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Published: 2008-06-18 16:00:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 2937; Favourites: 65; Downloads: 45
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I swear by (Toph)God, everything written in the text boxes is taken STRAIGHT (word-for-word, verbatim, etc.) from my kanji instruction manual. It's supposed to explain how kanji evolved over however many thousands of years after arriving in Japan from China. A lot of them (so far) either deal with religion, death/killing, or body parts in some way, shape, or form.
I think it's funny as hell; and interesting, because a lot of the Chinese/Korean/Japanese students I talk to don't know the history behind the kanji they learned by rote from about age 3, but every once and a while, the explanation makes me go: "
WHISKEY-TANGO-FOXTROT-OSCAR?!?! "
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absolutely not - my japanese teacher wasn't. :3
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OMG!! this somehow makes me want to learn more kanji, how creepy!!!
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Do you mind if I publish some parts of this mini comic in my blog? I'll credit you. I just want to share it with my friends. ^_^
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sure, go ahead - just link the post back to my gallery!
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Eh... How about I note you the post instead? 
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hehe, i know where you're coming from - sure, that arrangement will work!
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... not as much as i should...
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me either, my brain no worky with stick scribbles that look too much alike, but nothing like the should represent. ....."this symbol (that looks like the other three arches with squiggles), means something totally different than each of the other three, and is pronounced totally different. you misprounced the word, prepare for hot needle under finger nails!" that's okay, i'll sit in the corner reading the books a bit more and pop in when the scarey needle lady is gone. she teaches the class you say? oh well, see you around.
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actually, they just flog you if you screw them up... 8D
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nope, i would retailiate flog them in return. i don't think i would've done well in the japanese school system. i would just've been beaten constantly til i snapped and whooped the teachers.
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i laughed but wasnt really surprised, i mean what can you expect from a place like japan, i mean a place with a plethora of incongrous , miscellaneus nicknacks that range from something as inspiring as sasuke, down to some of the most cruel gameshows and hidden camera pranks in the entire f*cking world and known colonies (predictable joke).
and ehh, i mean also a place where writers live of as wanking of the same stories over and over and over agayn , as you always see the same effing japanese mythology critters in every effing manga, except some that actually respect themselves (hajime no ippo like a mothafucka!!!!!!!!!1111).
conclusion, its eally disturbing but so is chinese water torture, the brassen bull, crush to death etc etc and so forth
(madre santisima se me quiere caer la santa mano despues de toda la incoherencia)
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sorry,... too much of a verbal tirade?
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I have a book (or two) full of Chinese characters and their origins and they're not even a quarter as disturbing as this o.O
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We talked a bit about Kanji in my history of design class and in my book for the class they showed the evolution of how a pictograph of a cooking pot transformed through laziness (yes, that's the best way to describe it) into the symbol for the word it meant today. It was incredibly interesting as is this. It offers a window into the world of those who came before us.
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WTF indeed.
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I shouldn't be laughing. Really, I shouldn't.
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Laaauuuuugh... the morbidity compels you!
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OMG! 
WOW. Ignorance IS bliss...
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LOL! Loved your comment! (and also quite informative...) I wish my kanji book had been that entertaining!
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it does help to have entertainment along the way...
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Oops, meant "comic"... but I suppose it could be a comment on kanji? @_@
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Lol. I knew that each character had some story behind it but I didn't know it was that morbid.
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seriously! considering the origin of all kanji were cracks read in oracle bones, i suppose I should not be surprised by the "skull = white" thing...
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I really wonder what happened in my Chinese ancestors' minds when they came up with words...
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Sweet comic. I'm doing japanese at school and it's awesome. I didn't know the meanings behind the kanji, though!
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for me, it adds some entertainment to what is otherwise a rather painful employment of brain cells.
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XD; This is really cool. I've watched you on dA all this time and never knew you spoke Japanese!
I'm going into my second year of Japanese in High School. :3
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freaky to the extreme...i wonder if it's the same for chinese...>_<
skull? looks more like a computer mouse to me...^0^
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well, seeing as the symbols originated in china, i'm sur eit applies!
(it does - only that didn't have those thousands of years ago)
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haha! i ♥ ur reactions to each text! you start out all eager to learn,then by the end you are disturbed badly..lol
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First...yes.. Toph is god. X3
Second..wow........and also disturbing.... XD Gotta love it though. :3
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All right, now I'll be disturbed for the whole weekend and it's a long weekend over here
At least I've learned something new today, and your chibi self is cute enough to disperse some of the disturbance
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Wew... this makes me nearly glad that I quit mandarin a few years back =3=
Who knows how traumatized my childhood life could've turned out to be?!
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I love this.
I remember when i learned this stuff, i laughed which made my Sensei look at me like i was mental . . .then again i probably am...
Very good job, will there be more?
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please do some more when you can??
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