ChatGPT's response is full of BS.
青い魚 is あおいさかな NOT あおいう お
The middle character has nothing to do with the verb to be; it's an adjective suffix.
青い魚 is literally "blue fish". It's not a full sentence.
青い魚 is あおいさかな NOT あおいう お
The middle character has nothing to do with the verb to be; it's an adjective suffix.
青い魚 is literally "blue fish". It's not a full sentence.
い adjectives are said to have a built in copula, at least in material I've read, and since な in な adjectives is from the classical Japanese copula にある, one could surmise that い is also derived from a copula. As far as I can tell that is entirely wrong, but it is the kind of thing I wondered immediately after hearing that な and だ were derived from forms of ある.
Disclaimer: very little actual understanding of Japanese.
Is the main idea still correct? I'm curious what technique Japanese speakers use to avoid collisions like the one referenced in the article.
There's no technique per se. It's just the character size.
Example:
好 vs 女子