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huh, i thought it was just because “owning a sound card” and “likely to play games” was the biggest overlap of the Venn circles.

no search results relevant to this.

do you mean a card as in a pc hardware ISA / PCI device, or like a paper overlay card with reminders for button actions?

sure, true. like the roman empire and roman catholic church are why so many places use latin’s letters today. due to printing decisions from a tiny ruling class only, not the general population actually speaking those languages. again, using the character set does not mean languages are mutually intelligible, heck look at modern vietnamese all in roman letters.

earlier, weren’t you, correctly, pushing back against jaschen306’s overblown claim that this means “japan and korea spoke chinese”, when we both know it was a second language for the elite class only?

exhibit a

exhibit b

No. Japanese people cannot read Chinese, and vice versa, any better than Europeans can read each others languages by guessing from similar-looking words. Usually worse because Chinese and Japanese are whole different language families, less related than most European languages. Sure, Banqiao and Itabashi cities both have the same “wood bridge” name written down, and trivial things like that, but the claim I was responding to was that using Chinese characters meant that Japanese and Koreans spoke Chinese, (the parent claimant’s actual words a couple of messages before), which is ludicrous.

No, not at all. This is is like saying most countries speak Latin because they use Roman letters.

It would not be difficult to find an American who doesn’t understand “curry” is food.

i refuse to believe this.

when the long german flag was steadily getting longer, i thought, “hmm, what might stop germans advancing eastward?” and placed the polish and czechoslovak (identical to modern czech) flags in their path.

it only stopped them for a while, (but they did go underneath instead of overwriting)

those states, Assam and beyond are called the Seven Sisters, and Sikkim is often included too as the One Brother.