It has similar word order. (Even where it’s different, like prepositions, it’s still comprehensible) Other than that, the grammar is mostly based on particles, which correspond to almost nothing in English.

And yeah, I’ve heard that about Cantonese from Mandarin speakers.

You mean proper Beijer putongrhuar?

Most of the populace writes characters on their phones, which is easy to read.  Get with the times, grandpa.  

Yeah, the thing about all those easy-to-understand, almost-completely-regular verb endings is that you can mix and match them, and chain them together, more or less without limit. I start to lose comprehension when a sentence has more than 3 clauses, and keigo is all about chaining as many verb endings and archaic cons…

This is the same ranking system the military uses. And it is, to some degree, bullshit. It doesn’t take 2200 hours for these languages. It takes that many hours if you’re studying them as a full-time job, which is what they do at the Defense Language Institute, and I presume what the state department is doing, too.

Chinese makes up for tones with word order which is sufficiently similar to English that you can go in with just a little vocabulary and understand basic sentences. Where grammar does differ from English, it’s still simpler and more flexible than Japanese.  

Some people find the combination of three writing systems…

rules of capitalism

Other games had better textures at the same time.  You don’t have to work in the industry to notice these things.  

4k textures doesn’t mean it’s for 4k TVs. That refers to the pixel dimensions of the textures. While it’s going to be more obvious on a 4k TV, you can tell the difference at lower resolutions than that. Those texture files are getting cut up and stretched out over a bunch of shapes. You maybe seeing tiny little pieces…

Because console game prices sometimes start higher, and usually stay high longer.

BADLY ported.

How do you propose to do it?

That’s senator Roy to you, peasant.

What is the thing that you most can’t the least?

Continuous shifting of rhetorical focus.

Every traffic circle I’ve ever walked through had the crosswalks right at the ends of the road, or no crosswalks at all. That is the most terrifying road-crossing experience there is short of a busy highway or Crossy Road.

Young Goku: What are S-cells?

There are big cities in the US where cars aren’t non-viable. The US fucking invented them.

In China, I saw a guy on a bicycle carrying, IIRC, a baby stroller on the handlebars.  On the cargo rack a woman was sitting sidesaddle.  She was carrying a baby in her arms, and changing the diaper as they were riding.  

It’s almost as if a parody deconstruction of anime and superheroes might delve into the non-hero aspects of those media, too.

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