The fingers of one hand are not enough to count the languages I've studied from texts and charts- mostly with a view to reading ability, not speaking- and in only one have I actually achieved reasonable dictionary-less literacy. That one is Japanese and it happened largely because some fourteen years ago next Wednesday I went to a Comic City sale where I bought a stack of stuff that I absolutely had to know what it meant. So, yeah- icons and postcards are baby steps now, but they have their uses. Cause I know I've come across the simplified version of 言 before but only now, after twenty minutes' frustration, do I have it firmly in my head that it's not the common form of 辵 which it so much resembles online. cf 订 and 辽, that make so much more sense to me as 訂 and 遼
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The fingers of one hand are not enough to count the languages I've studied from texts and charts- mostly with a view to reading ability, not speaking- and in only one have I actually achieved reasonable dictionary-less literacy. That one is Japanese and it happened largely because some fourteen years ago next Wednesday I went to a Comic City sale where I bought a stack of stuff that I absolutely had to know what it meant. So, yeah- icons and postcards are baby steps now, but they have their uses. Cause I know I've come across the simplified version of 言 before but only now, after twenty minutes' frustration, do I have it firmly in my head that it's not the common form of 辵 which it so much resembles online. cf 订 and 辽, that make so much more sense to me as 訂 and 遼
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Went to get my laundry last night and discovered that electrician had left his lamp hanging off a hook in the not-ceiling of the basement. Emailed…
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Everyone else's life is being so traumatic just now that I'm trying to be grateful that the only thing bothering me is that the plumber somehow got…
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Dentist appointment today, in spite of flailing through snowdrifts to get to cabs, at least got me a good half hour of conversation with the…
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Went to get my laundry last night and discovered that electrician had left his lamp hanging off a hook in the not-ceiling of the basement. Emailed…
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Everyone else's life is being so traumatic just now that I'm trying to be grateful that the only thing bothering me is that the plumber somehow got…
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Dentist appointment today, in spite of flailing through snowdrifts to get to cabs, at least got me a good half hour of conversation with the…
