This is funny bc in college I was weeaboo adjacent, went to go register for japanese so I could learn to watch anime without the subs, but I was too late in the registration window so all the classes were full. So my 18 year old puppy brain says fuck it, kanji is kanji, I signed up for Mandarin and now I’m a Maoist
I know a nutty Maoist who insists that learning the language of a given revolutionary movement makes you more inclined towards it. Then tells me “you really should learn a foreign language, comrade.” (He’s not wrong in that specific statement, I probably should, but the subtext is absolutely “if there is a known way to turn someone into a Maoist, I want to try said method on you”.)
Ahh, Maoists being sectarian. Always good for a laugh. And hey, he’s slightly less annoying than your average Trot, and he does give good hugs, so dealing with him’s generally worth it. When he’s in a less sectarian than usual mood, anyway. Most of the time if you admit to being an ML around him, he rants at you about the Sino-Soviet Split. Which I’m still mad about too, from the opposite side.
But honestly, what can you expect from a 🐼? It’d be weirder if he wasn’t a Maoist.
Yeah, it’s intentionally absurd to the point that if you see a character with this many strokes, there’s a good chance it’s this one — it’s one of the textbook examples of high stroke count 汉字 and I would love to try the noodles someday
The noodles are great. I was going to the mall in my wife’s hometown to get her engagement ring resized, cause apparently she gave me her UK size and that was different from the US size, or something, and in the didi on the way there I saw a biangbiang noodle place, and told her we had to go. Once we dropped off her ring we walked half a mile down the road just to try them, and they were very good. Huge portion at the place I went, too. I ate well beyond comfortably full but I just couldn’t finish it.
THE SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED TO ME LMFAO (except it was the advisor who suggested Chinese as a replacement until I could get into a Japanese class, but then I ended up really liking Mandarin)
This is funny bc in college I was weeaboo adjacent, went to go register for japanese so I could learn to watch anime without the subs, but I was too late in the registration window so all the classes were full. So my 18 year old puppy brain says fuck it, kanji is kanji, I signed up for Mandarin and now I’m a Maoist
It’s true, some say that just being exposed to the raw power of the character 𰻞 will cause you to immediately become a Maoist
I know a nutty Maoist who insists that learning the language of a given revolutionary movement makes you more inclined towards it. Then tells me “you really should learn a foreign language, comrade.” (He’s not wrong in that specific statement, I probably should, but the subtext is absolutely “if there is a known way to turn someone into a Maoist, I want to try said method on you”.)
Ahh, Maoists being sectarian. Always good for a laugh. And hey, he’s slightly less annoying than your average Trot, and he does give good hugs, so dealing with him’s generally worth it. When he’s in a less sectarian than usual mood, anyway. Most of the time if you admit to being an ML around him, he rants at you about the Sino-Soviet Split. Which I’m still mad about too, from the opposite side.
But honestly, what can you expect from a 🐼? It’d be weirder if he wasn’t a Maoist.
“that’s a crazy character I wonder what the simplified version is”
Goes to Google
Mfw
For the record, the simplified version is 𰻝
Yeah, it’s intentionally absurd to the point that if you see a character with this many strokes, there’s a good chance it’s this one — it’s one of the textbook examples of high stroke count 汉字 and I would love to try the noodles someday
tbh most places I’ve been to in China just list the noodles as “biangbiang”
Yeah the place I went to had a sign that just said “Biang Biang 面” outside above the door.
The noodles are great. I was going to the mall in my wife’s hometown to get her engagement ring resized, cause apparently she gave me her UK size and that was different from the US size, or something, and in the didi on the way there I saw a biangbiang noodle place, and told her we had to go. Once we dropped off her ring we walked half a mile down the road just to try them, and they were very good. Huge portion at the place I went, too. I ate well beyond comfortably full but I just couldn’t finish it.
I could cook noodles in the same time it takes to write this character
I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve seen unicode biang properly render
THE SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED TO ME LMFAO (except it was the advisor who suggested Chinese as a replacement until I could get into a Japanese class, but then I ended up really liking Mandarin)