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i didn't want to bother with it after watching someone who was in that class go through their coursework :V
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because the country is called "The United States of America" and the only name that sounds good is American
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See: People are lazy in their speech patterns and this is one of the results over an extended period of time. Ninja'd by animex75, but there you have it. l3o2828 as well, though I feel it's more due to sloth than a feeling of arrogance.
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 If you can read and understand that, then you can judge me. (Oh and I can write it in Cantonese and Japanese, as well, if you would like.)  Quote:
As for Characters, they are a piece of piss once you get past that first bump of thinking they are difficult. Psychologically, our brains better equipped to memorise pictorial scripts than phonical ones. Furthermore, although writing them by hand is laborious, it is not actually difficult and takes a lot less brain-power than trying to spell things out using a phonic script. Once you have learnt about 100 characters, they begin to just stick and memorising them becomes no more difficult than memorising a picture you have seen before. Plus, knowing Chinese characters makes learning kanji really easy; well, so long as you are not a native speaker. For some reason, Kanji seems to make native speakers go insane because the meanings not exactly the same as the meaning they were taught as children. Last edited by Fat1Fared; 07-20-2013 at 05:47 PM.
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my problem with Kanji was that i didn't see any concrete reading for any of them....Death Note brought up a good example with how Light's name (raito) is written with the character for moon (getsu)
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Um, guys.
Pictures. Thanks. :)
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Chinese Characters express meaning, while Kanji expresses concepts...mangas are particularly 'creative' with this idea and therefore also particularly difficult to grasp at first. It is hard to explain without being able to write the characters, but Light's name is a nice example. In the original Chinese script, the characters representing "liang-yue" meant moon and the word moon was, therefore, created using the character for brightness and the character for moon/month (seeing as the moon controlled the passing of the months.) The reason brightness was included is because the moon was seen to be the bright light which lit up the night sky and showed the passing of time. In Japanese, the liang character was dropped completely (and is only used in names now, I believe) leaving just yue (or getsu) to mean moon; however, the concept of the moon as a bright light in the otherwise impenetrable darkness of night remained. This means that yue on its own can be used in Japanese to represent 'light'. I believe this is mostly done in a poetic sense of a light where there is otherwise just darkness. To fully appreciate Light's name, you need to read it as a whole - he is literally called 'light god of the night' or 'god who lights the night'; well, something along those lines anyway. Unfortunately, as I am sure you are already aware, these names/meanings become somewhat less dramatic once you translate them into English because English is more contextual than Japanese, which is, as I said, more conceptual. Last edited by Fat1Fared; 07-20-2013 at 06:17 PM.
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U.S.A.=United States of America. Nothing to do with imperialism, because everywhere else in The Americas were colonies. They were then independent states who the decided to unify to defend themselves from the British and other imperialist forces. Meanwhile, United States of Americans still sounds like a place Thus, Americans. Americas=North and South America, or a whole continent in some countries, usually referred to as "The Americas". Since The Americas are divided into North and South America (and sometimes Central America in English speaking countries, if we wished to refer to a collective, since cultrally North and South America are completely different, we say North Americans or South Americans, as there is hardly any situation where we would need to mention all people of The Americas as a collective group due the the massive cultural differences. If we do, we will say something along the lines of the people of The Americas. Anyways, rant over. A WILD GRIM APPEARS. 
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Mine sadly looks very plain next to the Rydia cosplayer. But, there probably was not much else I could do with that character.
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More pics, huh. Bit of Kickball @ Youmacon Cosplay Picnic from July 13th.
 SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS  SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORTS- On one hand, I'm kinda surprised how few pictures I'm in, other than the group photo that we're still waiting to get back the HQs of, but on the other, I was moving around nonstop trying be as social as possible until near the end, where I wound up manning the music for 2 hours. Since I'm not in cosplay, it's not a huge surprise. One day, that Morpheus cosplay will happen. One day.
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