Random Linguistics Knowledge...

[ggj5]

So, for my friends interested in learning Japanese, here's some pretty useless trivia I learned from my linguistics book.. (btw, I can now say, "he is beating me" in Swahili! I hope that will never come in handy, lol

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[theatregeek_393]

...And foxes say "Con-con!" in Japanese!

Hmm, I had always heard that Japanese kitties say "Nya", but I guess it sounds kind of the same...and I totally didn't know that that's why we drop the u in words like 'desu!' Yay, now I don't feel as clueless as before.

...I'm totally going to tick like a Japanese clock during chem tomorrow.

[ggj5]

I had issues translating the word for 'meow'... they used a symbol I wasn't familiar with [IPA], and the best I could figure was that it was a rounded front vowel.... [which I guess would mean that 'nya' would not end as 'ah', but as 'aw'?]

[muted_clamour]

heart sound is doki-doki, I believe c:

[ggj5]

you know the heart sound but no idioms? :p pfffft lol

[muted_clamour]

> >;;