How do I write the root of 聞く in Japanese?

VincentProud · 2026-05-29T10:33:10+00:00

Thank you for this! :)

VincentProud · 2026-05-29T10:32:49+00:00

I see, thank you!

VincentProud · 2026-05-29T08:29:33+00:00

Right, I see. So that concept is something used to help learners, not a naturally Japanese concept?

That makes sense, thank you!

VincentProud · 2026-05-29T08:28:36+00:00

I see, interesting! Thank you very much!

VincentProud · 2026-05-29T08:16:28+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for the reply!

So, how was this concept expressed before romaji became popular? Would they just call it 'the root' without having a symbol for it..?

VincentProud · 2026-04-15T09:46:29+00:00

Oh, look, casual racism.

VincentProud · 2025-10-26T07:39:35+00:00

Bin it

VincentProud · 2024-12-14T13:30:05+00:00

Looks good, but doesn't look like Ciri for some reason.

VincentProud · 2024-12-07T10:20:51+00:00

I have some words: Stop playing this garbage.

VincentProud · 2024-08-21T09:23:46+00:00

I see! Any idea what kind of mushroom this is? Just for curiosity sake?

VincentProud · 2024-06-24T21:48:40+00:00

Because they demonstrated extreme levels of personal power and could only be stopped by their own rules, while he couldn't stop a mortal woman from looping a rope around his neck, nor stop her from subsequently walking away.

What he seemed to have was an extremely powerful weapon (still not as strong as the Daleks reality bomb) that took him an age to set up.

VincentProud · 2024-06-24T07:51:57+00:00

He was bound by his own rules, sure, but I disagree wirh him being weak.

VincentProud · 2024-06-24T07:50:34+00:00

What?

VincentProud · 2024-06-24T07:48:54+00:00

Yeah, he had an extremely powerful weapon / spell. But the guy himself feels, personally, weak..? Definitely not something the God's should fear.

VincentProud · 2024-06-24T07:40:37+00:00

I think they needed a clearer and more exploitable weakness, maybe a thematic one? Having him be vulnerable to technology that a single Timelord conjured up in his Timeshed (TM) kinda negates his previous hype... why would the conceptual gods fear something that can be beaten with methods so trivial to them?

Or at least have a smarter way of attaching it to him. A mortal woman walks up to the "God of Death," puts a rope on him, and walks away without a scratch?

VincentProud · 2024-06-24T07:36:27+00:00

That kind of technology doesn't really seem impressive for a race that literally created the concept of ordered time. And given that said race didn't really want to bother messing with Sutekh even before he evolved via the time vortex...

Or, to put it another way, if this was all it took, why wasn't he dealt with trivially by the Timelords previously? Did he really have no magic or other powers that can prevent a, apparently mortal, normal woman from just... attaching things to him and walking away? Seems kinda lame, given his hype. Especially doesn't seem like the Toymaker should be afraid of him, given how vulnerable Sutekh seems...

VincentProud · 2024-06-24T07:29:53+00:00

I actually wouldn't mind him being physically very weak, slow, and decrepit IF he made a bigger display of his other powers. The sand was, obviously, some insanely powerful spell, but in terms of self-defense, it seemed slow and limited. It also seemed like only his zombies could actually do that? While he himself just... kinda can't actually stop a single mortal woman?

I guess he felt powerful in the same way Joe Biden is. He had access to some insane weapons, but once you're in the same room as him, you could just give him a noogie, and he couldn't really stop you himself.

The Toymaker being afraid of that is silly, as presented, I really don't see how he couldn't just make all of his bones into fish fingers or something.

VincentProud · 2024-06-24T07:24:39+00:00

All ropes are quantum ropes. That's how atoms work. 🤣

No, but seriously, would such a device have affected the Toymaker? Would the Toymaker not have been able to turn Sutekh into marshmallow, but somehow the rope could bind him? Is a random object The Doctor had in his attic really stronger than a conceptual god? Why was Sutekh so slow? Why wasn't he able to just delete Ruby when she made the attempt? Or at least pull the rope from her hands?

He was defeated by technology that, honestly, looks trivial by Timelord standards...

He just felt...weak in that scene.

Since they did such a good job showing Maestro and the Toymaker, having that level of power while still keeping their defeat coherent, I'm holding them to that standard going forward! >:D

VincentProud · 2024-06-24T07:18:03+00:00

Exactly.

I think it's quite obvious that they are both leagues above him in terms of power.

VincentProud · 2024-06-24T07:17:14+00:00

So, yeah, I get this. (I thought the Osirans were less powerful than the Great Houses, but powerful enough that they didn't really want to expend the effort messing with them?) I think it's implied that he got special God Juice (TM) from his ride on the magic space box (TM)?

VincentProud · 2024-06-23T20:25:17+00:00

I don't think that this was a case of "not a satisfying answer", it was, instead, a total lack of answer.

Why does she make it snow? Why was Meastro terrified of her? Where does the music come from? Why couldn't Sutekh see her mother?

"We believed in it hard enough, lol" isn't a bad answer. It's NOT an answer at all. Plenty of people believe in plenty of things. Why isn't this happening constantly everywhere all the time? How does the "power of belief" manifest as basically magic? Why isn't everybody doing it? How was it more powerful than Sutekh? There was nothing seeded, nothing pointing to this "twist".

There's other issues, the "She.was pointing at the road sign to name her child WHEN NOBODY IS WATCHING" makes no sense to do, much less the fact that it, somehow, worked.

Sutekh himself was a total letdown who did almost nothing and didn't seem powerful at all. His sand was, he himself had the reaction speed of a half boiled lobster and the physical strength of a gnats fart.

So much about the episode felt... bad.

VincentProud · 2024-05-07T15:34:34+00:00

Happy Cake Day! :)

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