i’m a turtle

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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • I mean, I thought Japanese was super straightforward compared to English. I’ve been speaking English for three goddamn decades and I:

    • still occasionally flip my Rs and Ls when I’m going fast and being careless
    • have to pause a beat before saying “Canada” to make sure I don’t use the rhythm structure/emphasis pattern for “banana”
    • sometimes just get really lost when I make a complicated sentence and have to stop and try again
    • can barely remember that English speakers take pills, and not drink them (you don’t chew them, for fucks sake! Just say drink!)
    • fucking hate that OUGH has more readings than most kanji
    • realized a couple years into learning English, that English has twenty-six radicals, stacked horizontally, and they make a word, and that word may not be pronounced how the radicals suggest, and it’s best just to memorize 116,000 kanji-words (and you English speakers bitch about kanji so endlessly, not understanding the sheer absolute fucking monster you came from)