• miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      15 days ago
      Mandarin corner

      men làngfèilededǎodàn

      “they wasted my guided missiles”

      thank you for coming to Mandarin corner

      • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.net
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        I really need to buckle down and memorize the most common Chinese particles, because with Japanese vocabulary + kanji I think I could at least get the gist for simple sentences. Like, from an earlier post I learned that 们 was the plural marker, so what I got was

        others waste ?? I ?? ?-bullet/projectile

        I don’t think I’d be able to guess that 导 is a simplified form of 導[1] purely by inspection in the same way I easily guessed that 费 was 費, but if I knew that 了 was the perfective aspect marker and 的 was basically の the rest becomes clear.


        1. Simplified Chinese was a scheme devised specifically to hamper the ability of weebs to achieve Chinese literacy, which…fair. ↩︎