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Also, I heard that just like we can do the rEtArDeD sPonGeBoB cAsE, Japanese people can write a word by alternating hiragana and katakana and it will have the same effect.

never stop doing these. always interesting.

“Should I write this in kanji?” sounds like the Japanese equivalent of “should I put a period at the end of my sentence?” when it comes to managing your tone through a text

Very interesting! Thanks for the video 🙂

本気（マジ）でおもしろかった(^_-), like i absolutely love the freedom japanese script can give to express oneself, as a long term japanese learner, i absolutely love kanji (and ateji like 夜露死苦 lol), but for me using 流石 or 有難う御座います is a bit too much ^^ do you have any info on using 旧字体 as a stylistic choice? like i love using 藝 instead of 芸.. I also find that hiragana evoke something cuter/childlike, whereas kanji can be interpreted as something rather cold and professional.

This is fascinating. So cool

This really fucks me up. I used to think katakana was used exclusively for loan words, but now that I can read gana, it just feels like katakana is used seemingly at random.

LOL

I would never judge your Japanese pronunciation - it's far better than mine. I will, however, judge you mercilessly for not pronouncing ASCII "ask-ee"

I’m psyched the algorithm gave me this, because it tickled my brain in all the best ways. Instant follow

i see katakana sometimes used to ease reading on hiragana clusters for example ○○にハマって instead of the ambiguous にはまって

Japanese Nationalists identifying with Kanji is peak irony 💀

Lol it opens up with a segment from the onion and people still fell for it?

As a death metal musican I can confirm we usualy like when things are complicated/mysterious/difficult. My band even has archaic kajni spelling in it's name.

From now on instead of stale bread i'm gonna say "kanji bread"

Please sir, just a crumb of explanation for an idiot like me?

I learned a thing! I had no idea that kanji-substitution was a practice. I knew that various kanji can be read in multiple pronunciations given their context, but didn't know people have been using homonyms to change the overall "feel" to a word. That example given for "tofu" was superb!

I knew the moment you said アリエル and it clicked 💀

STOPPP this is a wonderfully terrible pun

The meme with gattsu answering questions reminds me of the "Peter Griffin explains the joke" memes that popped up a couple of years ago on the western side of the internet.

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glad i finally clicked on this video - very interesting!

This is the kind of stuff that got me into wanting to learn stuff about Japan, stuff that seems really obvious and nondescript and just an every day thing but to newcomers it’s uncharted territory and something that you had to know growing up. Coming from an outsiders perspective there’s a lot you don’t know and this stuff is always so cool. When I was studying how to make my art look less “western” and more Japanese I ended up going down a rabbit hole of finding a relation to how children have a different curriculum for art growing up, the standards around it but even stuff like Calligraphy classes (something we have but for like cursive too) and how that affects your artstyle. There’s even stuff to consider like the people’s overall perception of art in media and how it’s more normal and less of a “thing for kids” a stigma that’s only really present in western media. It all was stuff I had to consider when reinventing my animation and artstyle to look more Japanese. Sociology is crazy and fun stuff lol

0:33 I think you made a wrong turn, this is RUclips 😉👍

そちら is becoming 2nd person pronoun instead of あなた. What I find interesting is, あなた was a kind of こそあど言葉(指示代名詞) like これ それ あれ どれ and now another こそあど言葉 is new pronoun.こなた そなた あなた どなた are now こちら そちら あちら どちら but あなた is そちら not あちら.

Whst does it even say here? 8:26

THIS ROBOTIC FEEL IS KATAKANA, I GUESS

this is so interesting!! thank you for the video

"If you yaru something and it's katakana, make sure it's a human and it consents" 🗣️🔥

I actually don't know much about this but I'd like to ask that having a surface knowledge on Confucianism help in taking in more context in Japanese language? I'm from a culture deeply influenced by Confucianism so there is many Japanese context clue and values that I pick up near instantly but have to be reintegrated time and time again for those who aren't familiar with it.

Incidentally, the yellow man of NanJ is the true identity of Graggle Simpson.

I like your expression "Kanji Bread". ちなみに 麺麭 と書くようですね

it's funny that japanese nationalists would love chinese characters but racists aren't known for having ideas that make sense

I’m japanese and i didn’t even know this, I’d always assumed it meant practicing in secret!

護美箱でワロタｗｗｗｗ

I don't go on tiktok so am glad you posted this here

Should have been titled "Why Do RUclipsrs Sometimes Upload Videos in the Wrong Aspect Ratio?"

This is actually really interesting, thank you! Also thank you for saying Twitter instead of x (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)

oh so its kind of like the tumblr shoelace thing

You fool, you could've made bank off of a 2 hour long video essay about this.

And there's that pre-WWII pervasive katakana usage

3:09 You know that the anime “Wonderful PreCure” title written in hiragana when it’s an English word transcripted like this: わんだふるぷりきゅあ

I don’t get it, but I look forward to the day I do. :)

So basically caps lock on steroids.

当て字 as well when using Kanji

why use the "wrong" aspect ratio?

I am just going to add one minor point, especially in regard to how personal names are written. Some people are superstitious about the number of strokes with which a name is written. They may write the name in a particular script because the strokes add up to an auspicious number, or do so when added to the rest of the name.

Something you see in manga like Bleach and One Piece is picking kanji based on meaning but then the Furigana reveals it’s all loan words! And the loan words have similar meanings. To me this is pretty cool but also in a lot of ways useful. The kanji tells people who only read Japanese what the meaning is, while the Furigana taken from languages like English (OP) or German and Spanish (Bleach) tells the reader what the name of the thing actually is.

GOKUMON(UchikubiGokumonDoukoukai) while not always metal is nice. A lot of people have probably heard 布団の中から出たくない

"This is tiktok" : he says in the youtube video. "We gotts make a short video!" : he says in the 10 and a half minute long video.