There should be a name for bad "shower thoughts" posts.
Shower slop?
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
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The umlauted letters are separate letters, your table is wrong.
Japanese only has 46 letters? So we're completely ignoring the existence of Kanji?
Kanji and Hanzi belong to logograms and are not 100% phonetically indicative.
Toki Pona has 14 letters (and less than 200 words).
Anyone care to explain why it's getting downvoted?
Maybe its not really a shower thought, its a list. Idk just a guess.
My best guess as well
It probably doesn't count as a shower thought. Also, the list is probably all wrong, e.g. Khmer and Tamil are abugidas, not alphabets.
And French doesn't have é è ë û ê ç ô and ï?
Also ä ö ü for German. And Chinese is missing completely. I highly suspect this was written by an LLM.
I don't think a LLM would be so wrong about it.
they're really bad with numbers
How many r's in an alphabet?
Does ř count?
Dunno, is it considered a separate letter?
Depends. Not according to OP, yes according to everyone else.
one i think
Tbf i've never heard of them being counted in the alphabet as separated letters, so 26 is the number i've always seen.
Then why count them for Germany?
In some languages they count as diacritics, while in others they are separate letters.
For example, in Finnish, å, ä, and ö are independent letters. The dots don't do anything special, just like in i.
Apparently OP made a separate note for German special letters but did not include them in the count in the list, it's also 26. They could have made the specification for French too indeed, or not have made the one for German.
🇫🇮suomi: 29
I was watching a docu series on language, I'm sure an estimate of the number of Chinese pictographs in total was around 50000, of which several hundred were common. Literacy in 2000-3000 symbols is enough for most communication.
I went to school in China till 2nd grade and use Cantonese at home (like at a very basic level, I don't have the lexicon to discuss "adult topics" like politics, science, philosophy, etc...)
But that's enough to understand 99% of the plot of Mandarin/Cantonese TV shows with zero subtitles. I mean, sometimes there's new vocab, but your can figure it out with the context. I could also mute the sounds and read chinese subtitles, and still understand it that way. Read and Listen is easy, Write would be the challenging part.
I actually don't know exactly how many characters/syllables I could understand lol. But clearly you don't need a lot, just grade-school level is good enough.
I don't think people actually remember characters especially nowadays. Its not like alphabetic languages whete you can sound it out, because the same chracter has like a different pronunciation in each different Chinese Variant (aka: "Dialect"). In the past, I read about that they used to use pen and paper to communicate because of "Dialect" differences.
I remember like the characters for numbers and my Chinese Name, but I can't write a basic sentence using a pen, even though I can type it using Pinyin or Jyutping (Cantonese Pinyin). Idk if my parents can still write after being in the US for over a decade.
Portuguese uses 23, w y and k are only for imported words. It also has plenty of mutators like á à ã â é ê ó õ ô ú ç, but I don't know if you should count those as letters.
Those count as separate letters.