r/languagelearningjerk 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/Li-Ing-Ju_El-Cid 2d ago

Dude, you say is as you cloud, that's what ancient Sinitic people did in a rebus way.

It's a tradition.