1) No, your instructor is wrong. It's not because he's Chinese he knows about Chinese history. I know more Japanese history than Japanese people themselves for example. Simply because I study the country at university in more detail than they did in high school. Han refers to the area Hanzhung. The people from Hanzhung simply refered to themselves as Han. Now when the characters came via Paekche to Japan I'm sure they were referred to as "Han characters" or "the writing of the Han", but "people's writing" is simply wrong. That would be "Min2zi4". I don't know if that term actually exists or not.
2) There is no "uu" and "ee" in any transcription system. Just "u" and "e". A cursive writing style was not seen as feminine (non-cursive writing of characters is just very slow due to having to lift the brush time after time), it was specifically the hiragana, because these were used by "uneducated" women (they were uneducated because higher education was forbidden for them). However due to such works as the Genji Monogatari it gained popularity and replaced katakana and Chinese as writing in official documents. Also, the hiragana were NOT developped from JUST the radicals. When you're writing in cursive you don't just write the radical and omit the rest of the character...
3) You're wrong. The two alphabets were developped independantly. The more educated folk simply used man'yogana instead of onnade. Katakana was developed by monks to aid in the reading of kanbun (Chinese texts annotated by Japanese). The similarities you discuss such as the kana for "u" is simply because they were derived from the SAME man'yougana, this is the case for "ka" and "u" but not for "e". The syllabaries were developped from the same source, but it is completely WRONG to say that one develloped from the other or vice versa. This is a FACT.
4) The Japanese goverment held some kanji reforms themselves after WW2, where complex forms (kyuujitai) were simplified into variants (shinjitai) that were already used in handwriting.
As a Japanologist I can say you're completely wrong about some points.
1) Hanzi simply means Han Characters, (referring to the Han Dynasty, not the Han Chinese) 2) Hiragana was derived from cursively written man'yogana (Characters used for phonetic value, not meaning). This was used by women in the beginning, hence it was also known as Onnade ("woman's hand"). These weren't the only kana in use however, they were simply standardized by the goverment from the large pool of "hentaigana". 3) Katakana are taken from graphemes (small building blocks) from characters. These are NOT cursive. These were originally developped by monks (early Heian) to hint at the pronunciation of characters. 4) Japanese characters are not the same as the traditional Chinese characters. I also study Literary Chinese which uses traditional characters, and there are quite a few differences between characters. There are differences in stroke order, stroke count, radicals, etc... A simple example is the character for "study" (xue2, gaku, mana, bu). The Japanese use the simplified variant of it, not the traditional one.
If you can't sign up for a university class, get this book:
Genki 1 (and 2+3) by The Japan Times.
This has got to be the best book ever, we use it at the university of Ghent. Don't bother with crap like "Japanese for Busy People". Another good book is "Kanji&Kana" (or the other way around), it's a dictionary where you can look up kanji by readings, radical and stroke count. I use it every day.
More concrete, start learning the kana right now. Do not bother with romaji.
If I said "I had a working model" that means I would no longer own it. But the warp drive is still my property even though it's not in my inventory.
Sorry, English isn't my native language.
Maybe. The words "OSS leach" sound a bit harsh, but in a way I guess you can say that. Their whole infrastructure runs on linux, but we get none of their cool apps.
We should really slap google (by means of some sort of "internetworked slapping device") for not supporting desktop linux... Gtalk, gvideo store, their desktop search appliance,... No linux versions for any of these!
"I'd thank you for your offer of employment at Microsoft, except that it indicates that either you or your research team (or both) couldn't get a clue if it were pounded into you with baseball bats. What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds?"
Right, because we all know ESR is on the same level with those two guys because he's responsible for uh... What exactly did he do?
Slashdot Mirror
So I guess these guys just made China obsolete?
Which one do you recommend? I'm stuck with Skynet/Belgacom's 12gb/month and 5 euro volume packs (5gb) to avoid smallband... Help a fellow Belgian out!
Anyone else experience window redraw problems with the latest compiz?
Windows won't redraw (no text as you are typing, no scrolling, no menu's) until I drag them or toggle their level of transparency.
Using an nVidia 7600GS here.
Emacs! Errrh, I mean Vim. Wait...
Ed?
Are there any working implementations of AMD's IOMMU (not GART)? Can I buy one right now?
It's BELGIAN research, by the Catholic University of Leuven.
Forgive me asking, but how did you survive 90% burning? I thought there was no chance that you would survive the massive infection?
