Brooze's Blog

No jokes allowed: learning Japanese is a super serious business.  The title of this entry got me permanently banned from the Discord server of the Learn Japanese Subreddit. I love Japanese, but I can't fucking stand half the people who study it.  But I couldn't care less about being banned by some random server that's clearly full of ignorant mods who can't comprehend how calling Japanese a meme language could be a reverence. Why would I want to talk with those idiots anyway? I will however take this opportunity to expand on the idea. It goes without saying (or at least, I thought it did) but of course, obviously, Japanese is a real language spoken by real people to live their lives, think, communicate, do business, experience art, read the news, and so on. It's not strictly a meme language, and it has a rich history that inspires admiration and wonder in everyone who knows it.  But Japanese is undeniably full of memes. Americans have meme-ified Japanese. Which mea...

What are some of the books you had to read in English class?  Better yet, what are some of the books you read that EVERYONE ELSE liked but you hated? I can think of a few, ranked from WORST to first: Speak (Awful!!) The Outsiders (Cringe) To Kill A Mockingbird (Outdated) Of Mice and Men (Boring) The Great Gatsby (Bloated) The Hunger Games (Okay but overrated) The Hunger Games Now don't get me wrong, this is an okay book, but incredibly overrated. Of course, this is to be expected. The Hunger Games, like Twilight, is a book that got teenagers interested in reading again. For many kids this was probably the first book they actually read and enjoyed in 5 years, 10 years, maybe ever. So it's natural that it blew up. That's not to say it's a bad book, it's just an average book that's praised as the best book ever by people who haven't read any other books.  The Great Gatsby I'm afraid of looking stupid for disliking this book. Because some of my classmates wh...