By Miguel - 20/08/2011 19:40 - United States

Today, in algebra, I took out my notebook. My Chinese teacher was so impressed with my "Chinese" writings on the cover that I'm now her "favorite student". Those "Chinese" symbols are actually Japanese, but I wanted someone to like me so badly that I didn't correct her. FML
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theunwiseone 4

I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so

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enonymous 8

I'm more stunned the username is Miguel and he's taking Chinese classes and knows how to write Japanese. I was for sure thinking the username would have had a hello kitty reference

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effedml 5

That's what you get for underestimating Miguel.

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damnalltheasshol 0

theres this thing called balls get some.

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kickblocker 18

So you're saying that saying to a teacher "That's Japanese, not Chinese" is ballsy?

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sux4u121 10

OP is in algebra! The teacher teaches algebra not chineese the teacher simply is chineese

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TheNewGuy03 28

My guess is that the symbols on OP's notebook were kanji, which are essentially traditional Chinese characters. Japanese also makes use of some simplified Chinese characters; therein lies the difference between Korean hanja and kanji. However, hiragana and katakana, though both being the progeny of Chinese characters, look vastly different from both simplified and traditional Chinese characters (with a few exceptions). Conversely, the teacher could very well have the mental capacity of a doorstop, and simply doesn't know the difference between Chinese and Japanese (as their sentence structures are very different from each other). Sorry for writing a ******* book, goddammit. Sue me.

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interpol8 3

It's because in Japanese the Kanji characters ARE Chinese characters copied over. This happened to promote trade and political relations with China several hundred years ago. Pay attention in world history class, you uncultured *****

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ohmandapants 16

Yeah because that's what everyone learned in world history class right? Way to be a self-righteous bitch. Sorry if the rest of our world history classes weren't as "great" as yours.

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knight0748 5

45, that's cuz your education sux... And also the world history we so promote here in the USA really means a whole lot of western european history and a few sentences on Asian, middle eastern and African history.

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iAmScrubs 19

Now that you and your teacher are friends, you can go out for Chinese food sometime. He/She will love the sushi that they serve.

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TheNewGuy03 28

Maybe they can enjoy some kimchi with their sushi and fried rice.

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Lightbulb830 4

They should go to Golden Corral. Since Golden Corral is a buffet and there are Chinese buffets, they might as well be the same thing.

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eminemchick 19

yeah she might not know chinese, just have born there or the teachers parents were chinese.

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xFaust_fml 12

If she/he wrote random symbols then it's possible they happened to be chinese. The Japanese partly use the same ones. And chinese is a vast and complicated language, chinese people don't actually know every existing symbol. And maybe the teacher is from China, knows her culture, can appreciate a nice calligraphy, but can't speak the language. Doesn't mean she's dumb. Anyway, we don't have all the facts. But I understand that op wouldn't correct her, though not his/her reasons. Correcting a teacher, though highly satisfying, is always risky...

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chellyX92 8

I'm in college and a lot of students here LOVE correcting the professors. I don't get it. Once a girl corrected the teacher over a 0.00002 mistake. The teacher then spent 5 minutes redoing her math just to prove to the student she was in fact right. They waste time.

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