1) No, your instructor is wrong. It's not because he's Chinese he knows about Chinese history. I know more Japanese history than Japanese people themselves for example. Simply because I study the country at university in more detail than they did in high school. Han refers to the area Hanzhung. The people from Hanzhung simply refered to themselves as Han. Now when the characters came via Paekche to Japan I'm sure they were referred to as "Han characters" or "the writing of the Han", but "people's writing" is simply wrong. That would be "Min2zi4". I don't know if that term actually exists or not.
2) There is no "uu" and "ee" in any transcription system. Just "u" and "e". A cursive writing style was not seen as feminine (non-cursive writing of characters is just very slow due to having to lift the brush time after time), it was specifically the hiragana, because these were used by "uneducated" women (they were uneducated because higher education was forbidden for them). However due to such works as the Genji Monogatari it gained popularity and replaced katakana and Chinese as writing in official documents. Also, the hiragana were NOT developped from JUST the radicals. When you're writing in cursive you don't just write the radical and omit the rest of the character...
3) You're wrong. The two alphabets were developped independantly. The more educated folk simply used man'yogana instead of onnade. Katakana was developed by monks to aid in the reading of kanbun (Chinese texts annotated by Japanese). The similarities you discuss such as the kana for "u" is simply because they were derived from the SAME man'yougana, this is the case for "ka" and "u" but not for "e". The syllabaries were developped from the same source, but it is completely WRONG to say that one develloped from the other or vice versa. This is a FACT.
4) The Japanese goverment held some kanji reforms themselves after WW2, where complex forms (kyuujitai) were simplified into variants (shinjitai) that were already used in handwriting.
As a Japanologist I can say you're completely wrong about some points.
1) Hanzi simply means Han Characters, (referring to the Han Dynasty, not the Han Chinese)
2) Hiragana was derived from cursively written man'yogana (Characters used for phonetic value, not meaning). This was used by women in the beginning, hence it was also known as Onnade ("woman's hand"). These weren't the only kana in use however, they were simply standardized by the goverment from the large pool of "hentaigana".
3) Katakana are taken from graphemes (small building blocks) from characters. These are NOT cursive. These were originally developped by monks (early Heian) to hint at the pronunciation of characters.
4) Japanese characters are not the same as the traditional Chinese characters. I also study Literary Chinese which uses traditional characters, and there are quite a few differences between characters. There are differences in stroke order, stroke count, radicals, etc... A simple example is the character for "study" (xue2, gaku, mana, bu). The Japanese use the simplified variant of it, not the traditional one.
That's "romaji".
If you can't sign up for a university class, get this book:
Genki 1 (and 2+3) by The Japan Times.
This has got to be the best book ever, we use it at the university of Ghent. Don't bother with crap like "Japanese for Busy People". Another good book is "Kanji&Kana" (or the other way around), it's a dictionary where you can look up kanji by readings, radical and stroke count. I use it every day.
More concrete, start learning the kana right now. Do not bother with romaji.
Ganbatte!
If I said "I had a working model" that means I would no longer own it. But the warp drive is still my property even though it's not in my inventory. Sorry, English isn't my native language.
I have a working model, but unfortunately it's stranded a couple of galaxies away. I can give you directions though, would that suffice?
That's funny, my fish are way smaller than that. Good at swimming upstream too.
Please sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/SGTA/petition.html.
It only takes a minute of your time and it's definately worth a shot to try and persuade the people who decided to cancel it.
I didn't RTFA. I'll do it tomorrow when Taco dupes it.
Gvideo on linux works fine for regular free video's, but you can't even buy the non-free video's.
Maybe. The words "OSS leach" sound a bit harsh, but in a way I guess you can say that. Their whole infrastructure runs on linux, but we get none of their cool apps.
We should really slap google (by means of some sort of "internetworked slapping device") for not supporting desktop linux... Gtalk, gvideo store, their desktop search appliance, ... No linux versions for any of these!
Very disappointing if you ask me.
I'm seeing fields for quantities, expiration dates, descriptions, ... With a little more work and GooglePay integration this will be the GoogleBay.
Can I have your phone number?
Please let this mean that blogs are now excluded from the main google search?? Why can't they add an extra tab (sites, images, news, blogs)?
"I'd thank you for your offer of employment at Microsoft, except that it indicates that either you or your research team (or both) couldn't get a clue if it were pounded into you with baseball bats. What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds?"
Right, because we all know ESR is on the same level with those two guys because he's responsible for uh... What exactly did he do?
Obligatory "Everboby loves Eric Raymond": http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them- the-code
Now I can just retire and keep selling kidneys on eBay!
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