That's not so bad, this is of a restaurant a few blocks away from my apartment: err.... I can't find my ipod cable to upload my pictures. I'll just explain it. There was a paper that said in giant capital letters "NOT TACHE" on some electrical wires.
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My god, Tens! Did you know that children of an age between six and ten have heightened interest in feces, even dreaming about it? It's important in some way but i really wouldn't know how or why, bah! ...
Freud can explain that. He'd be wrong, but he could explain it.
QUOTE(Pseudoshy @ Oct 28 2011, 00:23)
"NOT TACHE"
I can't even figure out what that's supposed to be.
Freud can explain that. He'd be wrong, but he could explain it. I can't even figure out what that's supposed to be.
1) Actually, Freud would say that is normal of 1-3 year olds. By 6 they are already finishing the phallic stage and going into latency. I didn't wanna say anything when he first posted it but since the error has been brought up again, I thought I would clarify. For reference, google Freud's stages of psychosexual development.
2) Don't touch, is what they were trying to say. As a Mexican born and raised I didn't actually fully adapt to the English language until very late high school. I still had problems with pronunciation and with bad pronunciation, an illiterate Mexican would try to spell this as it sounds to them.
1) Actually, Freud would say that is normal of 1-3 year olds. By 6 they are already finishing the phallic stage and going into latency. I didn't wanna say anything when he first posted it but since the error has been brought up again, I thought I would clarify. For reference, google Freud's stages of psychosexual development.
2) Don't touch, is what they were trying to say. As a Mexican born and raised I didn't actually fully adapt to the English language until very late high school. I still had problems with pronunciation and with bad pronunciation, an illiterate Mexican would try to spell this as it sounds to them.
1- Ah yeah, I vaguely remember learning something like that in Intro to Psych. I'll confess, despite his influence on modern psychology, I don't put enough stock in his body of work to bother learning/recalling it.
2- I won't fault someone for trying to spell a word how it sounds. That's one thing English does worse than Spanish. The only trouble is our separate cultures grow up pronouncing letters differently. Example: English-speaking children learning to spell don't get their Bs and Vs mixed up, but I've seen that's sort of common with Spanish.
1- Ah yeah, I vaguely remember learning something like that in Intro to Psych. I'll confess, despite his influence on modern psychology, I don't put enough stock in his body of work to bother learning/recalling it.
2- I won't fault someone for trying to spell a word how it sounds. That's one thing English does worse than Spanish. The only trouble is our separate cultures grow up pronouncing letters differently. Example: English-speaking children learning to spell don't get their Bs and Vs mixed up, but I've seen that's sort of common with Spanish.
(IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) you just reminded me, up until my senior year I kept saying the English 'v' as 'b' so I would say words like 'bideo' and 'bery' instead of video and very. It took physical and mental work to make my mouth pronounce that correctly. I also had to work really hard at saying the word 'refrigerator' and 'stomachache'. It sounded like I was saying 'stomach cake'. And yeah, the only time I have ever heard of Freud was in like psych 101, and yet he seems to be what everyone else thinks of when they think of psychology. I think its thanks to this false image that people think psychologists are psychics or something. Freud gave the illusion that he could read into your life with just a few words but the truth is real psychology takes intimate knowledge and tons of exposed contact to provide any useful form of therapy.
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Given it's so complicated, I'm curious if it'll die out.
No really, this is honest curiosity. Do you have any idea on how long you think it's going to survive?
Ed: Any by dieing out I mean losing to simpler languages e.g. english.
It might. The problem with Japanese in general is that it has many words, with different meanings, that sound exactly the same. The difference is only in how it's written. For example 'kouen' usually means 'park' in everyday conversation, but it has 17 other meanings, prevalent mostly in various technical fields. It needs kanji to be precise, as spoken language by itself, out of context, can't be.
It might. The problem with Japanese in general is that it has many words, with different meanings, that sound exactly the same. The difference is only in how it's written. For example 'kouen' usually means 'park' in everyday conversation, but it has 17 other meanings, prevalent mostly in various technical fields. It needs kanji to be precise, as spoken language by itself, out of context, can't be.
That must be why in some subbed animes I see "*editors note: this (kanji symbol) can mean this, or this, or this, and it was a play on words on this so it really means this and this" occasionally pop up throughout the series. Notably Lucky Star. That show had lots of editors notes.
Sometimes the creators are doing that intentionally too... double meanings are nothing special in spoken Japanese, try triple or quadruple (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
2- I won't fault someone for trying to spell a word how it sounds. That's one thing English does worse than Spanish. The only trouble is our separate cultures grow up pronouncing letters differently. Example: English-speaking children learning to spell don't get their Bs and Vs mixed up, but I've seen that's sort of common with Spanish.
Something interesting I've noticed about myself is that I easily get annoyed, pissed off or butthurt when... I gotta go pee. Normally I am a person with nerves of steel, however if I need to take a leak, I don't need much (a person or a fly annoying me a bit, or losing in a game is enough) to start raeging inside. Usually when I go to the toilet then, I become relaxed again like nothing happened. Funny.
What was the last thing you thought?, general edition
Oct 27 2011, 23:24
