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[lightrobber]

The second week of studying has come and gone with mixed moments of "wtf am I studying I feel so dumb" and "...but that's so easy, why don't you people understand this? :|" and I'm loving most of my professors

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[lightrobber]

What really baffles me, though, is why they don't ask the same question about, say, European languages. I don't know if its knowing that each country has a different language or what, but I'm yet to hear somebody ask about the difference between Swedish and Norwegian, for example (Personally, I can't tell the Scandinavian languages apart, but I know that they are different and don't ask stupid questions like those.).

[awakenyourfaith]

Japanese and Chinese are Very different, especially when spoken. At times, especially with kanji and whatnot, it is hard to differentiate them, but people should do more research before they blatantly say if something's one or the other :/

[lightrobber]

What really gets to me is that they automatically assume that they're the same even without seeing the writing or even having heard them spoken when they never assume the same for, say, European languages.

[chiba_kun]

Arghhh I hate it when people mess up books! I even hate messing up my own books, but sometimes I need to. D.< Bending paperback covers so they're like permanently curved open just drives me insane, even though I realize how unreasonable that is.

I also agree with the Chinese vs. Japanese thing. We have a lot of Chinese people in this area so we don't get that a lot, except with little kids who don't know any better.

although i will admit that, even though I'm half Italian and am learning the language, I still have a tough time distinguishing it from Spanish when both are spoken really fast.

[lightrobber]

With you on the paperbacks. I usually put them at the bottom of the book stack to get them flat again.

But you don't ask on what the difference between the two is. You know that they aren't the same.
I have trouble with telling rapidly spoken Japanese apart from Korean for some reason, and I'm terrible at differentiating between the Scandinavian languages, but I don't question the difference between those, since I know that it's there.

[ragnarok_08]

Japanese and Chinese are definitely different languages, and it can be hard to differentiate.

[lightrobber]

True, but I've never heard anybody asking if French and Spanish were different. Everybody seems to know that they are. The moment we turn to Asia, everybody's speaking the same language.

[listenforlife]

about the language thing... wow, what trolls. japanese and chinese sound nothing alike.

"Oh? So what is the difference between them, really?"
uh, don't they know that japan and china are separate countries so logically, they'd have different languages? but then again, there are people who think that asia is a country, so. >(

[lightrobber]

This person lives next to Asia and knows that there's more than one country there. Yet for some reason the concept of them having different languages has somehow disappeared. -_-