omg
 

Japanese people have the dopest culture I have ever seen. I just found out that for hundreds of years (it has changed recently) their version of alphabetical order of their version of "letters" was a poem..

Like, we have a b c d e f g h i j k etc etc... But theirs was this:

i ro ha ni ho he to
chi ri nu ru wo
wa ka yo ta re so
tsu ne na ra mu
u wi no o ku ya ma
ke fu ko e te
a sa ki yu me mi shi
we hi mo se su

when translated it reads:

As flowers are brilliant but [inevitably] fall,
who could remain constant in our world? [No one could]
Today let us transcend the high mountain of transience,
and there will be no more shallow dreaming, no more delusions.

and that is their letter order.. lmao.. Whoever is responsible for that is ill.

Tell me you're lying so I don't spend the next month dickriding Japanese culture...

There, now you can pronounce it in English.

i was just gonna PM you about japanese yesterday lmao, cuz im learning it now cuz its dope as hell

Word.. I'm learning it now as well.



Actually that sound doesn't exist in english... It's a cross between l and r, so they use it instead of l's and r's, and when translated it can be either l or r.

i started learning japanese on the side at university. but i didnt know i had been enrolled until it was too weeks later and i was behind and couldn't keep up :( iv got the text book though so i guess i can start from there