#Canto I learn?

[don-dake]

On Standards, Variants & Mix-ups

標準、異體以及混亂字

Stumbled upon this picture ↑ and this interesting, albeit, rather old webpage (article's from 2007) recently, where the author touches on the topic of “Standardised” and Variant Characters and some examples of the differences between Hong Kong and Taiwan style 繁體字 (Traditional characters).

“Standardised”, put in quotes because what's considered a Standard may be subject to changes any time.

What caught my eye was the characters for 「茨」、「丸」 and 「遨」 in particular, because while I knew about the other characters and their 異體 (variants) shown here, I never noticed/knew about the slight differences between the “Standard” (標準字體) and Popular (俗寫字體) variants for 「茨」、「丸」 and 「遨」 before, (no) thanks too to the added confusion brought on by font styles sometimes!

I realise in the grand scheme of things, especially as we go farther still into this digital age (and not forgetting about changing Standards every now and then), minor discrepancies in font styles are not going to really matter. But if one feels like being pedantic; wanna be “more correct” and all that…then this is something worth taking note of! (笑)

While I'm taking notes, I only realised now too that technically, characters like 「讀」、「續」、「犢」、「竇」 and 「櫝」 should be written with a

「*𧶠」 [🇭🇰🇲🇴 juk⁶; 🀄 ㄩˋ/yǜ]

*n.b.: in case it still can't be seen clearly, the 「罒」 is actually a compressed 「四」.

phonetic component rather than a

「賣」 [🇭🇰🇲🇴 maai⁶; 🀄 ㄇㄞˋ/mài]

This revelation certainly makes it clearer now why 「讀」、「續」、「犢」、「竇」 and 「櫝」 are pronounced with an ‘ㄨ/u; ㄩ/yü’ sound!

So have I been writing 「讀」 (and all other relevant characters) “wrongly” all this while?! (囧) Depending on what “Standards” one goes by I guess, confusing computer font styles notwithstanding! (笑)

[shmoo06]

Too real

[spark-circuit]

i haven't even seen much about Canto 8 yet but you're all sounding like this on the dash and in tags lmao

[firestorm09890]

this is so fucked up I can't get over it. How does Zhao serve SO much more cunt than every other Wang we've seen. Like of course the buddhist monk had to give up personal fashion but it's like Zhao stole the ability to slay from the others. Also the two on the left both believe themselves to be very intelligent and clever while they're the two who are either possibly dead or already for sure dead

[hipsternumbertwo]

Amangela duet when?

[don-dake]

I was unaware of a Cantonese Day (July 25th) until now! And I've missed it by a day, according to my timezone!

Oh well Happy (Belated) Cantonese Day all the same! 🧧🧨

And I'm intrigued by the characters used in the image; characters for words I already know, but have never seen most of them written with these characters!

In the interest of being able to read better and expanding my knowledge, don't mind me when I list the words out here in plain text, for my own future reference.

Characters in parentheses are alternative characters for the same words, and characters I would normally choose to use if I have to write/type them out.

澩嫪 (撈攪) [🇭🇰🇲🇴 laau² gaau⁶]

䒐䒏 (𤷪𤺧) [🇭🇰🇲🇴 mang² zang²]

捩棄 [🇭🇰🇲🇴 le² he³]

輘輷 (景轟) [🇭🇰🇲🇴 ging² gwang²]

犖确 (甩咳、𪙛𠸉) [🇭🇰🇲🇴 lak¹ kak¹]

崖广 (牙煙) [🇭🇰🇲🇴 ngaa⁴ jin¹]

Happy Cantonese Day 2024

Today is 10th Anniversary of Cantonese Day.

Compared with Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese still keeps some Middle Chinese vocabulary.

Nowadays, Cantonese still influences the world as its global native speaker population is not small.

[thelesbianluthor]

Smosh vs aliens you live on forever in my heart

Thinking about what could have been for those four girls if they had not been forced to deal with those horrors..

Thinking of Tampa finally making friends and maybe finding a connection with Mary in their weirdness. Tampa learning to let go of her fears, Mary learning to let of her guilt over her parents situation, Mackenzie feeling loved and d cherished by her friends and winning her game and Tabitha becoming a gymnast and getting her well deserved medal. All the girls going to Mackenzie's games and cheering for her and going to Tabitha's competition and doing the same.

They could have been the best of friends and grown up together.

[sunshades]

Kind of a dumb thought but something just hit me: What if Heathcliff got a bit of Book!Cathy's personality? Book!Heathcliff wasn't really very violent or temperamental but *Catherine* in the books was. Do you think that's true?

