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Originally Posted by MMM
As someone who has taught Japanese, as fun as it is to "bring in" those retired characters (and don't get me wrong, I love them, too) making your teacher look goofy and forcing her to explain why this character isn't in use anymore is kind of a low-blow. Yes it exists. No, she wasn't hiding it from you. But it is kind of like spelling "old" as "olde". No, it isn't "wrong", but it doesn't help things.
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I believe you are talking about the hiragana here and i completely agree, also it might lead to confusion for more struggling students as well.
on a slightly different topic the use of kanji where it is no common to be written in hiragana, i tend to think if the kanji is in the 常用漢字 list then it's use should be encouraged. i've had some young Japanese tell me that i shouldn't use kanji for 未だ、彼処 etc because it is not common with younger Japanese. I guess i'm just someone that loves kanji. i just feel it is strange to have a list of kanji for use in Japanese and then not use them in some of their most common uses. I can understand not using 迚も since that is not a 常用漢字 but not those examples i gave.