/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

So how do you type in Japanese?

Isn't there several thousand Kanji?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946223

>implying you type using kanji

[Anonymous No.]

You type the kana then Bill Gates translates it into kanji for you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946227

>Implying I understand Kanji, Hiragana, or Katakana

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946223
Those slant-eyed gooks are way ahead of us in computer shit. They don't type, they just pretend. They actually transmit their thoughts into the computer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946236

Well then, it's a moot point.

You can close this thread now.

[Anonymous No.]

you just install gentoo

[Anonymous No.]

>your face when you thought those little boxes were what Japanese was and that the Japanese were so super smart they could tell the difference between each little box

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946251

No one thought that. Are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.]

The real question is: how did they do it before computer came, with typewriters?
Did they write in kana?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946251
Get out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946242

Guess its just too difficult to differentiate and explain

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946251
>Incredibly retarded statement
>K-ON! image
Case closed

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946232
This.
You press the spacebar and it gets magically parsed into the correct kanji based on context.

For example: 「おにいちゃんだいきらい！」
becomes 「お兄ちゃん大嫌い！」

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946282
a japanese exchange student once told me, that the below version is much easier to read. was he trolling me? are kanjs so fast to differentiate?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946282
how?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946320
magic.

if you're interested algorithms like these, than study computer science.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946251
how did your face become a cute anime girl? tell me your secret.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946318
Of course he was trolling you. People who are seriously learning the language restrict themselves to romaji, actually.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946318
Take English, spell it phonetically, remove all spaces -> Japanese without kanji.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946362
いいえしねばか

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946380
死に行けぇ、バカ

[Anonymous No.]

OP you're a fucking dumbshit, I like how before even trying it, you come here and say some retarded shit like that. Fuck you, useless scumbag fuck. God i hate people.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946318
The thing is that text written entirely in hiragana (like the top example) can be a bitch to decipher since in many cases there's no way to tell where one word ends and the next one begins.

Also, consider that Japanese is absolutely filled with homonyms and you're one step closer to realizing that Kanji Are A Pretty Huge Fucking Deal.

(also fuck captcha)

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946389
thatdoesntmakeanysenseyoucaneasilytellwhereonewordstartandanotherendsifyouunderstandthelanguagesoyou
rimplicationisafallacy

If what you said was true, then why can we understand each other when we speak?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946362
>>6946389

This may well blow your feeble minds, but Japanese people are actually able to comprehend the idea of inserting spaces between words and will resort to doing so where technical circumstances mandate. Moreover, Japanese people have been known to sometimes "speak" their language, whereby they are somehow capable of articulating themselves without the use of logographs to disambiguate homonyms. No one's really sure how it works, but it's almost like cute little pictures may be more of a cultural legacy than an integral part of the Japanese language.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946409
>>6946410
good points.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946251
I fucking lold

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946409
Stress and intonation, you fool.

[Anonymous No.]

このスレ侵略されました

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946435
So, if someone is monotone, then no one can understand them? Yes, but only if your a child without a grasp of the language. Acting like you can't understand, when others easily can only highlights your stupidity. It doesn't reflect the difficulty of the subject.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946258
http://blog.gatunka.com/2009/09/30/japanese-typewriters/

Technology can do it!

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946454
If someone was truly monotonous, then yes, you would have a hard time telling the words apart and therefore understanding him.

This doesn't actually happen, of course, since stress and intonation rules are a vital part of the language and people learn it since childhood.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946490
I think you're talking about Chinese cause Japanese doesn't require intention to understand each word. They barely stress vowels and it's person to person. You're trying to make it seem like it's Mandarin where they hiss and yell, otherwise the word has a completely different meaning.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946531
I don't think you know what I'm talking about at all. Stress/intonation are, among others, devices to mark and separate the words. Many languages have specific rules on where the accent lies, but even in those that don't, a word, as a general rule, has an accent on exactly one syllable.

Say "therapist" aloud. Now, say, "the rapist". The first has only one stressed syllable, the other two. The difference is gigantic, even bigger than in actual pronounciation. This is how you're able to tell where the words are in spoken language.

If we're talking about Japanese, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946593
Umm, dude. Try pronouncing the words correctly and you won't have to use intention so people understand you. It's pronounced ther-apist, not the-rapist. Yes, they do sound similar, but only if you pronounce them incorrectly and slur your words.

http://everything2.com/title/Pitch+accent+in+the+Japanese+language

If you pronounce the word correctly and in a monotone voice, then someone with a solid grasp of Japanese will understand. It is _not_ a language that requires intonation and stress like Mandarin and other Asian languages to understand the word.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946659
...

You are fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6946670
1. You don't know what it means for a person to be monotone.
2. You seriously believe that adults, who've used a language their whole lives. Can't understand a synthesized monotone voice in their language.
3. Think Japanese is similar to Mandarin regarding rules of intonation/stress, instead of it being closer to English.

People change the pitch in their voice to denote stuff? Oh, seriously?! Obviously everyone language does smart ass, but doing-so doesn't change the actual meaning of the word in most.

"I'm going to see the-rapist today"
Normally a person would use their brain and figure it out. You, who argues semantics would probably be baffled. Like I said, adults try and understand each other, whereas, you sit around and go, "I don't understand".