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Originally Posted by Columbine
Hahaha, and here I should also sort of contradict myself. Even in romaji there are rules and set ways of writing it. :|
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This is true, there are a few styles of romanization for Japanese, just like chinese and I assume Korean. The biggest problem with roomaji, other than reading english letters, is that each person breaks up words differently when they write in roomaji. Along with that, if someone was to write with NO spaces in roomaji it would be a huge, difficult to read mess. Roomaji doesn't come with the added benefit of kanji to help easily discern words when you're reading a sentence.
Edit: I'm not trying to pile on, here, but with regard to more information meaning more knowledge I will call direct BS on that. I am a college student, and if there's one thing I'm good at doing, it's adding lots of superfluous information or varying sentence structure to say the same thing and lengthen papers. What could probably be expressed in 2 pages may be done in 4 because I'm more descriptive or wordy than I need to be.
Another website that no one tends to suggest (because it's shorter) but is helpful nonetheless, is nihongoresources.com. Also, if you're interested he's got a big 関西弁（かんさいべん）Kansai-ben word list that I've seen referenced in other things that teach/discuss Kansai-ben.