I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BEFORE TOO!

i remember laughing my ass off back in part 1 when hindley talks about losing the manor to her because that was like. wait. she wasn't lying she really is heathcliff 😭... then we find out it was Literally Heathcliff who physically ran that con, but it felt purposeful to have catherine be the one behind it, even if it was with nelly and n corp.'s help. book!cathy is impulsive, gets carried off by her feelings, while game!cathy has a much cooler and more calculating demeanor, even when literally getting overwhelmed by the despair of countless lifetimes (very heathcliff!). the way she explicitly sees the marriage as a means to an end in particular to me reads as closer to book!heathcliff's own view than to her book counterpart, who is instead the coping and suppressing queen 🔥

ON the other hand those traits fit heathcliff much more, i think particularly the way the reasoning behind it- cathy's is a reflection of how hindley has raised her, used to seeing that violence, always on edge and ready to snap at the slightest provocation. that's incredibly close to game!heathcliff, where a lot of the violence seems to come specifically from being insulted or looked down upon (hi S.E.A). it's a very different brand from book!heathcliff who, while also violent, is much more calculating about when and how to use it, working in tandem with his status to force others to respect his superior role as the patriarch. we see this trait in the erlking instead, the whole system of "whoever i kill belongs to me" which is cool as fuck btw.

also (<- guy who always has to make it about how theyre gen2) it's fun because some of these traits are then shared by the gen2 characters theyre based on too- catherine's more gloomy personality, the kind of fatalistic way of talking is in line with book!heathcliff but with catherine linton as well, with both of them getting described in mythical terms as a way to insult them (heathcliff is called a vampire at various points, cathy l. is called a witch) which checks out with game!cathy being described as frightening.

on the other side heathcliff's short fuse is close to book!cathy, but also to hareton, and both of them are also very empathetic (yeah even cathy. the if she made you cry she'd keep you company (and cry as well) from the early chapters as well as the whole each of his miseries speech) in a way that heathcliff shares, but not his book self. which is also a fun thought because book-wise heathcliff seeing catherine in her daughter is very obvious, but he also absolutely sees her in hareton which is so interesting.

there's also the factor of the post canto vi identities which is really huge. the narrative focusing on that theme of an empty life really connects heathcliff back to the catherine from the book- the repression of her feelings for heathcliff, the attempt to fit into a life she admits is not right for her, the idea that just forgetting about him would allow her to be happy. all ideas that both game and book nelly strongly believes in! and the outcome is SO similar to what happens to the heathcliffs of those worlds where she doesn't exist anymore. denying those feelings never truly allows either of them to actually suppress them. he ends up much like cathy falling into her delirium- asking whether he's going to come back for her, seeing him in the shadows, knowing something is wrong and something is missing even if you can't put a name to it.

ofc then their feelings corresponding and overlapping is part of the plot and the big reveals of the canto, but when comparing them to the book selves it definitely feels like the switching around of many elements of their characters was purposeful. as the spread of the traits they share and the points where they differ was really well balanced, the outcome is a dynamic that's fresh while still being recognizable! very tasty!

[neve-gallus-girl-detective]

Young Amanda loving a little boy who played tuba, listening to Good Charlotte, journaling every day, and spending on time on tumblr.... I love her

[meganechan05]

"Let me see your face"

[localwhiskeyuncle]

I've been sitting here for the first few circles in Inferno thinking 'man, Dante is the pettiest man alive' but then the more I research medieval Italian history to better understand the text, I'm starting to realize, no, it isn't specific to Dante. Medieval Italians in general were the pettiest people alive. They were just banishing people from their cities left and right for personal feuds that morphed into political wars. Dante was not an outlier here he was a man of his time, he was just a little sillier with it.

[don-dake]

差啲唔記得今日係 「SPYLD」 日子！

一年先嚟一次，唔怪得我爲呢個日子冇記性喇！一時之間都唔清楚應該寫咩先好……忽然諗起到聽日5月8號係 「驢子之日」，就嚟一張我家驢仔 P.P.喜士定 嘅靚相吧！(笑) 相係上個禮拜影嘅，而家就有個好籍口將佢曬出嚟畀大家睇一眼喇！(笑）

睇到呢兩隻驢馬仔，我就諗到一番學咗冇幾耐嘅新成語。就係：驢年馬月。意思就係話 「等到頸都長咗，都唔會發生嘅某件事」。換言之，就係話 「唔會發生嘅事」。好喇！都諗唔到仲有咩多講，今日就到此爲止！聽日先同 P.P.喜士定慶祝 「驢子之日」 吧！(梗係係講笑㗎喇！)

新詞：驢年馬月 [🇭🇰🇲🇴 leoi⁴ nin⁴ maa⁵ jyut⁶]

[shmoo06]

"They did a study that like 98% of people actually get better from positive feedback"

[delusinalandpassionate]

Is it me or is this really a confirmation that Don pretends to be someone else

Because look what we get in the play

BUT IN FLASHBACKS

"Don" ASKS for reward. AND RED TEXT SAYS A LINE SIMILAR TO WHAT SHE HAD IN A PLAY. SHE QUOTES THAT PERSON

[hua-fei-hua]

extremely tempted to go the classical weeb route and just transcribe the honorifics as they are instead of translating them. i don't care that long-guniang is going to be that much longer than ms. long; i cannot be bothered to spend all that careful time thinking about localization

[priestperverter]

also mutuals who r learning chinese like. pls. lets chat. LETS CHAT. (girl who studies english voice) i cant believe ive forgotten my mother tongue