Kanji (correct spelling, btw) is the "common" language.

The others are hiragana, katakana,

These are alphabets which are all used to write the same language. Not three languages.

Hirigana is the original Japanese script.
Katakana is the more modern one with the different sounds for foreign words.
Kanji you defined above.

Kanji (correct spelling, btw) is the "common" language.

The others are hiragana, katakana,

These are alphabets which are all used to write the same language. Not three languages.

Hirigana is the original Japanese script.
Katakana is the more modern one with the different sounds for foreign words.
Kanji you defined above.

It's like, a 9 year old American speaks American English,

and so does a nuclear rocket scientist;

however, the actual LEVEL of education shows in the the choices of words used.

Sort of like me.  i used to have to think in like 4 different languages ~ well, 5, if you count the Queen's English as seperate from American English.

That's why the "perfect" word is important to me, and words have different shadings, i guess you could call it, that convey the ambience of the context the word is used in.

(Yes, i'm a dork.  Yes, i actually READ my Encyclopedic set of dictionaries.  It's important to me to be understood, i guess.)

It's important to me to be understood, i guess.

Not that important, I guess.

Well, one must keep SOME mysteriousness, eh?

I 'spose.

It's important to me to be understood, i guess.

Not that important, I guess.

If L-G had a "likes this" feature like FB has, there'd be a "Si likes this" thing on this post.

but it would be red and scrolling across the screen...

Unless you're using older FireFox ...

Kanji (correct spelling, btw) is the "common" language.

The others are hiragana, katakana,

These are alphabets which are all used to write the same language. Not three languages.

Hirigana is the original Japanese script.
Katakana is the more modern one with the different sounds for foreign words.
Kanji you defined above.

Kanji - originally a direct conversion of Chinese characters. The original writing script and language in Japan was Chinese. The Chinese and Japanese writing styles have diverged over the centuries.

Hiragana - a phonetic script that was introduced in about the 4th or 5th century. Derived from Kanji characters

Katakana - a phonetic script used for foreign words and onomatopoeia and some company names. It's also used for emphasis in some writing.

Kanji (correct spelling, btw) is the "common" language.

The others are hiragana, katakana,

These are alphabets which are all used to write the same language. Not three languages.

Hirigana is the original Japanese script.
Katakana is the more modern one with the different sounds for foreign words.
Kanji you defined above.

Kanji - originally a direct conversion of Chinese characters. The original writing script and language in Japan was Chinese. The Chinese and Japanese writing styles have diverged over the centuries.

Hiragana - a phonetic script that was introduced in about the 4th or 5th century. Derived from Kanji characters

Katakana - a phonetic script used for foreign words and onomatopoeia and some company names. It's also used for emphasis in some writing.

Thank you!  It's been SO many years...  Is everyone still so polite?  i miss Japan ~ well, the Japan i grew up in ~ SO much sometimes.  When i came back to what we called "the world" ~ USA ~ my family went to Cali, and i experienced major culture shock.  i went from the politness to the me-Me-ME-ness, and totally freaked.  i should have turned around and gone back, right then, 'cuz Americans still sort of freak me out.

I like people being nice to me.  Can you believe that most people find me to be sweet? Fools!

I like people being nice to me.  Can you believe that most people find me to be sweet? Fools!

I don't. I think you're Y-Generation to the bone. But I'm looking forward to meeting you.


F - Japanese people are still super-polite. I've been here 6 years and have no plans on living anywhere else soon. Good food, good jobs, good people = good times

Generation Y?  WE ARE THE SAME AGE STOP TRYING TO ACT MATURE.

maybe you're not - I don't know, but it'll be cool to meet and find out. But I've been working my ass off over here since I was 22 and I'm pretty sure I fit the generation-x bracket mentally.

I like people being nice to me.  Can you believe that most people find me to be sweet? Fools!

Utter.

I like people being nice to me.  Can you believe that most people find me to be sweet? Fools!

I don't. I think you're Y-Generation to the bone. But I'm looking forward to MARRYING you.   *~ FIXED!


