Каждый получает того дьявола, которого заслуживает.
For anyone who hasn't noticed, Korean lesson notes have migrated to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
learn_Korean.
It's now getting replaced with my Chinese notes here. lol
I've decided to used simplified characters as my primary writing style since the larger portion of China uses it and it will be easier for me to learn to write. However, I do plan to learn how to read traditional as well, that way I can read both and type both. *pats her handy laptop* Don't need to know the stroke order to type Chinese... woo. So simplified for hand-written and both for reading and typing.
So, here is the fancy thing about Chinese... "Larger" words are mostly created with compound words. What that means is, two or more characters are used to make a word by describing something. So knowing just a few characters means you can form several words. However, this is also the reason people make such gibberish (and literal) translations of Chinese. One of my favorite examples of this is...
The word
learn_Korean.It's now getting replaced with my Chinese notes here. lol
I've decided to used simplified characters as my primary writing style since the larger portion of China uses it and it will be easier for me to learn to write. However, I do plan to learn how to read traditional as well, that way I can read both and type both. *pats her handy laptop* Don't need to know the stroke order to type Chinese... woo. So simplified for hand-written and both for reading and typing.
So, here is the fancy thing about Chinese... "Larger" words are mostly created with compound words. What that means is, two or more characters are used to make a word by describing something. So knowing just a few characters means you can form several words. However, this is also the reason people make such gibberish (and literal) translations of Chinese. One of my favorite examples of this is...
The word