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RickOShay (Offline)
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07-14-2010, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ParaPara View Post
Keep in mind this post comes from someone with little experience in writing in Japanese. Does it take longer to write using the hiragana, katakana, and kanji then it does to write using the English alphabet.

I have never actually seen someone write kanji before. It just looks like it takes so many strokes just to say somthing simple.
Well speed is all about who is writing as others have pointed out, but I do know that you can almost certainly fit more information into the same amount of space in Japanese than you can in English.
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