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Your Brain on Japanese

Posted September 12th, 2011 at 10:42 PM by Scarf (The Uncarved Blog)
Updated September 13th, 2011 at 03:35 PM by Scarf
Tags brain, nonsense
Just a silly website for everyone to play with. [clicky, clicky] Enter your username and use my handy translation key to find out what's really inside your head.

Here is mine:



And here's your guide:


  • 寂: loneliness
  • 愛: love
  • 秘: secrets
  • H: sex
  • 休: rest
  • 楽: enjoyment, comfort
  • 悩: worry
  • 欲: desire
  • 善: virtue
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What DOESN'T make you look fat!?

Posted October 13th, 2009 at 08:53 AM by Citrinin (Ramblings of a Madman)
Updated October 13th, 2009 at 09:58 AM by Citrinin
(Wow it's been a while since I've made a blog entry. @_@; I have to get back into it. :})

If we imagine this as a very simplified process of coming up with things to say:

[think it]->[decide whether to say it]->[say it]

The mechanisms each by themselves are fascinating. Thinking of something to say is an interesting area, encompassing cognitive linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and all the other fun brain-related topics. The final part involves all...
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Think of a random word

Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 06:38 AM by Citrinin (Ramblings of a Madman)
Updated October 13th, 2009 at 10:00 AM by Citrinin
Think of a random word.

I thought of "mosquito".

I wonder, what are the thought processes involved in coming up with a random number or word. It can't be truly random - I'd watched an old episode of Family Guy that used the word "mosquito" a few times in one of the scenes, which was the thing that prompted me to think of mosquito.

So how does the brain drag a memory up for this "random" word? What processes does it go through to...
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