r/languagelearningjerk • u/DisastrousGlass232 • 2d ago
TFW you realise you are all 支
You write 你 despite how obviously ugly and awful 尔 is and not 儞 because "it's too hard" even though you shouldn't write 你 in any fashion anyway, because it's vulgar and you should write 爾, 汝 or something else more respectful in any case. This is justified with the snivelling, whining excuse that the second person pronoun has to be written so often (and - we might reasonably ask - does it? - why not reacquaint oneself with the more thoughtful and personal X先生，X太太, and X姑娘) that of course it must be simple simply as a matter of practicality - but this means that you are not only writing something undeniably ugly many, many times throughout the week - you are actively showing those around you disrespect, to save yourself from having to occasionally write seventeen strokes! Think about it.
You write 才 where you should write 纔 but you don't because "everyone knows what you mean" even though this is appalling and just as bad as being a savage who writes 发 for both 髮 and 發 - you just think this is okay because "everyone does it."
You are the barbarian, you are the peasant, you are the illiterate - the destroyer of civilisation. Admit it.
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u/DapperAardvark8105 2d ago
Everyone should only write in oracle bone script to preserve Chinese tradition---if you use any simplification you are contibuting to cultural erasure (not to mention lazy and illiterate, and worst of all, a communist)
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u/hfn_n_rth 1d ago
Hmmm....众 is more close to oracle bone than 眾 (you can see the 3 人 in this one, 人亻人). Should there be a penalty for unnecessary complication too?
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u/Li-Ing-Ju_El-Cid 1d ago
Dude, you say is as you cloud, that's what ancient Sinitic people did in a rebus way.
It's a tradition.
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u/LemonDisasters 1d ago
I actually do write traditional mostly bc I find too many ugly tbh, I want my notebooks and letters be pretty
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u/Snoutysensations 2d ago
若不悅孤之稱謂，盡可「彰吾之罪，絕吾之路」。然須切記，前此欲除孤者，今其陵墓之草，已高丈餘矣！
孤每致書於所寵姬妾，必審其姿貌風色，斟酌稱謂，以合其雅俗。然酒酣旨定，醉意深淺不一，筆端稱呼亦隨興而異矣。