Cool Japanese lesson...

[beavereater]

Here is a story you can tell your buddies next time...I was trying to think of something useful, but this is all I came up with.

Japanese language has 3 characters; Hiragana (Which is Japanese, for Japanese words) Katakana which is used to translate words that aren't in their vocabulary, like computer would be PASOCON. Anyway, the last one is Kanji (Chinese characters used by Japanese people in place of where some hiragana might go. Very useful)...ya still with me...here comes the interesting part...

When ninja's were around, female ninja's were not allowed and were known only as myth. BUT many believed they were out there. The were given the name KUNOICHI...and here is why



The first is hiragana making the sound KU, the second is katakan making the sound NO and the third is kanji making the sound ichi (as in 1). When you put these characters roughly togther, they look like almost exactly like the blue character...which is ONNA. which means female, or lady.

I thought it was interesting. Gonna sleep now...

[Conquest10]

That's pretty cool.