farmgineer

I came to complain about JS and see that I was beat to the punch

Lateral, with Tom Scott, is a fantastic podcast. I also like Escape this Podcast (escape room in podcast form), Let’s Learn Everything (science-adjacent), Good Job Brain (trivia), Highside Lowside (motorcycle stuff), Data Over Dogma (religion from data/historical/linguistic perspective, mostly bible stuff), Words Unravelled (linguistics), and Lingthusiasm.

I have more related to the language I’m learning, other religious topics (I’m an atheist but still find it interesting from a history perspective), and some other stuff I think is less interesting to a broad audience. RIP Sci-Show Tangents which I would love to have recommended.

Japanese enters the chat:

Left: numeral; middle: regular writing; final: certain formal and non-forgery usecases.

または in point 7 means either variant is OK

The last line says one can use the modern yen sign as well (though some would argue that it’s bad manners in at least some situations, but I have no dog in that fight).

万 = 10k. Several countries use both 1k and 10k units (Japan traditionally was on the 10k side but had a lot of influence so now we see both a lot. A used car price might be 130万円 or something ( = 1,300,000 yen)

数字	通常の漢字	金額で使う旧字体（大字）  
0	零	零  
1	一	壱  
2	二	弐  
3	三	参  
4	四	肆  
5	五	伍  
6	六	陸  
7	七	柒（または 漆）  
8	八	捌  
9	九	玖  
10	十	拾  
100	百	佰  
1k	千	仟  
万	万	萬  
円	円	圓（もしくは「円」のまま）  

Chart from here that looks better: https://saiseich.com/business/kanji_kingaku/

We have a way of writing numbers in certain situations. Think of it like checks in the US where we write things in a certain way so that the numbers can’t be easily changed to increase the value or something.