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Re:Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved (2006) by ddevault on Monday November 18, 2019 @08:11AM (#21563991)
The two written languages are, to a small degree, mutually intelligible. But it's like translating by converting a sentence to a bunch of on-topic words in no particular order which convey ideas from the original, often including a few wrong ideas that leak from anachronisms.

Example: "I went on a hike and saw a 'mountain dark fly alive thing' yesterday!" probably means an owl or something.

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Re:Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved (2006) by zhte415 on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:19AM (#21565459)
Owl is cat-head-eagle 猫头鹰(Mandarin). :)
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Re:Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved (2006) by thaumasiotes on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:16AM (#21565436)
> 'mountain dark fly alive thing'

山暗飞生物? I'd be pretty shocked at a word for an indigenous species (like "owl") that was more than two characters.

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Re:Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved (2006) by ddevault on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:41AM (#21573238)
The example was not meant to be taken literally.
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Re:Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved (2006) by StavrosK on Monday November 18, 2019 @08:15AM (#21564016)
Ah, I see, thank you.
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Re:Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved (2006) by SlowRobotAhead on Monday November 18, 2019 @10:50AM (#21565217)
It was explained to me by a Japanese literature teacher this is why Asian people so readily took to and love emojis.

Not because they’re cute but because they’re are semi-reflective of how they’re used to reading.

Edit: HN won’t let me paste emoji examples :( they were pretty good I thought.

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