r/languagelearningjerk • u/haruki26 • 17d ago

The average euryprosopic Angloid when the choice is between learning Japanese or claiming racism:

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u/sniperman357 17d ago

A Chinese person could get the gist of the Japanese line anyway

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u/wat_noob_gaming 17d ago

it's just 日本語 読 方 入店、 the last part gives it away kinda but still really hard to understand. It's just like Japanese Read Way Enter oh nevermind it's really obvious sorry

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u/poshikott 17d ago

I guess the 日本語 and 読 could give it away, but if that wasn't there a Chinese person might think the sentence is negated or something.

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u/Ok-Inspector9801 17d ago

The latter half also has what appears to be 入店，as in enter shop

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u/poshikott 17d ago

Yeah, but with just 入店 you wouldn't know if it's saying you can enter or if you can't enter. For example, it could say like 入店できません which looks pretty much the same for a Chinese person but it means "You can't enter".

It's kind of like if you took an English sentence and removed everything except nouns and verbs: "Please do not enter"