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Postby Gandoor » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:47 pm

Jetan wrote:
Gandoor wrote:IS THAT A RICE COOKER

YES

I fucking love rice.

Except yellow rice.

That can die.
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Postby Immoren » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:47 pm

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Gandoor wrote:I don't want to make pie. D:

I just want to be able to make more than tea and instant noodles.

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I have just increased your cooking repertoire by 50%.


I nother household appliance I'd use once and then forgot to collect dust in the drawer/cabin. :P
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Postby Cerdigion » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:47 pm

Hello boys and girls.

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Postby Lordieth » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:47 pm

Lianhua wrote:
The Emerald Dawn wrote:We're slinging Mandarin about. Which is harder than Japanese.


Preach.

Lordieth wrote:
Isn't Japanese notoriously difficult?


The first two writing systems make things a lot simpler. :) Chinese can be likened to archaic/classical Japanese, which drives even us insane.


Does Japanese have different dialects or subsets?
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Postby The Emerald Dawn » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:47 pm

Gandoor wrote:
Sun Wukong wrote:
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I have just increased your cooking repertoire by 50%.

IS THAT A RICE COOKER

OH SHIT SON, best step the fuck back. Mother fuckin' RICE COOKER up in this bitch.

You can't beat the deal you get from this badass piece of modern marvelry. It cooks white rice like nothing, then without stopping, BAM. Mother fuckin' brown rice cooked like it ain't no thang.

Ladies be gettin' pregnant just walkin' past this Shaftesque cat. You ever wondered how China has almost two billion people? You that dumb? Seriously.

Rice cookers, fool.

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Postby Jetan » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:48 pm

Lordieth wrote:
Lianhua wrote:
Preach.



The first two writing systems make things a lot simpler. :) Chinese can be likened to archaic/classical Japanese, which drives even us insane.


Does Japanese have different dialects or subsets?

I'd say pretty much any language is bound to.
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Postby Lianhua (Ancient) » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:48 pm

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Lianhua wrote:
他还弄脏了我的鞋! >:(

Interesting. Google can only do half of that.


Google shits on everything. Its most recent one was YT. :(
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Postby Kvatchdom » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:49 pm

Lianhua wrote:
DesAnges wrote:Interesting. Google can only do half of that.


Google shits on everything. Its most recent one was YT. :(

I know, right? :o
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Postby Coffee Cakes » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:49 pm

Jetan wrote:
Lordieth wrote:
Does Japanese have different dialects or subsets?

I'd say pretty much any language is bound to.


Heh, nothing compared to English in the colonies. :rofl:
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Postby The Emerald Dawn » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:49 pm

Lordieth wrote:
Lianhua wrote:
Preach.



The first two writing systems make things a lot simpler. :) Chinese can be likened to archaic/classical Japanese, which drives even us insane.


Does Japanese have different dialects or subsets?

Yep.

Osaka-ben is like trying to talk to a stereotypical redneck if you only ever learned Oxford English.

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Postby Jetan » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:49 pm

Gandoor wrote:
Jetan wrote:YES

I fucking love rice.

Except yellow rice.

That can die.

Sushi rice is especially good.
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Postby Lianhua (Ancient) » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:49 pm

Lordieth wrote:
Lianhua wrote:
Preach.



The first two writing systems make things a lot simpler. :) Chinese can be likened to archaic/classical Japanese, which drives even us insane.


Does Japanese have different dialects or subsets?


It does, actually. The people of Saga down south for example have their own lingo which we Tokyo-folk can't really understand. Same goes for Akita and Hokkaido, where the Ainu live. :)
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Postby Lordieth » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:49 pm

Gandoor wrote:
Jetan wrote:YES

I fucking love rice.

Except yellow rice.

That can die.


Do you mean pilau? It's delicious :o

The real kind with saffron. Not that fake kind that's just coloured with turmeric.
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Postby Sun Wukong » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:49 pm

Lordieth wrote:
Lianhua wrote:
Preach.



The first two writing systems make things a lot simpler. :) Chinese can be likened to archaic/classical Japanese, which drives even us insane.


Does Japanese have different dialects or subsets?

Of course.

My mother speaks hick Japanese.
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Postby Kvatchdom » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:49 pm

Jetan wrote:
Gandoor wrote:I fucking love rice.

Except yellow rice.

That can die.

Sushi rice is especially good.

White rice with chicken and sauce.
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Postby DesAnges » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:49 pm

The Emerald Dawn wrote:
Lordieth wrote:
Isn't Japanese notoriously difficult?

We're slinging Mandarin about. Which is harder than Japanese.

THat might explain why Google was having problems. It thought it was Japanese.
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Postby Lordieth » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:50 pm

Lianhua wrote:
Lordieth wrote:
Does Japanese have different dialects or subsets?


It does, actually. The people of Saga down south for example have their own lingo which we Tokyo-folk can't really understand. Same goes for Akita and Hokkaido, where the Ainu live. :)


This is where my brain begins to shut down. It's like having languages within languages.
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Postby Immoren » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:50 pm

Lordieth wrote:
Lianhua wrote:
Preach.



The first two writing systems make things a lot simpler. :) Chinese can be likened to archaic/classical Japanese, which drives even us insane.


Does Japanese have different dialects or subsets?


All languages have.
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Postby Jetan » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:50 pm

Kvatchdom wrote:
Jetan wrote:Sushi rice is especially good.

White rice with chicken and sauce.
HNNG

Indeed. Too bad my school only ever serves a horrible rice-rye mix.
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Postby Kvatchdom » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:52 pm

Jetan wrote:
Kvatchdom wrote:White rice with chicken and sauce.
HNNG

Indeed. Too bad my school only ever serves a horrible rice-rye mix.

They look like small vaginas, and vaginas are icky.
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Postby The Emerald Dawn » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:52 pm

DesAnges wrote:
The Emerald Dawn wrote:We're slinging Mandarin about. Which is harder than Japanese.

THat might explain why Google was having problems. It thought it was Japanese.

Some of the characters were in a Japanese fontset. But I blame her living in Japan for that.

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Postby Lianhua (Ancient) » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:52 pm

DesAnges wrote:
The Emerald Dawn wrote:We're slinging Mandarin about. Which is harder than Japanese.

THat might explain why Google was having problems. It thought it was Japanese.


Old/High Japanese is heavily based on Chinese, if that helps. :unsure:
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Resistance is futile if less than one ohm.
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Postby Lianhua (Ancient) » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:53 pm

Lordieth wrote:
Lianhua wrote:
It does, actually. The people of Saga down south for example have their own lingo which we Tokyo-folk can't really understand. Same goes for Akita and Hokkaido, where the Ainu live. :)


This is where my brain begins to shut down. It's like having languages within languages.


Don't worry. All schools teach standard Japanese, so you'd still be understood wherever you go. :)
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Resistance is futile if less than one ohm.
Remember this, and you shall go far.
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Postby DesAnges » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:53 pm

Lianhua wrote:
DesAnges wrote:THat might explain why Google was having problems. It thought it was Japanese.


Old/High Japanese is heavily based on Chinese, if that helps. :unsure:

Yeh I got it now. Silly Google, keeping me from knowing Ethel shat in your shoes.

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Postby The Emerald Dawn » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:53 pm

Lianhua wrote:
Lordieth wrote:
This is where my brain begins to shut down. It's like having languages within languages.


Don't worry. All schools teach standard Japanese, so you'd still be understood wherever you go. :)

Don't lie to him.

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