Rant 028 / Pubic hair Is Grown Where It Is Because Man Was Not Meant to Wear Underwear!

Captain Obvious, On The Titanic




















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We all love afk players. They are so much fun!





Trivia 01: I always type the title of the rant after I'm done ranting.
Trivia 02: The title usually doesn't have anything to do with the rant.
Trivia 03: The quotes in my MSN are usually my creations, which is why usually they are as "interesting" as they are.
Trivia 04: The following statement is true. The previous statement is false.




Chaos is the mother of change.




I've always thought that mandarin and many chinese dialects are not meant to be sung. Unlike english, they have different tones for every word, and spoken together its almost like music. To me, english is more beautiful written than spoken. But for chinese (mandarin and many dialects), it is the reverse. Which is why xiang4 sheng1 ( I don't know how to write these 2 characters :D) seems more suitable for the language than songs. Tones are already imbued in the chinese language, and what xiang sheng adds to it is the rhythm. Together they are very similar to songs. On the other hand, this also gives chinese speakers a slight disadvantage at expressing their feelings, compared to english speakers. English speakers can express their emotions through manipulation of the tones and pitches of their speech, whereas chinese speakers can only do such to a very small degree, lest they change the words they are trying to say. But they are able to offset this by adding certain words to their speech, like 呀 or 啊 to their speech. This is not as efficient as what can be done to english, because such words are, mostly, placed at the end of sentences, while in english, the tones and pitches of the entire speech can be changed to show the desired emotion right from the start.

Let's go back to music. English is very suitable for songs simply because their tones are not set. No matter what tone or pitch they are spoken with, there is almost no risk of changing the words. And in my opinion, chinese is to rap as english is to xiang sheng. LOL just imagine an english xiang sheng performance! It'll be a whole conversation spoken in 1 single tone! And when chinese is rapped, all tones are removed. It is incredibly hard to understand what is said in the rap, compared to english rap. I know this may be offensive to some but chinese rap is bullshit, just like english xiang sheng. I'm not going any further than that and touch on chinese rappers, though. I'm not suicidal, yet.

Ironically, even though english is more beautiful in its written form, it really does seem to be designed for speech. You see, english words are formed by letters. All these letters show you how the words are to be pronounced, and that is their main function. When reading english documents, the reader needs to recognize the words the letters formed, before thinking about what they mean. This means that a person listening to english words can understand what is conveyed faster than a reader reading english words, because by listening, they skip the step of recognizing the letters and the words they form and can go straight to understanding the meanings of the words.

In chinese, the characters are like pictures. Some do show you how the word is meant to be pronounced, but not all. Instead, chinese characters are formed from pictures of what they are suppose to symbolise, so that it can convey their meanings more easily without much imagination. In the case of ancient chinese, there is little need for imagination as it is almost like looking at a series of drawings! Therefore, it was designed for maximum efficiency of information conveyance when written. In other words, it was made to be written! What an irony!

But this brings about one possible implication. Does this mean that the ancient chinese rulers did not believe in the memories of their messengers, or trust the messengers as much as their european counterparts, therefore requiring such a design in their language so that written documents becomes the better way to store their messages? Such a way reduces the speed of transmission of information, but greatly reduces the possibilities of errors.

Learning chinese is not harder than learning english. They are just different. Whichever language one finds easier to learn really depends on what the person is more accustomed to. Learning english is like learning to use 26 basic building blocks to build their structures, whereas learning chinese is like learning to use different combination of any of the thousands of different building blocks available according to what you want the structure to be. To simplify things further, is the memorisation of the thousands of combinations of a mere 26 basic blocks of the english language or the memorisation of the thousands of basic building blocks of the chinese language easier? This only applies to the learning of these languages, and has nothing to do with the mastering of them.





I hate drunks and gangsters. They shout so loud I can hear them from here, 22 storeys above them. Especially at night. And the muthafuckin bikers who make that irritatingly loud noise with their exhaust pipes. Sometimes I think I should learn to use a sniper rifle, get one, and just camp at night on a top level of one of the tall buildings near the main roads. And snipe those gas tanks of their bikes to blow their balls off. If I miss I'll probably shoot their ass/balls instead. Both are fine with me. Ah, the joys of fantasies.....

They have to be guys. Only guys like to do meaningless things that serve no other apparent purpose but to annoy. Well there are girls like that but they are as common as geeks who date supermodels regularly.