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Re:Studying the demise of historic civilisations by magduf on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:16PM (#19312703)
>Same with the borrowed Chinese characters in Japanese and Korean. A native Chinese speaker would have little problem reading those, although the pronounciations might be a little different

The Japanese pronunciation of Chinese characters is absolutely nothing like the Chinese pronunciation of them, and the meaning is sometimes different too. (The Kanji for "letter" (as in a piece of paper you write a letter on) means "toilet paper" in Chinese.)

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Re:Studying the demise of historic civilisations by hungryhobo on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @06:44PM (#19315282)
sure there are edge cases but at least I know it's paper, and i'd be able to figure its actually letter from context in the rest of the sentence
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Re:Studying the demise of historic civilisations by magduf on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @09:52AM (#19319283)
For many, yes, but you were still absolutely wrong about pronunciation. They're not even remotely the same, as the two languages are not in any way similar and don't share any kind of common root.
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