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Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd November 2005, 02:05 AM
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Posted By nipponman
Ok, I see your point. kunrei accent is better for...
Ok, I see your point. kunrei accent is better for showing the underlying grammatical functions of
words etc. However, can we agree that these grammatical underpinnings are rarely necessary
(except,...
Forum: Reading and Writing 21st November 2005, 07:58 PM
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Posted By nipponman
In japanese this is not the case. It will sound...
In japanese this is not the case. It will sound awkward, but you should be understood, unless you
randomly blurt out はしが あかい です。 Which seems unlikely. Furthermore, if you
aren't concerned with it,...
Forum: Reading and Writing 21st November 2005, 07:09 AM
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Posted By nipponman
If it is 100% hiragana, then the words will...
If it is 100% hiragana, then the words will already be spaced. Otherwise, there is no way to read
it. Justlikeifyouhadanallromajisystemandyoutookoutthespacesitwouldbehardtoread. Also, do you
find...
Forum: Reading and Writing 9th August 2005, 04:48 AM
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Posted By nipponman
. That's a little steep. When I was in...
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That's a little steep. When I was in Highschool, I learned that English has 600,000 words approx.
I don't think that it is feasable to for English to have 5,000,000+ words.
Do people use words...
Forum: Reading and Writing 8th August 2005, 02:29 AM
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Posted By nipponman
Dang. Ok, scratch that, bad example. :lol:...
Dang. Ok, scratch that, bad example.
:lol: You know you're contradicting yourself, right?
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th August 2005, 11:44 PM
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Posted By nipponman
I don't want to drag this discussion out, but I...
I don't want to drag this discussion out, but I think this sentence kinda proves my point:
結構特點。詞或短語構成句子。 Now, look at huo4. It is clearly serving as Huo4 Zhe3,
I am not sure that in literate writing...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th August 2005, 10:24 PM
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Posted By nipponman
True, I don't think Shibo intended this to become...
True, I don't think Shibo intended this to become a back-and-forth kinda thing.
Yeah but I think I know him from somewhere.
Anyway we are way off topic. I think we have basically covered all...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th August 2005, 10:14 PM
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Posted By nipponman
You seem kinda antagonistic Dennis, do you need...
You seem kinda antagonistic Dennis, do you need some sleep or something? Why not wait 'till the
discussion is over first, then bug everybody in a pm?(just kidding) Seriously though, we are
trying to...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th August 2005, 09:59 PM
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Posted By nipponman
To Dennis>むさしとは? To me, kanji is always...
To Dennis>むさしとは?
To me, kanji is always better, then hiragana, then romaji. But I can read in all of them.
This might sound weird but, when I first started learning Japanese (and Chinese as well) I...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th August 2005, 09:26 PM
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Posted By nipponman
Erm, I don't know if you noticed or not, but this...
Erm, I don't know if you noticed or not, but this is all a response to a genuine question about
Chinese. And though there have been movements on the romanization of both languages, that is not
really...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th August 2005, 09:21 PM
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Posted By nipponman
Not sure I quite understand. Right, if...
Not sure I quite understand.
Right, if you're to have a pinyin system tone marks and those kind of things are very important.
Fen1 wei2 is right, but he2 cheng2 is in my dictionary, NJStar,...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th August 2005, 07:20 PM
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Posted By nipponman
:clap You got it right. I didn't intend to put...
:clap You got it right. I didn't intend to put those extra "test" words in there either!
Sorry shibo, but this wasn't random. I wanted to see if people could read a text in pinyin with as
much...
Forum: Reading and Writing 7th August 2005, 09:04 AM
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Posted By nipponman
I got the article online (can't remeber where)...
I got the article online (can't remeber where) and quickly wrote it up in kana, it was originally
in kanji though.
Glad you agree, Sky..
Too bad I missed out on much of the discussion. I'll...
Forum: Reading and Writing 5th August 2005, 07:35 AM
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Posted By nipponman
タイプミス(げー)しましたよね。日本人を書きたかったが。。。
タイプミス(げー)しましたよね。日本人を書きたかったが。。。
Forum: Reading and Writing 5th August 2005, 03:26 AM
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Posted By nipponman
This has already been answered actually. I don't...
This has already been answered actually. I don't know where though.
Forum: Reading and Writing 5th August 2005, 03:10 AM
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Posted By nipponman
Kanji definitely. Again, it is takes more time to...
Kanji definitely. Again, it is takes more time to figure out the words. Sure if I were to see:
わたしはにほんじです。Or even Watashi wa nihonji desu. I would be able to read and
understand about as fast as if...
Forum: Reading and Writing 5th August 2005, 02:47 AM
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Posted By nipponman
definitely.
definitely.
Forum: Reading and Writing 5th August 2005, 02:33 AM
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Posted By nipponman
I'm sorry, I gave up before the end of the first...
I'm sorry, I gave up before the end of the first sentence. That is an eyesore.
Forum: Reading and Writing 5th August 2005, 01:45 AM
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Posted By nipponman
I hope you don't mind me asking then, are you a...
I hope you don't mind me asking then, are you a native speaker gato?
You'd thnk that native Cantonese would be able to read a phonetic script a little better than
would a mandarin speaker. This a...
Forum: Reading and Writing 5th August 2005, 01:40 AM
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Posted By nipponman
Thanks skylee for the info. I got so caught up...
Thanks skylee for the info. I got so caught up that I forgot to thank you.
Forum: Reading and Writing 4th August 2005, 08:29 PM
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Posted By nipponman
Good point. I notice that when I read something...
Good point. I notice that when I read something to see if it is useful or not, I just skim through
it catching the characters and seeing what is going on.
Forum: Reading and Writing 4th August 2005, 07:39 PM
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Posted By nipponman
So, you're saying Quest and Skylee don't know...
So, you're saying Quest and Skylee don't know enough chinese? They tried to read a pinyin thingy
and found it difficult. Not because pinyin is more practical, but because it is just harder to
read....
Forum: Reading and Writing 4th August 2005, 08:45 AM
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Posted By nipponman
It's much more than emotional attachment, believe...
It's much more than emotional attachment, believe me. I am not natively asian, so I don't think I
would care one way or the other had I not began learning kanji over 7 years ago.
This problem exists...
Forum: Reading and Writing 4th August 2005, 04:15 AM
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Posted By nipponman
I still don't think that a purely phonetic script...
I still don't think that a purely phonetic script would work. When I say "work", I mean it
wouldn't be effective, feasable, easier, etc. I.e it would have no benefits. Characters, convey
meaning. You...
Forum: Reading and Writing 3rd August 2005, 08:01 PM
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Posted By nipponman
I thought this was an old thread for some...
I thought this was an old thread for some reason...
No, you're wrong on that. Because, unless you're just spouting off words for no reason (which
people rarely do), you'll have a context to what...
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