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Paul11 (Offline)
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05-18-2010, 06:25 AM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
Experienced readers of Japanese can "see" stroke order. The "sarifs" will often point in the direction of where your next stroke will start, so if you are out of order, you can often see it in the writing.
Exactly. If you write a Kanji out of order, in front of a Japanese person, he might not recognize it, even if it's correctly rendered. Not always. Not usually. But sometimes.
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