Proper spelling - is it that important?

Let's try a different example; if someone gave you a Japanese name, would you be able to reconstruct it? Heck, if someone gave it to you in kanji form, would you be able to deduce the pronunciation?

I've learnt Chinese all my life and honestly speaking, radicals don't do much to help pronunciation.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Dhsu

By the way, I don't remember the last time I've listened to an anime track (not including bad YouTube music videos).

Um, you didn't need to get defensive there.





...weeaboo.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

"Weeaboo" doesn't really bother me (I'm Asian, I live in Asia, I can damn well enjoy Asian entertainment without having to feel guilty about it), but still, considering that we can enjoy Disney movies, American cartoons and pop music without getting called names, you have to wonder why Westerners are derided for enjoying anime and J-pop/K-pop/whatever-pop.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Ridan Krad

Granted, the system isn't perfect, and this only helps with guessing the on-yomi (Chinese reading) of the kanji, but I have heard that after learning a certain number of kanji, it does become possible to guess at meanings and pronunciation.

Meaning, probably. Pronunciation, not recommended. Chinese students are actually reprimanded if they try that. There's so many exceptions, you can't ever do it reliably.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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No seriously, cut that shit out. It's bad enough when people get into an internet fight about weeabooism, we don't need more of that sort of faggotry. And you've been trolling Animespot since forever.

I was speaking idiomatically.

What the fuck? The people who are doing that are the ones posting according to conversation flow. Or did you just glance over the lover's spat between Scarlet and Dhsu and assume that everyone is talking about lol animu?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

The thread title does not specifically mention English, and while this is a predominantly English speaking board, it does not necessarily preclude other languages from being discussed as long as the discussion itself is in English. As for whether it's disrupting the "main topic", that's for moderators to decide.

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