Katakana came from Hebrew

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The ancient Hebrews had many sects. One of these sects, inexplicably, got on a boat and rowed all the way to Japan, where they taught the people how to write. This writing system changed slightly over time, but it is where the Japanese people got their unique and wonderful way of writing.

Ok, that was nonsense. Not the “unique and wonderful” part, that’s true 😀 The part before that. Some people just don’t know how things work, and will see chance resemblances in some cases and use that to “prove” something. Even in the picture on this post, “ts” do not look similar.

“You have to mirror it vertically”, they say. Well, do you have to do that with any of the others? No? Well, it’s not a very good match then is it. The “f” column isn’t that good of a match either, neither is “h” or “q”. And these are the ones that work the best!

They didn’t even show the ones that don’t match at all! Word of advice, don’t take all you know about language from memes you find on the internet 😀

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