Help me pick the Kanji of the Year for 1859? Please? I really need your help. This is important.
- 鰐
- 蟹
- 亀
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I’m definitely a 亀 guy. 鰐 and 蟹 are all fine and good, but ワニ and カニ somehow suffice. With 亀, however… there’s a certain air that only 亀 can convey, which カメ cannot. And what if you want to write 亀甲? You gotta bust out the kanji for that one. In short, 亀 is more useful. I’m a 亀 guy.
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I completely agree.
So wise.
what’s up with all the turtle loyalists here
We were all turtles once
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So true! Also we burn them, right? You’ve gotta show respect, pay it back a bit.
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You guys can keep the turtles. I’ve started my own litter of puppies.
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Turtle. But maybe for a different reason. 1859 was the year Charles Darwin first published his ‘On the Origin of Species’. And 2006 was the year a certain turtle named Harriet died, a turtle allegedly collected in 1830 by Charles Darwin on the Galàpagos islands…
Edit: Also, Turtles will start a revolution. They do not want to be burned.
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Kinda make me want to write a traditional turtle.
It is more beautiful than 蟹鰐.
Nothing is more beautiful than 蟹鰐.
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蟹 = best vehicle for mayonnaise
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Are you eating our overlord?
I picked 蟹, because of awesome NPC I met during my L5R game.
And I think it’s like a third post in a row, when I mention L5R, do you see me as a creepy nerd now?
亀 because you never forget your roots
I went with ワニ cause I am afraid of them and uh… always vote for what you fear?
Anyway it also led me to find this which I didn’t know was a thing!
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Please don’t bring American politics into this 
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Once a turtle, always a turtle.
Edit: nevermind I can’t read kanji
Sorry. But my master will always be:
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亀仙人万歳。
(Oh, if only the boards knew how much was contained in those fewer-than-ten characters, that I were allowed to post them as such.)
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