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| _' ,' |, ,'| <- gain

We lost = |○○', ,| ', '_]

○= singular first person pronoun

○○ = plural first person pronoun

construction:

|○○', ,| ', '_|_' ,' |, ,'|~] <- "get laid", a combination of the following symbols:

○○ = plural first person pronoun (it's something done with at least two people}

|', ,| ', '_| = loss and | _' ,' |, ,'| = gain (involves both give and take)

Ok ok ok. I’m a huge linguistics nerd so lemme think here:

first off, we already have an indicator for past perfect verbs (ie verbs that occurred in the past and are fully completed) namely the ‘]’ indicator, ie ‘I ate’. We could make the future tense ‘[‘, ‘I will eat’

Generally, we’ve got twelve tenses in English: here’s an infographic from an ESL teaching site:

We have two of these indicators down. We can get away with putting an indicator on a noun, thereby ‘verbing’ the noun, for a lot of words, but making sure we always have a tense indicator on a verb means we don’t need to worry about words looking like nouns but being verbs. So, this might be subject to change, but how about:

The periods are there as verb markers. A period at the end of a verb without a tense marker is an infinitive (to run, to jump, etc) and the idea is that you can quickly distinguish verbs from other words by the use of a period.

so, |', ,| ', '_| -> |', ,| ', '_]. Or ‘loss’ -> ‘lost’

|', ,| ', '_|. means ‘to lose’

○|', ,| ', '_\. Means ‘I lose’ while ○|', ,| ', '_}. Means ‘I had lost’

etc etc etc

Which is true. However, if that hasn’t occurred to someone yet and this sounds like a new concept to them then they’re more likely to listen wide-eyed to this person opening this new world of possibilities to them and get coerced into buying an e-book.

It’s a myth that adults can’t learn languages as well as children.

Any method you use for study is probably fine. Even not studying is fine if you can find videos or tutors that’ll help you understand. Just get some foundations into your head.

The most important thing at any level is to listen to and read the language a lot. Even if you don’t understand all of it. Get input.

The second most important thing is to do what’s fun for you and what gets you to keep going. The correct method is the one that keeps you learning.

Focus on what’s right for your goals. People will tell you that this or that is more important and you shouldn’t waste your time on “useless” things but they’re not you. If your only goal is to watch fantasy anime in Japanese then looking up the word for dragon will probably be useful for you and you might never need to practice speaking. If you’re unexpectedly moving to Japan next week, looking up how to order at a restaurant is probably more relevant to your life.

Also here's a dumb mnemonic for the most commom onyomi readings:

By having lots of shellfish (貝), the genius (才) got wealthy by using them to make psychic (さい) xylophones (ざい)

Unsolicited information: There are LOTS of wealth-related kanji that use 貝!

貨 property/goods (+ 化 change)

貸 lend (+ 代 substitute/convert)

資 invest (+ 次 next)

貧 poverty (+ 分 divide/portion)

販 sell/marketing (+ 反 against)

買 buy (+ 目 eyes)

費 fee/expense (+ $ (not really) 弓 arrow + 八 eight)

貯 savings (+ 宁 serene)

賄 supply/finance/bribe (+有 possess)

Barista: Oh god here he comes.

Me: who?

White Ferrari Guy: What're you writing?

Me: (fuck it) I'm developing a script!

WFG: A what?

Me: A script. I'm developing an alternate script for the international phonetic alphabet. My goal is to make it one grapheme represent a single syllable, rather than one grapheme per phoneme. I'm happy with the consonants, but the vowels still need work. I'm experimenting with kerning based on Georgian script-

i'll let phie-san say it:

ゾッと: Shuddering, trembling, being horrified, being disgusted (onomatopoeia)

競争 (きょうそう): Competition, race, rivalry

通報 (つうほう): Report, notification

突然変異 (とつぜんへんい): Mutation

論者 (ろんじゃ): Debater, disputant

善悪 (ぜんあく): Good and evil

多頭飼い (たとうかい): Own multiple animals

侵害 (しんがい): Infringement, violation, invasion

言いふらす (い): To spread (a rumor), to disseminate

夜行性 (やこうせい): Nocturnal

フリする: To pretend

拝啓 (はいけい): Dear (in a letter)

蛇蝎 (だかつ): Detestation

挙句 (あげく): At the end

糜爛 (びらん): Inflammation, erosion, ulceration

逸脱 (いつだつ): Deviation

性 (さが): One's nature, custom, convention (this kanji can also mean "gender")

ひた隠す (かく): To cover up

雄蕊 (おしべ): Stamen

造花 (ぞうか): Artificial flower

果て (は): In the end

実 (み): Fruit

結ぶ (むす): To bear (fruit)

ぶるぶる: Trembling (with fear), shaking

多種多様 (たしゅたよう): Great variety of, diversity

幸あれ (さち): "Good luck!", all the best

嫉妬 (しっと): Jealousy, envy

微熱愛 (びねつあい): Little ardent love

皮膚 (ひふ): Skin

捧げる (ささ): To devote, to offer, to dedicate

悪辣 (あくらつ): Vicious, unscrupulous

猥雑 (わいざつ): Vulgar, indecent, disorderly, messy

広告 (こうこく): Advertisement

Extra notes:

Dr. Duran Duran: Reference to the main villain in the 1968 science fiction movie Barbarella.

1LDK: Apartment with one bedroom and a combined living room, dining room and kitchen

乱歩 (らんぽ): Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese mystery fiction author (1894-1965) Notes from Wikipedia: