Can 解 be removed?

意味が理解できません

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Haha, I hope you never used sentences like

  • Ich futtere das Baby (I eat the baby)
  • Ich habe mich getauscht (I swapped myself)
  • Ich säuge die Wohnung (I breastfeed the apartment)

:grin:

Autocomplete for kanji works the same magic, by the way :wink:

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I used to be in high school with a girl who, on a particularly warm day, tried to express her displeasure at the ambient temperature by exclaiming “Ich bin so heiß” in a fairly busy tram.

Suffice to say that got a few funny looks from the locals :joy:

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:rofl: A French friend of mine (who studies German) likes to say „Ich bin kalt“ :grin: which is not half as dramatic though :sweat_smile:

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It’s interesting to me to hear the different reactions we have to kanji. I actually have the opposite reaction to 解 – maybe because to me the radicals 角, 刀 and 牛 combined to mean “unravel”/“undo” or “solve” remind me of the Gordian Knot story.

Alexander “solves” the impossible problem from a different 角 to “unravel” the complex knot (tied to an 牛 (ox) cart) by using his 刀 to just cut it. Sorry, I know it’s dumb, but it was a way for me to get both meanings of the kanji to stick.

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Welcome to 鰐蟹.

You might not enjoy the kanji 蟹.

And I still don’t have any idea if this thread is serious or not.

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驫, you’re on thin ice.蠢 too.

and a bunch more, of course. Those are just the first two to pop in my head.

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解せぬ。

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一緒に 解けば?

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いいえ、もう大丈夫です。皆さんの返事を読んで、緊張がほぐれてきたもの。

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Man, you’re gonna be in for a treat once you’re on level 50+ and you learn yet another complicated Kanji that looks almost the same as 3 others you’ve already learned (and forgotten) and means the same thing as 5 other Kanji that look completely different.

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If you can’t handle me at my 誤解 you don’t deserve me at my 了解.

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What do you you mean you don’t see a 刀 at an 角 to save a poor 牛 from her troubles! 解 the 牛 problems! If the 角 is wrong, the poor 牛 is already 死. Hope making this 部首分解 story more stupid has helped you 解く this situation.

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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand 解. The stroke order is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of Sengoku-era ukiyo-e artwork most of the linguistic nuances will go over a typical self-learner’s head. There’s also 解’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Fukuzawa Yukichi literature, for instance.

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Can I humbly ask you to elaborate, or provide some references?

I don’t know if I should take you seriously or if I completely missed the irony, heh

But now I am intrigued and and I want to 解く this matter!

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This guy watches Rick and Morty and Jojo.

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The guy’s gone so snobbish that he’s shot straight through obvious satire and clear into Poe’s Law territory.

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If you have too many strokes, find the nearest cardiologist or something

Also, the fugu has met its match

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You know what they say: different strokes for different folks!

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Nah, a neurologist, or perhaps an internist first.

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