And here I thought kanji compounds made no sense because they were adapted from Chinese with little regard to their meaning but apparently hanzi are just as wild.

Why does this look and sound exactly like clickbait?

Stevie Martin! 🤩

You know how people often assume someone is trolling, simply because their account is new?

Another reason would be to not have a billion dead accounts on servers.

When I first considered signing up (I think it was on Mastodon), I was told how very easy it would be to move from one instance to another so it wouldn’t matter where I sign up - so I chose the first server that caught my eye. It was also implied that I’d need exactly one login for the entire Fediverse.

In hindsight, I’m okay with this not being true but it was a disappointment. At least moving servers (while taking your history with you) should be a lot easier if we’re trying to avoid big instances becoming bigger.

“Actor would take job.”

“Just do [X]” does not compute, whether X is “yoga”, “sports”, “[specific diet]”, “the laundry”, or simply “it”. It is never simply “just”. The inability to “just” start doing a thing (especially without any immediate reward) is one of the central symptoms of ADHD and if you say “just do [X]”, you’re essentially saying “just don’t have ADHD”.

ADHD also doesn’t mean you are/were bad in school. Not by a long shot.

Specifically who?

You just need to learn to curate your feed.

Is this “crappy”? I’d assume it’s meant to indicate “next day”. In 24 hour time systems, you might see 25:00, 26:00 etc to do the same.

If you wish to ask websites to respect your privacy, you can use the “Tell websites not to sell or share my data” setting. This option is built on top of the Global Privacy Control (GPC). GPC is respected by increasing numbers of sites and enforced with legislation in some regions.

So is the difference that DNT was asking for no tracking at all while this GPC setting allows for tracking data to be created but not forwarded to third parties? That seems reasonable, not all “tracking” is malicious. Though I wonder why, if DNT isn’t respected, any other vaguely similar setting would be.

I do agree that complete sentences are even better but I don’t think it’s going to be much help to someone who’s just stopped using romaji. They need to build a repertoire of basic words and understanding of Japanese sentence structure first - これは猫です doesn’t seem more helpful than just 猫.

Also, this may be me yelling at kids to get off my lawn, but I think creating your own flashcards is preferable to premade ones for the immediate effect on your memory.

I honestly can’t imagine that approach taking you very far. Most kanji are very abstract and I’d be surprised if you wouldn’t sooner memorise 2000 of them as they are than 2000 mnemonics that are effectively more abstractions.

Just don’t try to memorise individual kanji with no context.

Bad flashcard: 日　（ニチ　ジツ　ひ　び　か） day, sun, Japan, counter for days

Good flashcards:

日　ひ　day

日記　にっき　diary, journal

日本　にほん　Japan

日曜日　にちようび Sunday

本日　ほんじつ this day/today

日焼け　ひやけ sunburn

Basically, learn words, not kanji. You’ll actually recognise words in the wild much faster this way, making the whole process more enjoyable.

Edit: oh and you should write them. Don’t just look at the card, write the kanji, over and over, while repeating the reading and meaning in your head. It really helps retention.

Huel. I’m just waiting for some random internet person doctor to tell me how exactly I’m making my already shaky health significantly worse because I’m too lazy tired for anything more than powder in water.

Also, the decades-old radiator in my flat is probably just spewing all sorts of hazardous particles and nobody will know until they do an autopsy on me.