#sentence parsing

[frank-olivier]

Fumi (Speaking Japanese Naturally)

Identifying particles, verbs, and contextual clues is crucial for parsing complex Japanese sentences. While written Japanese uses syllabaries like Hiragana, the basic rhythmic unit is the mora instead of the syllable. Properly understanding mora timing is essential for natural Japanese pronunciation and mastering aspects like poetry and pitch accent. Correct intonation and pitch accent patterns are also important for comprehension. Intonation rises after the first mora and falls with each accented mora until the end. Each word has a specific pattern of higher and lower pitch-accented moras. Incorrect pitch can completely change the meaning of some words. Therefore, in addition to word order and particles, it is important to pay attention to the characteristic patterns of high and low pitches in Japanese to achieve full understanding.

Parsing Sentences (May 2024)

Japanese Pitch Accent (April 2021)

Japanese Intonation (August 2021)

Thursday, May 23, 2024

[tritoch]

this will forever be the funniest moment in final fantasy xiv to me. you are a bright young officer of the globe-spanning evil empire. over the last few months you've watched the entire empire crumble from the edges inward after the former crown prince killed his father and seized the throne so he could redirect the state toward his own occult ends. you have witnessed unbelievable horrors. you had to kill your own family. finally, you get a chance to stand across from the man who caused all this and ask: why? what was it all for?

and he goes, uh, because i wanted to, dipshit? that's literally the only reason anyone does anything? fuck, you're stupid. if you don't believe me ask literally anyone else. or even like an alien. they'll tell you they do whatever they want for the specific reasons they made up. and like that's literally fine we're all just doing what we want for the cool made-up reasons we each picked.

then a teenager roasts him and he vanishes from history forever. you were probably the last of your countrymen to ever see or speak to him, the man who burned down everything you knew and loved for nothing at all. and like the second to last thing he ever said to you, right between imparting his existentialist philosophy and threatening to kill you, was that aliens are real. he didn't even pause, just said "go ask an alien" and went on with his speech like aliens existing was a baseline assumption everyone could agree on.

[wolfsplosion]

my new coworker, using my phone to type something: I'm gonna google this word to make sure I spelled it right [taps on my firefox browser]

me, transcending into an instant state of zenlike acceptance as I remember that the last tab I had open on firefox was definitely without a doubt 100% hardcore rpf ao3 fanfiction: okay

[cybershock24601]

Still loving the idea of Rook Ingellvar having a haunted doll collection. Everyone who comes into her room is super creeped out by the little porcelain dolls but its... fine.

At least until someone stumbles into Rook having a little tea party with them which, by the way, super weird but whatever, and then the dolls turn to look at whoever walked into Rook's room and then the situation goes from strange and concerning to horror movie shit.

Rook never had a lot of or really any friends before, especially not close ones and now she does have friends but also she's kinda in charge of them and trying to project the image of someone confident and in charge of the situation despite having no idea what she's doing so she doesn't feel comfortable confiding in them because she feels that would undermine all the work she's been putting in to seem like a competent leader. Rook also didn't want to keep bothering Varric as he's still healing up so she decided to confide in her oldest friends, a pack of possessed toys that speak in pure gibberish that only Rook can parse.

[un-pearable]

the reason i’m reading dc x rwby is unimportant i just can’t not complain about the most baffling speech bubble decisions i’ve ever seen

[heteromerous-rhyming]

dam i feel like a breaking my silence meme at this point ahahaha

but i wanted to talk a bit about the criticism leveled against criticism that any criticism of the show will affect whether or not we get a second season.

bc like. if percy jackson doesn't get renewed, i feel like the current fanbase is liable to turn on good faith criticism and blame that as the reason.

some facts, first: the show has become the 3rd most watched streaming original series. it debuted at 4th. the viewership numbers, if anything, are going up. (thank you variety for the useful article) this is due to good marketing and the decision of the producers or disney to air the show weekly, episode by episode.

from what i've seen, criticism has been in the minority of posts. criticism of the pjo show is not the thing that gets tens of thousands of likes or reblogs (keeping in mind that i'm mostly on tumblr goodbye to twitter that hellsite) this show has been widely praised, widely defended, and widely discussed.

i think, especially because this fanbase has been burned before, and because of the recent cancellations of adaptations, there's a lot of paranoia (perhaps justified) going around about cancellation in general. and i understand that. this has been a widely anticipated series, a widely beloved set of books. i would hate for this show to be cancelled.

but. but but but.

cancellation is a decision that is made by the company. and i'd urge people to not forget that. the enemy here (in regards to cancellation but also just in general) is disney, is the company. cancelling the show would be a financial and business decision. i highly highly doubt that any criticism on social media (at least in regards to the pjo show) would become big enough to become a deciding factor in this decision.

and if it were? i would still ask why you would blame good faith criticism. anyone whose "criticism" is clearly poorly veiled racism can rot in hades, by the way. but if it is good faith criticism that cancels the show, that means that there would have been enough people who were dissatisfied that people up top took notice and agreed. and if that were the case, why be mad at the people who gave that criticism? if that were the case, why not be critical of the writing or the directing of a show that people were clearly dissatisfied with? why not ask better from the show producers?

ig all this to say that i'd really really warn against advocating for censorship in the hope that it might incrementally change a decision that is ultimately not open or transparent to the public. most of the criticism that i've seen has been by fans, has been by people who would love to love the show. and if you don't want to see that, by all means block or mute or do whatever you need to do. but don't blame them. don't tell them to shut up because you are afraid.

[keepmovinjunior]

i have to remember that sometimes i need to just chill and write a wacky one liner. but like. what if i could overtly describe things and include psychological themes and nods to historical fiction?

