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Remembering the Kanji for Geeks

First things first: this is more or less a recycled post from PixelBits.

A few months ago I started to study Japanese on my own.

I haven’t made much progress yet; I’m still struggling with remembering the Kanji (I use Helen Gilhooly’s “Beginner’s Japanese Script” from the “Teach Yourself”-series, and not the famous 3-volume course by James Heisig) and learning how to write them. 🙁

But then I found by accident this chart “Japanese (kanji) Lessons for Geeks” by Mona Nomura.

Two years old, but still very funny. 🙂 Can’t resist to repost it here.

Posted by kuehleborn on December 2nd, 2010 Posted in Geeks Tagged as:

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    Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.

    – David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993

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    The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
    Definitely the only way to travel.
    – Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.