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[–] [email protected] 129 points 6 days ago (2 children)

from left to right:

  • human
  • dog
  • horse
  • flamingo
[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 days ago (2 children)

With a helpful reminder in parenthesis that they mean flamingo the bird, as opposed to the casino, which doesn’t have any feet.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

According to their press kit, their casino alone has 93,000 feet. All of them square for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

As opposed to, what, triangular feet? Spiral feet? Perhaps you’d feel better if their feet were hyperboloid? ffs get a grip.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

They have even more cubic feet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you just have to find the right room

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Or order from the special room service menu

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But why Katakana? Those are some reasonably basic kanji- certainly not beyond bird anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

it seems that the scientific nomenclature for families of animals in Japanese uses katakana:

this is confirmed by a few comments on this page: https://ja.hinative.com/questions/14614111

Basically, the kanji “犬” is used. Since “犬” is an elementary Kanji character, the hiragana “いぬ” is not often used.

The katakana “イヌ” is used in more biological contexts than “犬”.

Example:

  • “Walking with a dog” 犬
  • “Inu is a mammalian animal” イヌ

However, not all Japanese follow this rule. If in doubt, just write the kanji character for “dog” and you will be fine.