[just-tagg]

Finally getting into origins smp exclusively for this man

[lemodoe]

Urgent: what do if. I did someyhing possibly embarrassing but it wont be embarrassing if i dint tell anyone but it might be fun if i do tell someone

wghat

[bsotted]

anyway im also getting in some really good korean practice not just listening but also reading bc people in the comments are SO funny i saw somebody say under one of the dopamine remixes (cant remember which atp i've blasted my brain with too many videos in rapid succession to recall where i read specific comments anymore) but whichever one it was. her comment was something like "wow i really like this the lyrics are great. my favorite line is the part where he says BWRAAAAAAHAAMMMMM doodoodoo doo doo-doo doodoodoo doo doo-doo. that was really good"

[kaikhou]

learning spanish as a foreign language and having the opposite distribution of understanding to my heritage language, as in the type of language i’m having the most trouble understanding is simple everyday language spoken around family. sure i can read this scientific article fairly easily but god forbid my bf’s mom asks me what i want for dinner

[rigelmejo]

UNRELATED: at 344 hours of chinese listening and I finished HP5 audiobook. (and the audiobook did NOT need to be 31 fucking hours, it had so much filler, but being optimistic I guess it made me practice listening for 31 more hours >o>)

My options now are: force myself to listen to and finish HP6 and HP7, despite being sick of these fucking audiobooks, because that's around ~60 more hours of practice listening and I am a stubborn fucker. I am stubborn and spiteful and I KNOW I'll fucking understand HP6 and HP7, so they'll be 'comprehensible input' listening material. I know I'll understand so they'll definitely cause improvement, I know I'll understand even if I only pay partial attention because I understood all of HP5 with partial attention, I might learn 1000-2000 more new words from them which will make FUTURE listening easier, and I can say I honestly tested out 'using all of the HP audiobooks to improve my listening in a language' and can compare my experiences to others who have done it.

Like this Spanish learner, and these people in the comments, including ZoomSOM "At ~550 hours right now and halfway through the fourth audiobook.  I understand 95-99% of the "story" but miss some of the details." A lot of people mention 600-1000 hours to understand HP1, but as we know HP4 is much harder than HP1 and HP5-7 are the hardest with the most unique words. I am guessing maybe 1000-1500 hours to understand HP7... but I can't find anyone listing specifically HP7. This person read all of HP by 1500 hours.

So it looks like HP5-7 seem understandable to many people learning Spanish by around 1000-1500 hours. For the early learners, 450-600 hours (but it was 450 hours for HP1). So for Chinese, (a doubled Dreaming Spanish roadmap) that would be 2000-3000 hours. And for early learners, 900-1200 hours in Chinese. I have 891 hours of Chinese listening total now (547 estimated hours of prior listening, 344 hours since starting my chinese listening experiment). So either I am REALLY good at listening to audiobooks... or I may have underestimated the hours of prior listening/hours of comprehensible input I got.

I wonder if my estimated hours of prior comprehensible input should be higher...

I also wonder if when I finish HP6 and HP7 audiobooks, I'll be as good at listening to Chinese as those people with 1500 hours of Spanish are with listening to Spanish. Not necessarily, as some people listened to HP1-7 in Spanish from hours 450-600ish, and still had to keep listening to Spanish until 1500 hours to see the progress they wanted.

I will probably... just fucking finish this audiobook series. I can't properly compare myself to other learners who listened to these, and their results, if I don't even finish doing it myself. So I suppose that's settled. -.- I'm going to 'speedrun' these fucking audiobooks, and somehow listen to them in a few days each. So I can get through them asap. Thankfully, I no longer need to re-listen to them to understand them. (A form of self torture I'm sure, making myself listen to HP1-4 two times. I sure felt like I was suffering by the time I got to HP4).

Afterward I'm gonna fucking reward myself and either listen to MoDu audiobook all the way through or ZhenHun all the way through. I'm already rewarding myself by listening to MoDu audio drama in the evening, a nice palette cleanser. (And yes, alternatively learner podcasts could be listened to but I just get SOOOOO bored of slice of life daily life podcasts, so fucking bored of learner materials so fast)

[maybenoots]

Love when a post is not meant for me. I have no idea what 6/10 of those words mean and I am going to keep scrolling. Thanks so much.

[sweetlotusprince]

【哪吒之魔童闹海】破亿海报英译：40亿

【Nezha 2】 Box Office Milestone Poster Translation: 4.0 Billion

From top to bottom:

內地影史動画片票房單日冠军 -> Animated Feature Champion Makes History in the Domestic Box Office Within a Single Day

40亿 -> 4.0 Billion

感谢81810000+观众走进影院观看 -> Our sincere thanks to the 81, 810, 000 viewers that came out to the theatres to watch our film

致谢无数灵魂共振的星火 / 撑起了向上冲破的勇气与决心 -> Our gratitude goes out to the countless fiery souls whose hearts came together / who raised their courage and determination to break through all odds

Suggestions on the translations would be appreciated as I work to improve my Chinese. I would also love to read/discuss other interpretations ☺️

Project Overview | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 》

[skitskatdacat63]

My notes app is so deranged to me because there's so many things I wrote down on a whim to make sure I remember them, usually quoting irl people or from media, and then I look at it weeks later and its like. Who said this!?!?!?! What is this even from!?!?!?!??!! What was the context??????!?!?

I'd do an ask game of posting things from my notes app but that shit is FAR too incriminating LOL

[divinekangaroo]

Can't explain how unspeakably hot Lizzie is in that specific gifset (prior reblog chain)