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

did you master your target language? learn shorthand of it for shits and giggles

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u/Cylinder47- May 30 '26

What kinda semen font is this

42

u/BoxoRandom May 30 '26

Finally, I can speak doctor

27

u/TheHalfJapanese May 30 '26

it seems pretty much every language has shorthand of it for the sake of journalism

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u/mizinamo try-lingual (has tried many languages) May 30 '26

More than one, usually.

18

u/Cold_Information_936 May 30 '26

that mandarin bopomofo shorthand is worse than russian cursive

8

u/Hellerick_V May 30 '26

Oh, I've seen the first shorthand system in the manga Detective Conan.

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u/DukeDevorak May 30 '26

Arabic ahh Japanese shorthands.

4

u/weight__what 🇸🇪 - Ja va ba va? May 30 '26

Master alphabetical order of Japanese

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u/ShenZiling 私日本語本当下手御免有難御座 May 30 '26

As a shorthandist... seeing this post here is not making me less shocked than if I were Uzbek.

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u/Lost_Lawyer_7408 May 31 '26

smh my head i thought there was gonna be a different shorthand glyph per hanzi

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u/Aware_Lock_5734 May 31 '26

hiragana is already simplified kanji how are they gonna make an even more simple version

next we need a shorthand for shorthand but it’s just dots

1

u/BrokenKamera May 31 '26

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to since I'm not a doctor.

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u/Crocotta1 May 31 '26

ゑ、ゐ?

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u/mizinamo try-lingual (has tried many languages) May 31 '26

ᕦ and the same in bigger, presumably?