05-19-2011, 10:39 AM
Thanks for the nice words, romaji-lovers!
What would you advise an English-learner from Japan if he asked you to correct his English sentences right below?
「ユーガイズアービーイングソーアンリーズナブル。ア イムリアリーディスアポインテッド。」
Would you be willing to correct that? Would you even care to read it for that matter? Will this "English-learner" be communicating with anyone effectively if he kept writing English like that just because it's easier for him to write English with kana as the Roman alphabet looks so strange and foreign to him? Would you call yourself elitest/purist/fanatic if you thought English should not be written in kana?
If you just said to yourself "no" a couple of times, then why the heck should I or anyone else not say the same to romaji-users? Wrong is wrong. Weird is weird. Let's start thinking things in relative terms and, most of all, be fair, dudes!
Your Japanese proficiency shall be in direct proportion
to your true interest in the Japanese Mind.
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