"One Song - Glory!"

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Lookie! I so can(not) draw! Once Upon a Time. So never doing this again.

Some girl in acting this morning said there was no difference between Chinese and Japanese. >_< Did not pin her to the floor and LECTURE her, although I should have.

Also, another girl in acting is named Rainy. Already don't like her mum.

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[reincineir.livejournal.com]

Some girl in acting this morning said there was no difference between Chinese and Japanese.

...there are no words. *weeps for the stupidity of humanity*

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[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

>_> Don't know how people can make this mistake. Nothing similar about language. Or culture.

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[reincineir.livejournal.com]

Well, there are linguistic and cultural similarities. Some words sound painfully similar in Japanese to how they sound in Chinese. I can't think of any examples right now, but yeah. Japanese kanji are just shoplifted Chinese characters; though I'm told word meanings are applied differently to kanji than they are to normal Chinese characters; Chinese characters each only mean one thing, where it seems one Japanese kanji can mean multiple things? But I'm really not certain on this count. Anyway, they've also taken a lot from Chinese culture. The thing with the Japanese, though, is that once they borrow from your culture, they find a way to twist it into their own culture and make it into their very own. They've a talent for assimilating other cultural idiosyncrasies into their own culture, it seems. o_O

*stops spamming your LJ now and runs away and hides under a rock*

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[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Well... like, when I was taking Japanese, it didn't seem very much at all like Chinese. As teh aunt pointed out, in Chinese, one has to get the sounds exactly right or the word means something entirely different, but she said that when she went to Japan, one could have the worst accent in the world and people still understood. And yes. I understand Japanese kanji can mean more than one thing. I know barely anything about Japanese culture apart from Ikebana, and I don't think the Chinese do that. O_o Correct me if I'm wrong. They just seem like distinctly different cultures, especially as the things the Japanese absorb they make their own.

Really, just cannot understand how such mistakes are made.

[nurikohime.livejournal.com]

^^;; You can too draw! ...At least better than I...

"Some girl in acting this morning said there was no difference between Chinese and Japanese."

Oh lord. How can people assume they're the same when there's A HUGE AMOUNT OF WATER between them?


"Also, another girl in acting is named Rainy. Already don't like her mum."

I know a girl named Raines. Bloody backstabber, she is.

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[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

So painfully not the same thing. Do not understand this!

*_*

[memise.livejournal.com]

Some girl in acting this morning said there was no difference between Chinese and Japanese.

Well, they might be right. There's no difference between America and England either, y'know?

Also, another girl in acting is named Rainy.

My brother had a classmate named Rainy, and his father's name was Fish.

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[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Ohhh yeah, riiight. And no difference between Russia and Poland. I keep forgetting. *_*

That is... not nice. Parents are not nice when they do that!

[memise.livejournal.com]

And you can so draw, because I can actually put my hand in that position and it looks like what you drew. Some people draw hands in completely random positions that make you want to say, "What in the world where they doing?" The only thing is, the fleshy flap thing between finger and thumb should have a deeper curve, and the thumb should curve slightly up and out instead of being straight. Also, the top joint of a finger usually doesn't bend more than the joint below it, so if you're to bend a finger, bend it at the lower joint and only slightly at the smaller one. Otherwise, pretties. ^_^

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[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

The hand position is real because that's how I had my hand, which I copied off of. Which is why it looks odd. My hands are completely different from anyone else in my family. Mum looked at it and said that the flap looked funny too, and I showed her mine. O_o Have never figured this out.