Names and meanings were on thing: hers certainly wasn't chosen to carry on any particular meaning, even if she knew what Annie itself meant, however derived. Some words change more over time than others, just as some names have meanings buried so far back in their derivations that they're unrecogniseable anymore.
No, what pulled her attention more, and had her studying his face with some visible taken abackness, was simple. "You can read the same character in two completely different ways?"
Sure, vowels and consonants had multiple pronunciations, but ch in chair, choir, and charade were all different, but still recogniseably the same two letters. Even the thousands of common Kanji didn't sound like anything too out there for native speakers, or even those learning to handle another language. It was a matter of memorisation and route repetition. Archaic or not, having multiple readings of the same character caught her off guard.
Her fingers curled toward the center of her palm, having no sense of what the last character had looked like. She'd been distracted still with the thought of Wa, no, also Kazu's pronunciation.
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No, what pulled her attention more, and had her studying his face with some visible taken abackness, was simple. "You can read the same character in two completely different ways?"
Sure, vowels and consonants had multiple pronunciations, but ch in chair, choir, and charade were all different, but still recogniseably the same two letters. Even the thousands of common Kanji didn't sound like anything too out there for native speakers, or even those learning to handle another language. It was a matter of memorisation and route repetition. Archaic or not, having multiple readings of the same character caught her off guard.
Her fingers curled toward the center of her palm, having no sense of what the last character had looked like. She'd been distracted still with the thought of Wa, no, also Kazu's pronunciation.