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  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    english is so fucked up in terms of its phonetics that it's genuinely hardly different in practice, if vastly in form, from traditional Chinese calligraphy anyway. you're not sounding out english words as you read them, if you're a comfortable or native speaker. you're processing each word as its own unit. it's why you didn't even notice the the second word there for a second. that second "the." the one right back there. because you're brain isn't processing this one letter at a time, it's doing so one word cluster at a time, and discarding the extraneous content.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      maybe someone with more familiarity can correct me, but also aren't a lot of chinese characters essentially treated as like a syllabary anyway? like how the characters in "ni hao" are those syllables?

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        1 year ago

        mandarin speakers, in addition to distinguishing between 4 different tones, also distinguish between aspirated and non-aspirated consonants, and also has three different series of fricatives/affricates at points of articulation that range roughly between the english sounds "s/ts" and "sh/ch"; so that's a total of 6 different consonantal sounds that english speakers can't differentiate, in addition to distinguishing between P'eijing (with a puff of air, written in pinyin as Peijing) and Peijing (without that puff of air, feels soft to a native english speaker, like a "b" but not vocalized, written in pinyin as Beijing).

        in short, the english brainpan could fucking never

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese_phonology

          • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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            1 year ago

            :amerikkka: i'm just joking around, languages are obviously pretty universally complex in unique ways. i just wanted to post some mandarin fun facts and make fun of anglos.

            also, no one asked me anything?