What is the meaning of a "two-dimensional" character?
Objects in real life have three dimensions: height, width, and depth. Images in a photo or on a screen have two dimensions; they lack depth.A “two-dimensional” character is said to lack depth; that is, one who has few identifying features and not much of a personality. The audience or reader is given no background information and no explanation for why the character acts or thinks the way he/she does. They are said to be “flat” and often unengaging and uninteresting; one stereotype is the “cardboard villain” or “cut-out hero.” They are the same person at the beginning and end of the story, having gone through the motions of the plot, but not changing or learning anything. It would be impossible to say that any action is “out of character” because what is typical or normal for that person is not clear.It's pretty much impossible to tell a story without characters. If two-dimensional characters serve a minor or utilitarian purpose, it’s not important to know much about them. Even a 2-D character at the story’s center is not necessarily bad; character “depth” should be in proportion to the role’s importance to the story. Or how much stuff gets blown up.One, Two, and Three Dimensional Characters and How to Use Them2D and 3D charactersThe Cure For Cardboard Villain SyndromeCharacter Depth - TV TropesDynamic Character - TV TropesFlat Character - TV TropesCharacter Development - TV Tropes
What is the meaning of 3 80-character lines maximum in writing?
is there anyone can tell me what is the meaning of 3 80-character lines maximum in writing ..plz .. so 3 means the maximum line ? in my scholarship essay it says within 250 words or less....and then it also says that 99 80 character lines maximum.. within 40 lines ..it has 645 words already.. so should i minimize it to become 250 words... pls ..help me.. thanks
What does it mean to identify with a character?
It's pretty much when you see a character, and they say, do, or think things that you thought that only you did. Or have gone through same experiences as yourself. Also, it could be that you feel empathy and can relate as well. It's when you get that happy buzzy feeling that your not the only one.
How many words are in 1000 characters?
Two: “1000” and “characters.”Joking aside, we need to define “character.”If you mean hieroglyphs then you have 1,000 words and then you have the potential for many more if you can make compound words out of those characters.If you mean an alphabet with 1,000 letters, I suggest seriously pruning back the alphabet! Thirty or less should be plenty.But you could hypothesize some alien species whose perceptual system enabled it to distinguish that many sounds (or gestures perhaps) that were meaningfully different.Then you would have to know if the language had a minimum number of letters that could make up a word (one?), whether all the letters could serve as words, what would be limitations on letter combinations, what would be the limits on the length of words (how many letters in sequence), and so on.Depending on the answers to those and other questions, you could ask how many words could 1,000 letters generate. A lot! English with ~26 letters has generated over a million words. Since 1,000 is around 38 times 26, I’m going to guesstimate that 1,000 letters could generate 38 squared times 1 million words for around 1,444,000,000, or just say 1.5 billion words. But maybe the average five-year-old-equivalent alien could get by a couple million words
What in the world are character lines?
A letter, number or punctuation is a "character." Here is a line with 8 characters: THIS LINE On your application, the short answers are limited to six lines, each with 80 letters/numbers. This is how UT controls how much people are allowed to write for that answer. Further, it encourages the writer to think long and hard about exactly how to use the available space to say what is important.
What does this quote mean?? "character is much easier to keep than recover"?
We had a similar albeit cruder saying in the military. "One Ah Sh*t wipes out a thousand That-a-boys". It simply means that you are expected to be honest and of good character. Since it is the norm it is not remembered for a long period of time. However, one breach or character is remembered indefinitely. That breach tells everyone you are capable of deceit and as such you must be watched more closely as you may decide to do it again.
I am learning Japanese. Hiragana and katakana have 46 characters. And then there is kanji. How many characters does kanji have? How often are hiragana or katakana used?
The government defines "normally used kanjis" which is called joyo-kanji, and that contains about 2000 letters. Japanese start learning kanji at the 1st year of elementary, and complete learning those kanjis at junior-high. You can check which kanji we learn at which grade here:http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/sho...We keep learning rare-used kanjis even after junior-high, and it is said that a typical Japanese adult knows 4000 letters of kanji.Hiragana/katakana itself doesn't have a meaning. It describes only the sound, just like latin alphabets. Kanjis have meanings for each character. If you write はし (hashi) its unclear what it means. It might be a bridge, or chopsticks, or an edge. If you write it in kanji like 橋、箸、端 then its clear what it means, and it also saves space. So basically grown-up people make use of kanjis as much as they can when they write sentences. Hiragana is used for conjugations and conjunctions, glueing kanjis into a sentence, like 山に登った (I climbed a mountain), where 山 means "mountain" and 登 means "to climb". But it is completely OK to write it in hiragana if you don't know kanjis. A 1st grader writes a letter almost all in hiragana because they don't know kanjis. Katakana is used to describe words imported from foreign language like アイスクリーム(aisukuriimu, ice cream) or アメリカ(amerika, America), so its used mostly for nouns. For example a wine list in a restaurant is written mostly in katakana. You may feel desperate about the number of the letters you have to learn, but I would say that a 3rd grader can read most of the sentences we see in our daily life, and are able to guess the meaning even if they don't know the exact letter. My 3rd grader son is at this stage :-) That is 440 letters. After learning 300 or so, you will see a common pattern among kanjis, like 花 草 葉 茶 (flower, weed, leaf, tea) has a common part which look like ++ on its top because its all related to plants, and it will get easier and easier to learn more. Good luck!
How do I get to use more than 300 characters when asking questions on Quora?
That question must have been added before Quora changed its policy and imposed a restriction on the no. of characters you can have in your question description. Earlier there wasn't a character limit on question descriptions, and the questions added at that time haven't been removed or altered as the new policy only applies to new questions, not the existing ones. The question you are talking about was asked before the new policy was imposed.There is now way you can put a question description that long now. What you can do though is add your long description in a comment and ask the viewers to read the comment for details.The policy was introduced so that overly specific questions that do not help a broad audience or question posed as rants are discouraged. Just in case your description would fall into any of those categories, I'd advice that you consider rephrasing/ rethinking the question in way that it would interest a wider audience and doesn't appear as a rant for self-ingratiation.