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Originally Posted by Darketernal
Its not, but i am not bothered by it. My gf is bothered by Kanji.
Well, if it bothers my GF, question comes on how many more people are bothered by it? Its not like i am AGAINST you or kanji in particular, but there's no reason to hold on to something that is illogical and difficult and which can be replaced by japanese. Fact is that Japanese developed hiragana, and it worked well without Kanji, its only been introduced to not fall behind chinese culture and economy at the time.
That Japan has a 0 or 100% literacy rate, has got not much to do with its illogical basis. And was therefore ignored by me, not for offensive reasons, but i simply could not relate any value on it topic whise. But you might see that differently.
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Illogical?? How can you say it's illogical when you can't even read it. Difficult?? Isn't it the same thing as you have to learn by heart the spellings of complicated words in your language?
As a native Japanese speaker, I say it'd be sooo inconvenient to have to read and write Japanese without kanji. I can't imagine how irritating it'd be if I had to read a paper/novel or even manga without it. I used to read for my nephew some picture books which were written without any kanji or katakana, everything was in hiragana, and it was sooo hard for me to understand the meaning of each sentence at the very first sight, and therefore I had to read the stories veeery slowly, because you need to understand the meaning of each word before reading it aloud, which takes far more time without kanji. When you're not sure if a word means 'a bridge' or 'chopsticks,' you can't pronounce it correctly.