2 definitions by AU-grad
A 'Kanjiaboo' is someone who is either native Japanese, or studying the language, who is fanatically stubbornly defensive of the continued existence of Kanji as an every-day tool of the written language of Japanese.
These pious advocates will claim Japanese cannot function without Kanji due to homophones, ignoring that many other languages function just fine on context alone, or that the kana scripts cannot work because they're hard to read, ignoring that Japanese could adopt word-spacing at literally any time.
Another claim is often that "too much kana is hard to read", because somehow they presume it's more difficult than English or any other phonemic script.
They may also claim Japanese couldn't function as a 'technical' language without kanji, because kana-only technical terms would be unwieldy.
The only problem here is that it ignores languages like German, and also ignores the biggest elephant in that linguistic room of all: LOAN WORDS.
Note that English is a crude Germanic tongue wearing the mutilated remains of other languages it has encountered. Dependent on definition you can say English is in the whole a language of 'loan words'.
The above criticisms imply Japanese is fundamentally a broken language, and it's speakers incapable of functioning even though there is no kanji in the spoken language.
These pious advocates will claim Japanese cannot function without Kanji due to homophones, ignoring that many other languages function just fine on context alone, or that the kana scripts cannot work because they're hard to read, ignoring that Japanese could adopt word-spacing at literally any time.
Another claim is often that "too much kana is hard to read", because somehow they presume it's more difficult than English or any other phonemic script.
They may also claim Japanese couldn't function as a 'technical' language without kanji, because kana-only technical terms would be unwieldy.
The only problem here is that it ignores languages like German, and also ignores the biggest elephant in that linguistic room of all: LOAN WORDS.
Note that English is a crude Germanic tongue wearing the mutilated remains of other languages it has encountered. Dependent on definition you can say English is in the whole a language of 'loan words'.
The above criticisms imply Japanese is fundamentally a broken language, and it's speakers incapable of functioning even though there is no kanji in the spoken language.
Japanese Learner: "Boy I sure wish I didn't have to learn so many anachronistic awkward kanji."
Kanjiaboo: "Yeah but without them nobody could ever read Japanese, it's speakers would automatically become mute, the Emperor's line would be extinguished, the elements would begin to destroy Japan and pull it beneath the waves and a thousand years of darkness would descend upon the world."
Korea: "You are one stubborn, dramatic kanjiaboo aren't you?"
Kanjiaboo: "Yeah but without them nobody could ever read Japanese, it's speakers would automatically become mute, the Emperor's line would be extinguished, the elements would begin to destroy Japan and pull it beneath the waves and a thousand years of darkness would descend upon the world."
Korea: "You are one stubborn, dramatic kanjiaboo aren't you?"
by AU-grad August 11, 2020
An adult daycare in the north-east of Scotland oddly enough within the city of Aberdeen yet separate. An ad-hoc collection of buildings and properties from various centuries and architectural styles as needs/fancy demanded. The medical school is by necessity an acceptable provider of education and knowledge, the rest of the facilities cater to the shiftless bored offspring of parents with enough money to send their progeny off somewhere away to avoid the real world for a few more years. The staff are nice enough if not wholly interested in educating their charges, and the university prides itself on it's status in the realms of research due to it's mediocre provision of any actual teaching.
An 'ancient' university that lives off of the prestige it claims from just happening to have been around a good while, and attracts new fee payers via hawking it's post-medieval architecture which recalls a Harry Potter theme park in some passing manner.
Apply here if you're more interested in a vaguely known and moderately respected university name on your degree where the programme of study won't be very challenging but you'll have plenty of time to go out drinking and do other things with your time relatively stress-free.
See Robert Gordon's University for an Aberdeen based tertiary education that while not as glamorous, will be more challenging and practical.
Authored by a graduate of the University of Aberdeen.
An 'ancient' university that lives off of the prestige it claims from just happening to have been around a good while, and attracts new fee payers via hawking it's post-medieval architecture which recalls a Harry Potter theme park in some passing manner.
Apply here if you're more interested in a vaguely known and moderately respected university name on your degree where the programme of study won't be very challenging but you'll have plenty of time to go out drinking and do other things with your time relatively stress-free.
See Robert Gordon's University for an Aberdeen based tertiary education that while not as glamorous, will be more challenging and practical.
Authored by a graduate of the University of Aberdeen.
"You know, I'm actually prepared for the real world just because the University of Aberdeen has made me so bored of the uni bubble world I can't wait to leave and do something else!"
"I hear you, once our tutor gave us 10 pages of material to read and someone in the group actually cried because they couldn't go straight to Qizmat before spending a whole afternoon at the Bobbin then off to Belmont street on a pub crawl."
"I hear you, once our tutor gave us 10 pages of material to read and someone in the group actually cried because they couldn't go straight to Qizmat before spending a whole afternoon at the Bobbin then off to Belmont street on a pub crawl."
by AU-grad April 22, 2013