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Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop ·Jul 25
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures...as a lapsed Greek/Latin scholar this helps me understand written Japanese and ruby notation way better!
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gjenny 🐌
@Marmalade@kind.social ·Jul 25
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures i didn't understand τζιζος until i read it like a japanese person trying to sound american
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Alexander Janßen
@itnomad@ruhr.social ·Jul 26
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures Do not give me any funny ideas for my next architecture decision record document! ...I mean, it's has value... stakeholders sometimes complain I'd be using to much jargon? :-)
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Dźwiedziu
@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social ·Jul 25
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures I only see two alphabets, so get back to me when cyrillic or runes are in the mix :p
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S T E L L A R :bun:
@Stellar@mk.absturztau.be ·Jul 25
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures @mametsuko@mk.absturztau.be@mk.absturztau.be accurate?
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Keeper of the orb
@hi_cial@donphan.social ·Jul 25
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures thats it thats the feel
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Ember is so tired. :catplant:​
@Ember@blobfox.coffee ·Jul 25
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures tbh the explanations for unusual pronunciations above the words is something that would be cool if more languages had
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Remi :blobhaj_flag_transgender:
@SeaDonut@tech.lgbt ·Jul 25
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures@kirakira@furry.engineer might like this
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🚧Monster Can Ashley🏗️
@kirakira@furry.engineer ·Jul 25
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@SeaDonut@tech.lgbt @hannah@posts.rat.pictures i want english furigana so bad
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eevee 🦊
@eevee@slime.global ·Jul 25
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures absolute nightmare 😌
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me ·Jul 26
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures If I didn't screw up the greek, here's an hypertext version: AVE(hail) μερι,fullofGRATIAM(grace) theDOMINUM(lord)iswithyou DENEDĪCŌ(bless)edartthoughamonst FĒMINAE(women) DENEDĪCŌ(bless)edistheFRŪCTUM(fruit)of thywomb,τζιζος SĀNCTUS(holy)μερι,MĀTER(mother)ofDEUS(god) PRECĀRĪ(pray)forusPECCĀTUM(sin)e rsnowandatheHŌRAM(hour)ofo urMORTEM(death) AMEN(amen)
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Marcos Dione
@mdione@en.osm.town ·Jul 26
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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @hannah@posts.rat.pictures spot on, 1000 internet points. Greek is used for the names of Meri (Mary) and Tzizos (Jesus).
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M⑨ddie
@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone ·Jul 26
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures well, i am not learning japanese anytime soon :neomouse_dizzy_confused:
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yuki - queen of the snow
@yukijoou@fedi.kemonomimi.gay ·Jul 26
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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone @hannah@posts.rat.pictures so i think the features of japanese it's trying to emulate are

  • 3 writing systems (kanji: chinese characters, used for most vocabulary words [here, capitalised latin words with transcriptions above] / hiragana: phonetic characters, mostly used for grammatical forms [here, lowercase english] / katakana: phonetic characters, mostly for loanwords from non-chinese languages [here, greek letters])
  • no spaces, since you switch writing systems regularly, the writing system switch serves as a word boundary. there are also forced spaces on commas (、<- this is a japanese comma, the character has a built in space), and periods (。).
  • furigana/ruby characters above complex kanji words to indicate their pronounciation. usually, hiragana is used there

now, this version has several issues:

  • hiragana & katakana should probably be represented as upper-&lower- case versions of the same script. they both have ~48 characters, that match up in every way. you can losslessly convert between one and the other. that is unlike kanji, that is an ideographic script, where characters represent units of meaning rather than sound. to transcribe a word from kanji to hiragana/katakana, you need a dictionary, you cannot guess it from looking at the characters
  • the no spaces rule is applied very inconsistantly in the text. there shouldn't be any line breaks at all as far as i know!
  • the transcriptions above words don't make much sense, in japanese they're used as a reading guide 90% of the time. not as a "meaning"/translation guide
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ubi
@ubi@ecoevo.social ·Jul 26
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures I have always argued that English would benefit from having Furigana to help with pronounciation.
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Marcos Dione
@mdione@en.osm.town ·Jul 26
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange is Chinese like this too? @hannah@posts.rat.pictures
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abadidea
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ·Jul 26
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@mdione@en.osm.town @hannah@posts.rat.pictures no, because the joke is that they’re writing all caps Latin to represent use of Chinese characters in Japanese. Chinese writing is just Chinese. Japanese writing is four systems in a trench coat
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