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11-17-2009, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by xyzone View Post
hehe So what's worse, romanji or writing in all kana? Doesn't all kana make you seem like a little kid is writing or will Japanese tolerate it?
What's worse? Romaji. No comparison!

Japanese write in all kana for the first couple of months of 1st grade untill they start learning kanji and replacing the kana little by little. This may be a short period of time but it's the natural course of learning to write. Therefore, we don't even have to "tolerate" all kana. We're all used to seeing it.

Yet we never write all romaji for as long as we live. Romaji means writing Language A using the letters of Language B. It isn't cool. Sensible Japanese people won't tolerate it just as sensible English-speakers wouldn't tolerate it if I wrote English in all kana.
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