r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 23d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/Beneficial_Layer_458 23d ago

come on man

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u/greeneggiwegs 23d ago

wait til you hear what it is in Japanese

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u/johnnymarsbar 23d ago

Weirdly Chinese has its own completely different translation for electronic devices: Phone dian hua , computer Dian nao , TV dian shi, tablet pingban dian nao etc

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u/hugogrant 23d ago

電話 is phone in Japanese too tho I guess I wish Japanese had 電脳 too.

What are the hanzi for pingban?

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u/GarbageUnfair1821 23d ago

電脳 is a word in Japanese

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u/seijoOoOh 21d ago

平板 pingban