Thursday, September 29, 2005
Wow, I can't believe I got a 31-pointer for L1R4 for prelims XD Wait till my parents find out, they'll chop my ass halfway up. Ah well, I'm glad they're taking out the internet again. I promise I'll be studying (even though I said I would from today onwards), so friends, Romans, countrymen.. please pardon me if I may seem extra kiasu nowadays, studying and all. You are absolutely free to get pissed off, ostracize or just boycott me.For some good news, I did get a distinction for at least one of my subjects. This proves that I'm ru2 ci3 ke3 jiao1! Well, since it's Science, I'll have to give credit to Qian Nan, Aliman, Jerrold, Miss Chow <3 and anyone else who has put in an effort to try and teach me with their never-ending supply of patience and understanding that I'm as dyslexic as Farhan. (OOPS!)
Anyway, I have one rant to make before getting off.
Please lah people. If you don't have a speck of knowledge in something, don't try so hard to flaunt it, flunk it, then be the one everyone points and laughs at. Nono I don't mean anything academically here; I'm talking about a language everyone seems to love to use without even bothering to get it right.
Not that I'm an expert, but hey. At least try to comprehend basic Japanese before even trying to show off laa..
Let me give you an example. A very typical one.
(Please take the effort to enlarge the image by clicking on it to get it to full size, won't hurt by operating a few more muscles to press down that left mouse button, would it?)
Ahh, your typical Gundam fan. I won't comment on the nick he has - it's probably from a song he just randomly grabbed out. It's the back part that irks me.
Almost EVERYONE says it like "gaMbaTe".
And welcome to our first session of "Basic Japanese for Idiots like them"! (Please choose "Unicode Encoding" from your View options to view what's ahead. ^^)
Let's see what the Japanese have for Hiragana Alphabet, shall we?
K S T N H M Y R W
A あ か さ た な は ま や ら わ
I い き し ち に ひ み り ゐ
E え け せ て ね へ め れ ゑ
O お こ そ と の ほ も よ ろ を
U う く す つ ぬ ふ む ゆ る
N ん
To read it, just link the consonant with the vowel. (ie: T + E = TE [て])
In case you noticed, yes, they have vowels and the alphabet order unlike the English one (which is AEIOU and ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ). They go by (vowels), K, S, T, N, H, M, Y, R, and W. That's what I've been told, at least. That's how they go in the dictionaries. "N" or "ん" is not a vowel (duh), but since it's pronounced 'nnn' without anything else, I placed it in the vowel column.
Some words aren't pronounced like it is in the table as it seems. For example, H + U is supposed to equal to ふ which you think is pronounced as HU, but it's pronounced as "FU". Same goes for し (S + I = shi), つ (T + U = tsu), and ち (T + I = chi).
Okay, so lets get down to business.
Why is my friend's usage of Japanese wrong?
1) For "Gambate"(this is an error a LOT of people make), there's no single 'M' in the Japanese alphabet as you have seen above.. there has to be a vowel that consonant.
2) That correct word is supposed to be "ganbatte", where the double T comes from bringing a small つ, which is っ, and this gives the word written after that っ an extra letter for whatever's directly behind it. So ganbatte would be written as がんばって [ga n ba (っ) te, making it ga n ba tte] in Hiragana.
3) Last but not least.. why the excessive use of "ne"? It's irritating when everything ends with a "ne". Like Sakae sushi's advertisement.. "oishii NE" "must go NE!" Pfffft. I'll ne your nehneh.
And so ends my lesson, and my ranting of the day.
*goes off to study*
Heyyy.. I'm really studying okaaay. ._.
anyhow whacked by gloria @ 7:43 pm