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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
Somewhere on JF I think masaegu or another native Japanese speaker posted a link to a publishing guide or university site or something identifying broad categories of words for which kana is preferred. I can't find the bookmark offhand.
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It was me, I am sure but I failed to bookmark it then and now I cannot find it again.
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Originally Posted by rmpalpha
My Japanese textbook has kanji for a lot of the vocabulary items in the book, but there are definitely some items where the kanji is not listed (which is surprising to me as they are not that difficult).
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How easy or difficult the kanji are has very little to do with it. It is more a matter of taste. You could look very uneducated or to be of bad taste for writing the words in kanji that the majority of us do not. This is one important factor that Japanese-learners with a Chinese background will always face.
As
Nyororin stated, the meaning of a word will often change completely depending on how it is written. To use one of your examples:
つまらない = boring
詰まらない = not packed, not stuffed, not clogged, etc.