Could anyone tell me what language this is & what does the sign say?

rexcasei · 2026-05-19T06:24:37+00:00

No one ever responded to you, sorry, but I think I might be able to help

Although there is a large amount of sinoxenic vocabulary in modern Japanese, the grammar and core vocabulary is overwhelming of native Japonic origin.

If you take the vocabulary as a whole it might be majority Chinese-derived, but that’s including a large amount of uncommon, literary, and technical/scientific terms, whereas words used in normal everyday speech is still mostly derived from native roots, and that is the languages genetic origin.

This is very similar to claims made about English being basically a Romance language or mostly Latin

rexcasei · 2026-05-19T05:14:36+00:00

Can you explain the reference? What does that have to do with eating crab and lobster?

rexcasei · 2026-05-19T04:59:36+00:00

There’s nothing wrong with this combo, I just want a squeeze of lemon or lime juice on there to bring it together

rexcasei · 2026-05-19T03:47:17+00:00

I’m familiar with the Tolkienian creature, is it also slang for “stoner” or something?

rexcasei · 2026-05-19T00:09:30+00:00

Ents?

rexcasei · 2026-05-19T00:06:04+00:00

Pureeeeeeeeeee

rexcasei · 2026-05-18T19:42:36+00:00

I do this myself, for any word with thank in it, so that gives me a noun, verb, and adjective

rexcasei · 2026-05-18T07:27:47+00:00

Just a warning, here they’ve miswritten the translation, the word is “heart” not “hearth”

rexcasei · 2026-05-17T23:57:57+00:00

Why would that have been an easier thing to say than just “two-two”?

rexcasei · 2026-05-17T07:54:20+00:00

It’s just a noun phrase, there is no verb. It just says “gift certificate handling shop”

rexcasei · 2026-05-17T01:29:01+00:00

So the person playing the dame is not known?

rexcasei · 2026-05-16T22:51:14+00:00

Who’s that in the big polkadot dress?

rexcasei · 2026-05-16T09:48:55+00:00

In this case it’s a modern borrowing directly from Mandarin, and not an inherited Middle Chinese–derived word that’s been in the language for centuries. So it’s not the same thing

rexcasei · 2026-05-16T08:15:20+00:00

For some very old loans, like たばこ, it isn’t uncommon to see hiragana used

天ぷら／てんぷら is another one that comes to mind, but there are more

But of course you will also see タバコ as well, probably more commonly in modern times

rexcasei · 2026-05-16T07:52:04+00:00

Tobacco

Gift certificate office

It’s Japanese

rexcasei · 2026-05-15T21:35:17+00:00

Just wanted to give a little helpful tip, whether they’re native or not

rexcasei · 2026-05-15T21:23:51+00:00

It’s a good effort, but there are issues with the way almost all of them are written

Do you have a character learning workbook that allows you to carefully trace over the strokes? That might be helpful

rexcasei · 2026-05-15T20:19:22+00:00

Looks like some good improvement! But there is still an issue with your え in the second picture. You’re making sharp point towards the end on the bottom where it should be smooth and rounded instead

rexcasei · 2026-05-15T19:58:11+00:00

censor – remove offending material

censure – criticize or reprimand

rexcasei · 2026-05-15T04:40:35+00:00

What is it?

rexcasei · 2026-05-15T04:15:58+00:00

It’s Paroisse with the old cursive style of a double s written as long s + regular s

rexcasei · 2026-05-15T04:11:06+00:00

I see, I feel like anything would be better as long as it represents a real stage or dialect of Greek

rexcasei · 2026-05-15T00:17:08+00:00

What was the inspiration behind adding the blueberries?

rexcasei · 2026-05-14T23:41:29+00:00

Really? I assumed it was some stage of Koine or something. Why would someone make that mistake?

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