r/linguisticshumor • u/JRGTheConlanger • Dec 23 '22

Semantics These are all different characters, right?

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u/wynntari Starter of "vowels are glottal trills" Dec 23 '22

Chinese: NOOOOOO you can't change the order of the strokes! Now your character is 100% unrecognisable even though it looks just like the computer version!

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u/PlatinumAltaria [!WARNING!] The following statement is a joke. Dec 23 '22

I don’t think anyone can actually tell; it’s just “the proper way of writing”. It’s like how English speakers would find it weird to put the alphabet in a different order, even though it’s basically random.

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u/VeritasFallens Dec 23 '22

Or if you decided to write only the letter m from right to left

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u/DTux5249 Dec 23 '22

Or if you draw the cross bar on a capital A first, before drawing the sides

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u/Figbud Dec 24 '22

ok but that seems cool

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u/DTux5249 Dec 24 '22

eh, it comes out looking weird tho; either the cross bar is too long/short or the sides are crooked

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u/dharma_curious Dec 24 '22

Fun fact, that's the best way to write the the circle A symbol used by anarchists if you want that spikey graffiti look. If you just draw the a and try to make the cross bar long on purpose, it looks too intentional. But if you do the cross bar first, it looks all random and anarchist-y.

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u/Figbud Dec 24 '22

that's why it's cool though :)