Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Kanji Story - How Japan Overloaded Chinese Characters" video.

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@Luboman411 Nobody dies from laughing anything to death. Perapera translates 笑死 as "‎laughing to death.‎" This sort of thing is the normal way human languages work. All of them. Always.
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@alejandromatosanguis5267 "I don't think the "bu" in asobu is included in the kanji." Of course it is. That's what the on-yomi/kun-yomi distinction is all about; it's about how you read it.
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@wngmv Almost but not quite. It means mother in the sense of not being the teenager she looks like. Western understandings of Asian age and respect tokens often have slight errors of this type. "Respect for age," for instance, is not a matter of devotion to the aged. In Japan the sixtieth birthday is celebrated in red, signifying the blood of a new childhood, the infantile inability of dotage; respect for age means the eighteen-year-old takes orders from the twenty-something manager and shuts up about it.
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@Tzahr Koreans use a mixture of Chinese characters, Hangul, and Roman and Arabic characters. The Roman and Arabic ones are newfangled additions to the Chinese characters to which King Sejong added Hangul a few centuries back. Your version, Roos, is some sort of weirdie Official Reality spouted by pedagogical halfwits and has only tenuous contact with this planet.
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@alejandromatosanguis5267 You and the 101 people who have upvoted you at this point are being extremely stupid. How would you pronounce it? In English we'd say "That's the verb 'to play.'" None of "to," "play," "that's," "the," or "verb" is in the kanji. Your comment is just as ridiculous as that one.
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"Hiragana, katakana and kanji are the three basic scripts in the Japanese writing system. " Uh, no. Those are three of the main five. Romaji are far more common than katakana, and Arabic numerals are far more common than Chinese glyphs for the numbers.
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"4 out of 5 students agree: Kanji = Evil." Well, it's obvious, innit? This being the digital and binary age, we should all switch to Morse code. Just dots and dashes. No pesky 26 letters to memorize. Simple. Easy. Musical. Some of us can be beep and boop-ers; others dings and dongs. Only the stick-in-the-mud traditionalists need be stuck with dots and dashes. Red/green, fiddle and faddle -- on into the brave new world made possible by the binary revolution, the death of those clumsy old pictograms, ateji, kana, and the rest of that. Got it, boomers?
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