/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Why do nn and m look similar?

>>12915148
There's probably an NHK world documentary on it somewhere.

>>12915153
Because you are inbred.

>>12915153
because they have pretty much always sounded and looked similar, and that's carried through into the modern alphabet

What I'm confused about is that there's literally a one stroke difference between the two, but they don't sound similar, nor (form what I can understand offa wikipedia) did they even come from the same kanji? Did they just end up looking the same as they were simplified over time? Usually characters looking the same implies some sort of connection between them.

Why do I and l look EXACTLY the same

Most of my students had the hardest time telling the difference between d and b, p and q. Ki and Sa don't even look similar, good luck getting into katakanas シ and ツ you dip shit.

>>12915177
Though.....I guess the same can be said of M and N after all. I was curious if there was something along the lines of U/V/W at play here

>>12915183
The first is one smug motherfucker, the second is happy to see you.

>>12915148
Kill yourself normal.

Really? They're nothing alike.

I can maybe understand asking about ﾂ and シ or ｿ　and ﾝ but having trouble with ki and sa is pathetic.

>>12915157
Why so irrelevant, anon?

>>12915237
I think he's just curious about the origin, not complaining about how confusing it is.

>>12915415
This anon gets it, I don't know where anyone got the idea from that they're confusing/I'm having trouble with them. I just found it noteworthy that the only difference between them is a single stroke.

>>12915183
I and l look -exactly- the same because this is a sans-serif font, ya dingus
Also
>>12915237
I probably would have asked about that too if I felt like it, but I didn't.

>>12915601
Dingus

>>12915177
Why do p q b d ɑ ɡ all have the same loopy thing in it? Because there are common elements that show up as things are simplified. even though their origins Π Ϙ B Δ A Γ look nothing alike.

>>12915148
they're probably based on similar kanji

or the same kanji even

kana are all based on segments of kanji you know

Why do ン and ソ look alike?

I never had issues with き and さ but め and ぬ gave me trouble when I first started learning. Is that bad?

And here I sometimes forget what is あ and what is お.
Maybe I am just a baka.

>>12915228

You guys are real retard. Kana (both hiragana and katakana) was derived from the cursive scripts of kanji. It's just a coincidence if some of them look similar. Nothing to do with sounds.

>>12917267
How the fuck do you go from using kana as cursive shorthand kanji to a totally different alphabet?

>>12917267
Katakana are derived from fragments that make up kanji, dipshit. I don't even read Japanese and I know this.

>>12917272
Your question doesn't make any sense.

>>12917273
That statement is partly true and again you have no idea what you're talking about. STFU if you can't read Japanese.

Is this what they call language otaku?

why do shit and this thread look similar? This is surprisingly hard to look into via google.

ITT: weaboos

Why are you all getting so salty?
OP just made a question because he was interested if there was any cool story behind it.