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Originally Posted by Gamer4Life
hiragana its easier for me ofcourse cause thats the one i learn the most. i understand that kanji would make it shorter and easier, but that problem is that many of them have the same name which confuses many people.  |
Look I don't disagree with you that I think it's a terribly confusing system, but... we all have to put up with it and it's fantastic quiz material. All the quiz shows in Japan feature in some form another, Kanji quizes.
Just to make you feel better, they tried to get rid of Kanji after the war, and firstly restrict it to something like 1800 characters, and they THOUGHT at the time they can reduce this as time progresses. Well now we are in 2009, Kanji Aptitude Test (Kanken) is one of the most popular cert in Japan, even more popular than English, and there is a so called Kanji boom happening. So obviously that didn't work.