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Re:Character Amnesia in China on Monday October 28, 2024 @06:30AM (#41969615)
> JP's phonetics, for example, are dead simple compared to English's

I'm not so sure about that. Do you know about pitch accent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent

It's not unclear at all without the apostrophe, because in German, compound words are written without spaces. If it was indeed a bar that specialized in a drink called "Rosis", it would be spelled "Rosisbar". The space makes it immediately apparent that it's a bar operated by someone called Rosi.
Re:Language Learning with Netflix on Saturday May 06, 2023 @04:09PM (#35844945)
Do you usually use GPT4 to translate from English, or was that just for the example in your comment? Because the translated output highlights the major problem of this learning-through-AI approach: The generated output can just simply be wrong, like it is here (both the Japanese and German).