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Kansetsu Hashimoto 1883-1945

I found this video very interesting! Similar to how the em dash has become a sign of AI-generated text in English, in Japanese text there are common features like emojis (👉 and 👇), bullet points, and Markdown language like double asterisks **. There are also common phrases, like まず (first of all, first) and つまり (in conclusion).

Hayami Gyoshu (Japan, 1894-1935)

Juppitsusai The cats I draw aren't very cute. But I love drawing them, so I do it anyway.

This is a lie.

Often if you don't know one word, you're lost, you're done for. If I'm reading a book and I only recognize 50% of the words, then I'm not reading a book at all. There's no story playing in my head, no sensible meaning I'm able to derive from the page.

If I'm reading about a research study that concluded that eating one packet of natto a day will help me live forever, and I'm suspicious of this conclusion but am willing to believe, but the one word I don't know is the *kind* of research that was conducted (double-blind test, or survey sent via email?), then I have no ability to assess whether I trust this study or not.

Yesterday I was in the doctor's office and she diagnosed my condition, but the diagnosis was the only word I couldn't understand. All the other words I'd ever learned in my life up to that moment were of no use to me at all.

source: https://selftaughtjapanese.com/2014/03/19/research-results-homophones-in-japanese/