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Jan 2022
while doing the household chores, cleaning the throne
of thrones, vacuuming, mopping the floors...
peeling vegetable skins for roast vegetables...

and finally: darkness came,
with all her fiddly bits...

it probably sounds better in German...
let's see...
und endlich: dunkelheit kam,
mit alles ihr knifflig bits...

yeah... sounds better in die deutschezung(e)...
from now on: ZUNG... not...
ZUNGÉ... none of that French *******...
i.e.: tongue: toong... like... elaborating on
TONG...

so i woke up and had a vision...
if you were to translate Katakana into
Braille... you'd need... a su doku grid...
a 3 x 3... not a 2 x 3...
i abhor the modern acclaim for
the hieroglyphs that emojis are...
emoticons, whatever...

i think it's best to start with the vowels,
since, they are alone-standing
in ***-spreschen...

ア (⠁)   A
イ (⠊)   I
ウ (⠥)   U
エ (⠑)   E
オ (⠕)   O

     no, seriously,
if you were to create a Braille equivalence
for blind Japanese people, you'd require
a 3 x 3 grid, it's mathematically sound...
there's nothing brilliantly difficult
about solving a su doku puzzle...
it's just an eye-strain...

people stop solving these puzzle...
or rarely begin "thinking" it's a bit like
arithmetic,
mind you: i much prefer the spelling arithemetic
of words, mein gott...
the backlog, the storage of so many words...
i'm almost happy that i don't come
from a culture centred upon
syllable encoding...
yes, thank you... i'll just stick to these atoms
over 'ere...

i'm happiest though, when i get to write
authentically translatable words in
some European language into Japanese,
without nuance... ZERO...
                                             ゼロ...

people can emoji all they want...
i'm not going to be looking into Chinese ideograms...
i need something elevated...
and nothing out of Asia is more elevated
than Katakana / Hangul.

p.s. 502 bad gateway bypass:
title - itchy grading
body -calypso on the guillotine
Mateuš Conrad
Written by
Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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