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The western brainpan is only capable of holding like 20-30 symbols at a time
we literally had to teach you swamp dwellers to use numbers instead of tallies 🇮🇳
One which the West rejected thousands of years ago
China already had a rich literary tradition while the Germanic peoples were still in the "this foreigner is carrying leaves covered in squiggles, we'd better kill him" stage, but okay.
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.
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?
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
: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?
oh i'm fuckin dumb and didn't see you were replying to yourself. brb jumping off a bridge
one could argue that, if one was a dipshit racist that had no idea what one was talking about
One could argue that civilization in China has existed for thousands of years. Its writing system has existed for a similarly long time and there was no material reason to change as it was part of the cultural hegemony of the region. You could further argue that written language is not phrenolgy
You could further argue that written language is not phrenolgy
never underestimate the precocious capacity for the racist to turn everything into phrenology
I pray that one day Katherine evolves past a very primitive form of communication
evolution, such as "stealing writing and numbers and math and science from other cultures"
huh, you still use symbols for maths? i just write the numbers out
Insanely racist and stupid, what Chinese literature or philosophy has she ever read jfc
Japan's charming and elegant kanji vs China's inscrutable and anachronistic hanzi
Was going to make a joke about Taiwan's hanzi, but jeez learning kanji for Japanese is a lot more difficult than learning hanzi.
One could :debatebro-r: that :eu-cool: :amerikkka: continued use of an alphabet instead of :hexbear-retro: emotes is a sign that it has not :darwin: past :monke-beepboop: One which :sicko-hexbear: :bugs-no: years ago. :thinkin-lenin: One might :debatebro-l: this difference in language makes :sicko-hexbear: more flexible in poop and pee than :lmayo: can ever be
Chengyu are 4 letter idioms which often have a cultural or historical tie.
There aren't a lot of 4 letter acronyms which English speakers across all dialects and closely-related-yet-separate languages like Frisian would recognize the meaning and context. Maybe just something like RSVP. Not very flexible at all
I think a more general way to describe this phenomenon might be: the English language didn't develop any completely-natural-sounding poetic forms until very recently.
E.g. due to some combination of "inferiority complex" and "pathological obsession with tradition" (probably more of the latter), Anglos spent the Renaissance writing poetry in iambic pentameter, which was borrowed from ancient Greek, a language whose prosody has nothing in common with English prosody. Thanks to Bill Shakespeare and the Anglo education system's obsession with him, everyone reading this probably knows a couple of stock phrases in iambic pentameter, but they're not that useful in everyday conversation, are they. Part of the reason for this is they do not sound like normal English.
Ironically (or not), the earliest example of a poetic form that is exceptionally well-adapted to English might be blues lyrics. This might explain why Blues-derived (or, if you prefer, "Blues-appropriated") musical genres have had such staying power in the Anglo world, and why their lyrics often seem so quotable.