F - Japanese people are still super-polite. I've been here 6 years and have no plans on living anywhere else soon. Good food, good jobs, good people = good times
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Oh, no shit, man.  i HATE you!!!


p.s.  If you should find yourself in need of a Big Sis, just send a one-ticket, and i'll be THERE, in a heartbeat!

Where do you live, again?  i lived around the Atsugi Navy Base ~ went to school at Camp Zama ~ we lived on the economy for a couple of years, until the dollar devaluated against the yen ~

yeah, while i lived there?  360Y to $1, and you could use 100Y coins in ANY vending machine as quarters!  It went up to 400, but just for a little while, and shortly after, dropped to the point that my family moved On Base.

On the way to Japan, ...

oh, fuck...

My peeps were SO FUCKING COOL!!!  They made SURE we got to sample life, as we pleased, and never limited my bro and me.  My flippin' FOLKS took me, and my little bro (me-20mos) to see Deep Throat.  This was in the days that, if someone 18 or older was with you?  You COULD get in!  rofl

Well, we were suitably shocked, and pretty well horned-up, and the NEXT thing that happened?  i had to save my bro from a "street vendor" of DRUGS!

Then, i went to Japan, discovered Buddah stix, O, LSD and herb.  It was ALL OVER, right then.

As soon as i saw the truth ~ it's what we GIVE that's valuable, NOT what we hoard ~

everyone, and i DO mean EVERYONE, in my family had to hate me.  That's pretty sad, but they've never forgiven me for not using what God gave me to make something.

Actually, if they'd told me WHAT to make, i probably would have been amenable.

But, alas, it turned out that what they wanted me to make was bizarre ~ to think up things, and/or to parlay my intelligence into MONEY.

My mind isn't for sale.  i share it, freely.  i don't really need money.  i could still live, if all i counted on was myself.  Well, i mean, i'd HAVE to become a vegetarian, but i'm so close to THAT, right now.


OH, yeah!  i'm blathering, again.


i'm NOT a "fit" mother, and my peeps let me know, in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS, that they would NOT allow me to raise my son,

so y'all DID catch me out, sort of, over that...  i'm no mom.  As much as i love him, as much as i could want only good for him, i gave him up to the alchies, and just prayed that it was the right thing...  He's my little brother, AND my son, 'cuz they adopted him away from me.

And now that he's like 31 years old?  i'm afraid that they convinced him that there's a good usage for me.

i talk about "they" a lot.  That's 'cuz there IS a "they."  i've met them.  i was so little (not just young, you know?  i was, well, i don't think we have a better word than vulnerable.)

Sorry, Riley.  "They" were, and ARE, human.  How can i tell?  They want human things, nothing beyond, no understanding, just THINGS.

brb ~ bathroom break

Goddamit. I was just saying to post anything you want in the FOR SALE FORUM not that you had to actually sale something. WTFJESUSINAJUMPSUIT!

JUst cuz she's my friend doesn't mean she can only post in my forum...

Sometimes you have to man up and just do stuff you don't want to do.

I like people being nice to me.  Can you believe that most people find me to be sweet? Fools!

Actually, I find you to be a narcissistic bitch.....but that kind of thing has been known to turn me on.

I like people being nice to me.  Can you believe that most people find me to be sweet? Fools!

Actually, I find you to be a narcissistic bitch.....I'm hungry.

Fixed!

I like people being nice to me.  Can you believe that most people find me to be sweet? Fools!

Actually, I find you to be a narcissistic bitch.....but that kind of thing has been known to turn me on.

This explains why you get along with Thrash then..

I like people being nice to me.  Can you believe that most people find me to be sweet? Fools!

Actually, I find you to be a narcissistic bitch.....I'm hungry.

Fixed!

That made me giggle, I'll admit.

I like people being nice to me.  Can you believe that most people find me to be sweet? Fools!

Actually, I find you to be a narcissistic bitch.....but that kind of thing has been known to turn me on.

This explains why you get along with Thrash then..

We do tend to exchange a fair amount of ^5's and w3rds.

and bodily fluids...

Well we always make an exception for you, Mosh.