Kami

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• MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, in English:

  Yoo-hoo! Thereau thoroughly thought ‘twas you, Hugh, who threw Theaux through the tough dough trough.

  Thou laughed, though! No? He ought not’ve thought aught of it.

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  • Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tbf, that was a hard fucking read even with English as my sole language

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• EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, a perfectly logical English sentence:

  Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

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  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Any even number of police is also a complete sentence

    Police police.

    Police police police police.

    Police police police police police police. Etc.

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    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love this.

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• SatouKazuma@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You forgot about 噛み (to bite)

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• atro_city@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It it a homonym? Or is this due to their different scripts?

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  • wjs018@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These are homophones in Japanese. Same thing as words like their/there/they’re or seas/sees/seize, etc. Words that sound the same but are written differently. The Japanese language has tons of them. Often, the ambiguity around homophones is used as a source of humor, causing misunderstandings between characters in anime/manga or puns that add a layer of humor to an otherwise normal thing to say.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Smh, cant believe the japanese still hate gay people. /s

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    • m4xie@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also, cease is pretty close.

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  • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Complete guess, but probably because these are Chinese characters (kanji), which is more phonetic.

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    • name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe a tonal difference as well?

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  • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Both kinda, they have different scripts because they have so many homophones. Japanese has far fewer phonemes (possible sounds) compared to english, this combined with the fact that you usually can’t have two consonants together without a vowel in between makes it so the amount of possible words is very limited. Because of this if you used just the “phonetic” script hiragana ( each character represents a sound) then it would get confusing since かみ that represents the sound “kami” would be confusing as to what you’re referring to. So they mix in kanji, Chinese characters where a character represents a thing, to distinguish these homophones.

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• UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  kami kami kami -> Paper hair God

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  • BambiDiego@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought it was The God of paper hair

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    • SatouKazuma@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same thing, semantically speaking. But you can kind of play around with word order via the use of particles.

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• rizo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My favourite is still: 庭には二羽鶏がいる Niwa niwa niwa niwatori ga iru There are two chicken in the garden.

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  • Trail@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still chuckle years ago later with a skit from Trick: zou no zou no zou (elephant shaped statue).

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  • SatouKazuma@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate that the counter made this sentence needlessly difficult to parse.

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• hypertown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My favorite has to be 切る. 26 ducking meanings! It’s not even a different kanji per meaning! WTF!

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• fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Japanese has significantly fewer sounds than many languages, so homonyms are inevitable.

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  • MadBigote@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I find fun to learn Japanese. It’s the fourth language I study, and so far it’s been both different and intuitive, but I fear the moment where I need to go deeper into kanji, given the limitations you mention.

    It’s also a slower process than learning any major language, as it took us a few weeks to get to review their letters. Its been fulfilling so far, but I don’t know how invested one can be once you reach a certain point of increased complexity.

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    • fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It depends on what your likes/dislikes are when it comes to languages. I much preferred learning kanji to memorizing noun genders and verb conjugations of European languages.

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• blayde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Snowcano@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did Duolinho tell you that? Because it’s dead-ass wrong.

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