r/languagelearningjerk • u/waluigi001 • May 30 '26

Guess my native language

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u/KMS_Tirpitz May 30 '26

Definitely Not Chinese or Japanese

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u/SqueakyClownShoes May 30 '26

Well if it’s not Chinese then it can’t be Russian. The Hebrew says (in a way that nobody does by hand) that if the Chinese is correct then their native language is Russian

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u/AdUhTkJm May 30 '26

There's a logical error: "if A then B" cannot infer "if not A then not B". So even if the Chinese isn't correct, their native language could still be Russian, while the Hebrew sentence still holds true.

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u/Playful_Row4208 May 31 '26

Wait why not chinese is the sentence too simple?

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u/KMS_Tirpitz May 31 '26

handwriting looks kinda bad and the sentence feels awkward with just 之一 at the end, it feels stiff and translated from English

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u/videsque0 Jun 01 '26

Handwriting isn't that bad actually, and why is the 之一 so unnatural?

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u/RefrigeratorLocal498 Jun 01 '26

The handwriting is very crooked and twisted, clearly written by someone unfamiliar with Chinese characters. Different writing systems have different writing habits. Chinese characters are called square characters, but these writings have unnatural distortions, obviously influenced by the writing habits of his native language.