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Asian scripts

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FenrirIII @lemmy.world

3w ago

Asian scripts by Itchy Feet

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The script is called Devnaagari, Hindi is a language
- Most of those scripts have names that are not the labguage names. There katakana, hiragana, and kanji for Japanese, there's hangul for Korean etc.
  
  With Devnagiri, there is a one-to-many mapping of script to spoken languages, Hindi being only one of them.
  The graphic should have just listed scripts instead of spoken languages, since it is really about scripts
Doesn't Japanese have two writing systems? And one of them looks more like Chinese?
- Japan has 3 writing systems and this comic seems to be conflating Katakana and Kanji together as "stabby", leaving Hiragana as "adorable". All of them are (long ago) derived from chinese, but only the Kanji still look similar.
  I would have introduced Chinese first, and then in the Japanese panel present the stabby and adorable ones both being attacked by flying contraptions. (And a few floating around the korean one, too)
  
  Kanji is essentially the Chinese ideographic system, so probably wasn’t counted.
  
  I've wondered about this too - they must have to use Latin characters a ton too to be on the internet right? Or how does that work? I've never seen web addresses in Japanese.
classic
- First time I saw my Filipino wife crying laughing:
  How to tell Asians apart.
  Was scared shitless to show her that.
  
  I don't know if I'm legally allowed to find that funny
  
  Come, honey! Let me show the finger ricemaker trick of my people!
- His Thai impression sounds just like the Thai announcer for ONE fighting championship
Always thought Korean looked like a Swiss designer made an alphabet for extra terrestrials
- It’s really cool - it was deliberately designed with the goal of improving literacy.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
Burmese is more like human millipede.
- It's like Georgian characters sewn together
Correspondence with European scripts:
the OG Latin and block letter Cyrillic are like like katakana (sharp, stabby letters)
Greek is like hiragana (loopy, adorable letters)
the "weird" Latin we use today is like Burmese, except sideways (butts everywhere)
cursive Cyrillic is like Mongolian, except the rain is over (the knives are poking into the ground)
Devanagari has no European equivalent because Devanagari is perfect, since it's used to write Sanskrit and Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. Except of ULTRAFRENCH of course.
- Now I need to know what ULTRAFRENCH is. I know normal french, if it can be considerd "normal".
  
  Quebecois French is 50% English. English itself is 99% French. This means Quebecois French is 50%+99%=149% French, making it more French than French itself. So it's ULTRAFRENCH. It's one of the main candidates for the mother of all languages, alongside Hebrew and Sanskrit.
- runes are just crows walking in snow
this seems... wack and also why would you not have Urdu on it, or Tibetan, Tibetan script looks hella cool

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