@diazona @conquest_of_biscuits @allanb I've only heard Japanese in HK films when they're villains.

Japanese has picked up a bunch of loan words from the mainland, but most of the Chinese languages are rather sharply different to Japanese and Korean. Not the least of which being tonality (mainland yes, Japan and Korea no). In European terms, it's like Japanese and Korean are the Hungarian and Finnish of Europe - two outlier survivors of a different language group that co-migrated, maybe at the same time.

(Not that I'm a linguist, I could have this wrong but I think this is the idea.)

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Honestly the more I see of these hencies the more I'm convinced MST3K did that on purpose. It's _so_ similar.

I like the MST3K decision better as a result

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That's how I get up in the morning

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oh dang i should've switch to https://miru.miyaku.media/ immediately, this looks epic

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@diazona @moira @conquest_of_biscuits Person who told me that was from Beijing, if that even matters. (She spoke near perfect English)

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@diazona @moira @conquest_of_biscuits I had a friend who studied Chinese and all I recall from watching him do it on Plato (computer terminals at U of I) was stroke order. A lot of time and effort goes into writing it, because I understand from other Chinese visitors that disambiguation is accomplished in conversation by writing on your hand with a pen

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@moira @conquest_of_biscuits @allanb true dat

Most of the effort I put in learning Chinese was spent on the characters (hanzi)

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@diazona @conquest_of_biscuits @allanb Nice.

I've had a... simple conversations level of Japanese? All the grammar, way too little vocabulary - but I've never had anything in any of the Chinese languages.

Plus, naturally, I remained an illiterate barbarian because kanji too hard xD

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@diazona Yes inflection, and there are a lot more hard consonants and syllables in Japanese speech, as opposed to shu and chu and chi - which slides consonants together

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@allanb Yeah it's Chinese

Possibly fun fact: the easiest way to tell the two apart, if you don't know either, might be the tonality. Chinese is tonal so it's spoken with lots of inflection (pitch variations), whereas Japanese is spoken with relatively little inflection so it sounds kind of "flat".

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If you zoom in enough you can see where it says "Made in China"

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hahaha!

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where's a sushi knife when you need it?

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"Six million light-years beyond believability"

OK this trailer is, like, the perfect essence of all of #Monsterdon condensed into two minutes

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I do not know what I just watched and I like it that way

Thanks @ryan for hosting and everybody for posting! This was a good time and I feel refreshed... or something. See you next week!

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@allanb @moira @conquest_of_biscuits Well... as far as I understand it, yes there are subtle regional variations in pronunciation, but most of them aren't of the type that would cause one word to sound like another. And in the cases where they are, it's still often viable to figure out what's intended from context, or by speaking a little more slowly. I mean, I'm certainly not claiming the writing thing doesn't happen, just that as far as I know it's not needed all that often.

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@Terencio huh I'm not even sure the good team has any ladies except for the daughter of the main general dude

(they're no fun)

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@Terencio Sure sounds about right

There was that whole thing about taking over the world too, wasn't there 😛

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@allanb @moira @conquest_of_biscuits Who knows, I suppose it could be something done more in some regions than others.

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I have almost completely lost the plot of this movie and I don't even think it matters 😀

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damn, the 80s had theme parks for _everything_

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@allanb Well clearly you picked up on something! I guess for you it was the consonants.

TBH it's been quite a while since I knew none of either language so I could be misremembering what I would have picked up on at that point 🤷

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@moira @diazona @conquest_of_biscuits Makes sense. Most of the original Euro languages got flattened into homogenous variants by Latinization, and it would make sense that similar escapees exist in E. Asia.

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rock monster there almost didn't stick that landing on the lowest stair xD

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@moira @conquest_of_biscuits @allanb I'm not an expert either but that aligns with my experience. (I've learned a basic level of both Mandarin and Japanese)

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Someone built a giant tetris board in the control room. #monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature #superinframan

@diazona I absolutely do not know a lick of either. For what little dialog there is, my slow mind sensed oddness because it visually seemed to be very Japanese but the words were not matching

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I couldn't get a good capture, but the kid's shirt says "Dating Game"

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@Terencio @allanb there are _so many_ omg

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@allanb It's chinese. It's from a Hong Kong production company.

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@allanb Probably Cantonese? But don't hold me to it. I used to be better at recognising them.

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@allanb Chinese, made in Hong Kong.

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Dumb question: is this in Chinese or Japanese? It sounds like Chinese

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Quick Inframan, find the loose thread and pull!

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@Terencio Unfortunately I think the bug is the only one with small arms

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oh dear

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@conquest_of_biscuits Get out of here with your logic 😂

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well...the thing about the brain is, they already kinda are #monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature

Inframan! Thank you for destroying the safety railings in my laboratory!

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ran out of all three inks at once? what're the odds?!

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this Great Vegetable Rebellion is way more effective than the one on Lost in Space

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I can't help but think this would be more fun if the tentacle monster were trained in kung fu

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Here we see the scene in the Ice Age monster nightclub after they all watch standup comedy

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Handshake zoom!

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And for the final encore of the year, https://miru.miyaku.media/ shortly has Super Infra-Man, the "Chinese Superman", fighting Princess Dragon Mom and her mutant army /o/ #monsterdon #WrongWalker #monstermiru