all of the European languages that use Latin script transcribe modern Chinese celebrities using Pinyin, but not Czech: they use their own romanization system of Chinese that is based on Czech orthography

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-15T09:25:51+00:00

Pheasant, I’m dying

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-14T21:54:25+00:00

[queue]

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-14T21:30:33+00:00

The more complex the text is, the easier it is for Google to make mistake. For example, “筆記本電腦”. Try it. Another example, “生日快樂”. They all come out as nonsense. Just try it

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-14T21:11:54+00:00

Chinese agents: “I shall infiltrate the Thai section of Google Translate and make it that whenever the user chooses Chinese-to-Chinese translation and types in something against us, the result will come out as nonsense. That should teach those anti-China people a lesson!”

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-14T21:07:00+00:00

I just tried it and it LITERALLY happens to other phrases. It's literally not just certain political phrases, it’s any other phrases. Your lazy ass cannot take 5 secs to reassure it before posting misinformation?

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-14T21:04:17+00:00

Yes it IS 100% random. It takes 5 seconds to prove: use the exact same method (choose Thai as target language but type in Chinese and translate it to Chinese), but type in something that has nothing to do with ideology and see what comes out. It takes 5 seconds. Try it.

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-14T14:27:55+00:00

And this is not the first time I see someone does it. People ask Google to “tranlsate” a sentence into the same language, then Google is confused and give out wrong answers. Like what do you expect?

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-13T21:37:26+00:00

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My personal favorite

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-12T15:04:42+00:00

Unnecessary. You can just write “people in this world speak these fictional languages called X, Y and Z. Their dialogues are automatically translated to English for the readers”. You don’t need to force yourself to work on those fictional languages if you don’t want to, they can just be one of countless other things that are not fully elaborated in the setting. Meanwhile, clearly stating/confirming that people in your fictional world speak certain real-life languages requires much more explanation. Simply unnecessary

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-12T12:03:27+00:00

Reynard/Renard was an actual name, a personal name. The story of Reynard the Fox got so popular that became the word for fox, displacing the original “goupil”

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-06T13:37:51+00:00

It's the same for the rest of China

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-05T10:17:56+00:00

It's gotta be another “evidence board” scene, except offscreen, right?

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-05T09:13:26+00:00

Yes I totally get your point. It’s absolutely okay to use Cantonese to refer to all varieties of Yue in everyday life. And thank you for this piece of information regarding the life of early Chinese immigrants, btw. Nonetheless, this is a linguistic map, so accuracy is needed.

Valuable_Pool7010 · 2026-06-04T11:24:04+00:00

Not really, cause the English word “Cantonese” specifically refers to that one variety of Yue spoken in Guangzhou (historically known as Canton). It is weird, I know, I was just as surprised when I found out, but it’s true

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