[Maybe if they both pretend this isn't embarrassing, then it will circle around and end up being normal? Atsushi sure isn't saying anything, he doesn't want to spook her. Or himself.]
A lot of them are kind of dumb, and the rest are just things I can do? I guess 'reading' is something that I could teach if someone is illiterate, I'm really good at reading kanji.
Okay. Well to start off with, the language I know uses a mixture of symbols and letters. The letters are usually meant to add clarity where the symbols might be a bit too difficult to parse though.
[He pulls out one of these things because yes I asked the mods if party city had these specifically to use here. And he's writing '人' on the board.]
Like this one here, this means 'person'. But if you wanted to say 'this person', as in a specific person, you would add a couple letters before that symbol to make it clear which person you meant.
Yeah. It makes for much more condensed writing, because you can say a whole sentence in just a few symbols.
[He erases the board and writes a few symbols that say 'my name is Atsushi' but fuuuuck digging out the kanji and hiragana for that.]
That one there is one of the ways we say 'I', and then that one is 'name', and then this one here is Atsushi! And the smaller letters just fill in the gaps to make it grammatically correct.
Pretty much. There's a little more to it than that but it's specific stuff for Japanese.
[Please don't ask me to explain how Japanese grammar works, I only took one year in college have mercy on me.]
-oh! I should say too, a lot of times symbols written for names will have letters written next to it to tell you how to pronounce it. Since each symbol can be pronounced a couple of different ways depending on how it's used in a sentence.
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Date: 2022-03-03 01:06 am (UTC)Yes... You hadn't heard about it before, either?
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Date: 2022-03-03 01:08 am (UTC)I've heard of it, but I haven't played it before.
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Date: 2022-03-03 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-03 01:12 am (UTC)That first one was pretty hard, yeah. I didn't have anything to teach people. It was interesting to see what others knew though.
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Date: 2022-03-03 01:13 am (UTC)Really, nothing? I think people would have been glad to hear or see at least something you had to tell them about.
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Date: 2022-03-03 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-03-03 01:53 am (UTC)[Yeah he's underestimating himself.]
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Date: 2022-03-03 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-03 02:27 am (UTC)I don't think anyone would want to learn about stuttering or 'falling ass-up'.
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Date: 2022-03-03 02:28 am (UTC)I have not really looked at them... Is that really all it says?
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Date: 2022-03-03 02:36 am (UTC)[But how many people here are illiterate?]
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Date: 2022-03-03 02:37 am (UTC)You could show me that, if you wanted to.
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Date: 2022-03-03 02:43 am (UTC)[He considers it.]
I...guess I could, sure. If you want to learn, that is?
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Date: 2022-03-03 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-03 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-03 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-03 03:51 am (UTC)[He pulls out one of these things because yes I asked the mods if party city had these specifically to use here. And he's writing '人' on the board.]
Like this one here, this means 'person'. But if you wanted to say 'this person', as in a specific person, you would add a couple letters before that symbol to make it clear which person you meant.
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Date: 2022-03-03 03:54 am (UTC)It's so small compared to writing it out in letters...
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Date: 2022-03-03 04:07 am (UTC)[He erases the board and writes a few symbols that say 'my name is Atsushi' but fuuuuck digging out the kanji and hiragana for that.]
That one there is one of the ways we say 'I', and then that one is 'name', and then this one here is Atsushi! And the smaller letters just fill in the gaps to make it grammatically correct.
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Date: 2022-03-03 04:09 am (UTC)[looking over what he's written on the board.]
So, the smaller letters change it from I name Atsushi to my name is Atsushi, basically?
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Date: 2022-03-03 04:27 am (UTC)[Please don't ask me to explain how Japanese grammar works, I only took one year in college have mercy on me.]
-oh! I should say too, a lot of times symbols written for names will have letters written next to it to tell you how to pronounce it. Since each symbol can be pronounced a couple of different ways depending on how it's used in a sentence.
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Date: 2022-03-03 04:29 am (UTC)How long did it take you to learn all this?
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Date: 2022-03-03 04:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-03 04:48 am (UTC)[after a pause, though:]
You see? You have plenty to teach others.
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