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Originally Posted by Gaberdeen
However - in relation to your retort regarding Romaji's relationship to foreigners(MMM)
My post was NOT regarding Romaji's use to benefit foreigners - I highlighted it's "convenience" at being phonetically identical to the structure of Hiragana and Katakana and by proxy - it's benefit to westerners as a translation tool.
I did not and have not insisted that it was developed to help foreigners, but you can judge yourself how difficult it would be to translate japanese script without using romaji as a translation tool.
To me & I daresay to you (MMM), that benefits foreigners immensly. (If the foreigner wants to learn japanese)
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I am sorry I misread your post, Gaberdeen.
I am not sure what you mean by "using romaji as a translation tool". If you mean we use a QWERTY keyboard to type Japanese, then, yes, the ABCs are essential for inputing Japanese. But I don't think that's what you meant...