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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 10:07:11 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   Studying Chinese characters in McDonalds right now.

   Apologies for my crappy writing 🤣

   Isnt it exasperating that Chinese characters can have the same exact tone but mean different things, and isn't it annoying that it just takes one or two dots or strokes to differentiate one character from another sometimes? 🤣

   PS: If you are wondering, I am coming up with mnemonics to better help me remember the characters. I find that if I skip this step I forget the characters quite quickly.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 12:07:14 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • themushroomsound

     @themushroomsound they don't exactly mean the same haha. But it would take too long to explain - I think CharGPT explains it pretty well

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     themushroomsound (themushroomsound@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 12:07:15 JST themushroomsound

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     @liztai What about when two characters are pronounced exactly the same and have similar meanings (the kind you would store in adjacent brain-drawers 🥲)

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 12:07:30 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • That_Damn_Frank

     @That_Damn_Frank this comment is so random lol

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     That_Damn_Frank (that_damn_frank@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 12:07:31 JST That_Damn_Frank

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     @liztai

     But McDonalds is over priced, may still have listeria onions, and often tastes like crap.

     Just because Rump likes to eat crap doesn't mean you have to.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 12:49:29 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • That_Damn_Frank

     @That_Damn_Frank reply guy TM

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     That_Damn_Frank (that_damn_frank@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 12:49:30 JST That_Damn_Frank

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     @liztai
     My post does not take food from your mouth nor does it shove food into your mouth.

     It evaluates the food against it's cost.

     Random...? Whatever.

     #HorseToWater #Drink

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 22:27:01 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Jenxi Seow 萧晨熙

     @jenxi yea I have a Pleco add on that actually tells me how the character evolved, but I always seem to prefer weird stories to memorise the character lol

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     Jenxi Seow 萧晨熙 (jenxi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 22:27:02 JST Jenxi Seow 萧晨熙

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     @liztai it might help to understand how some of them evolved to the traditional Chinese forms. Simplified Chinese loses some of that.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 16:39:34 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • themushroomsound

     @themushroomsound just to make things interesting 🥴

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     themushroomsound (themushroomsound@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 16:39:35 JST themushroomsound

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     @liztai …aaaand it’s actually xiang1tong2 because of course 相 can be 1st or 4th tone with different meanings 🤣

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     themushroomsound (themushroomsound@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 16:39:36 JST themushroomsound

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     @liztai yeah, just similar enough for my brain to picture one for the other when I hear xiang4tong2 for instance 🙃