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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is China-nese. Original Chinese, its

四是四,十是十,十四是十四,四十是四十; 誰把十四說“十適”,就打他十四; 誰把四十說“適十”,就打他四十

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thank you for helping my point. Also.... Aaaaaa... Why is the so many characters?!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Its honestly only a handful of characters.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No I mean the minor difference ones. Or how I am supposed to memorize 5000 hanzi to be considered college literate. This is a bunch of repeating but good Lord there is a lot of individual characters out there.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's sorta like memorizing the word encyclopedia. I'm sure if there were a handful of letters missing or wrong you could still read it. Because you don't memorize the letters but what it looks like. Exactly how Chinese works.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Fair enough. I like that a pot looks like a pot, fire looks like fire, and a house is little house but it's still confusing. You can't really sound it out you have to have the shape memorized.

    I'll try to keep this in mind if I ever try to expand past my 100 character brain limit but I'm not sure I have the capacity for all that anymore, if I ever did.

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