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From the Educational Posters For Doctors challenge. See all 198 entries (closed)

(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:19, archived)
# It took ages to post this.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:20, archived)
# b3ta am bwoken
a bit
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:30, archived)
# Sorry, I just don't see it.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:20, archived)
# Squint
(Edit: 4 years in Japan helped me.)
(Edit;edit: those crazy Kanji defied belief!)
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:21, archived)
# *squints*
wa ka ri ma sen

(only joking. I understood the picture and found it fairly amusing)
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:26, archived)
#
(but bonus points for the Japanese)
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:28, archived)
# Arigato gozaimasu, watashi-no-tomo.
*EDIT*

Only got as far as Hiragana meself. Katakana may as well be a foreign language!

And as for Kanji... pfffffff
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:30, archived)
# I had to take an eye test for my driver's license
luckily, I didn't have to read that shit!

Even the Japanese realise that kanji is for the birds. They just use shapes.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:39, archived)
# Is there any possibility that the Dubious Brown Shadow can do us a picture illustrating birds making use of shapes?
Cos otherwise your theory may look a tad threadbare.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:43, archived)
# Probably not tonight
I'm a bit wasted.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:44, archived)
# So what?
I only ever come on here when I'm smashed out of my fucking face.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:57, archived)
[challenge entry] A bird making use of shapes
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:24, archived)
# You want more birds?
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:25, archived)
# I still want to learn japanese.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:44, archived)
# Ma Mi
Mu


Me Mo

Lesson 1
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:46, archived)
# And what does that mean?
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:49, archived)
# Nothing
it is a layer of their syllabary.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:22, archived)
# What? WHAT?
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:27, archived)
# It's a piece of piss.
Honest. After 2 terms, I could count up to 100.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:49, archived)
# I can say Watashi wa Mu desu, and that's about it.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:50, archived)
# You mean watashi no namae wa Winnie desu.
*claims smartarse points*
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:56, archived)
# In all the places I've seen it it's just watashi wa *blank* desu.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:58, archived)
# You've been
misinformed.

Boku no namae wa MU desu


is tha way to go.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:20, archived)
# :( How can I learn Japanese?
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:23, archived)
# Go to Japan
Or get a decent teacher who knows more than me. (and I'm pretty good.) Find an Aussie who knows all the grammar (Hah! there is very little) if all else fails, ask me for a job in Japan. I'll sort it out.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:32, archived)
# Well the grammar is (what grammar)
but don't count on it being easy.

(They have a million different words for numbers)
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:51, archived)
# I can still count up to 100 in spanish.
Uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, sies, seite, ocho, nueve, deiz, once, doce, trethe, catorthe, quince, diezisies, diesiseite, diesiocho, diezinueve, viente, viente uno...
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:57, archived)
# My spelling's gone to shit though.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:00, archived)
# Don't believe you
(joke. you don't have to count all the way)
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:02, archived)
# after that it's just like in english, except they put an "and" in the middle after thirty.
So if you know the tens going up you can count all the way.

trienta y tres, cuarenta y quatro, cinquenta y cinco...
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:04, archived)
# I recall being told
that "shi" is the formally correct word for "4", only it's not widely used cos "shi" also means "death". So they generally say "yon" instead.

More than once, I wondered whether watashi-no-sensei was just making this shit up as she went along.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:08, archived)
# But
They have counting words for flat things, cylindrical things, bottle shaped things, etc.

total nightmare.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:16, archived)
# This is why I want to learn japanese. I want in on the batshit crazy.
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:20, archived)
# See above
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:37, archived)
# Spoon!
(, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:42, archived)