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Originally Posted by Nameless
Heh, yet again another discussion where everyone seems angry.
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Kind of ironic that people interested in a culture where the very pretense is politeness "seem" to come off as exactly the opposite. Although, less than 10% of communication is the actual words used so maybe the insults and slurs being hurled around here are said in a lovingly, and whimsical type tone. (heh....)
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Originally Posted by Nameless
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE KANJI, I doubt there is a better looking and intricate system, but it is ILLOGICAL.
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Yes, this is probably the reason for the stated poll.
A few quotes from established "experts" on the Japanese culture who point out this same fact:
Jay Rubin (Professor of Japanese Literature at Harvard University) quotes in his book "Making Sense of Japanese" George Bailey Sansom's (historian of pre-modern Japan particularly noted for his historical surveys and attention to Japanese society) astute observance that the sounds of Japanese are:
"simple and few in number, are very well suited to notation by an alphabet, and it is perhaps one of the tragedies of Oriental history that the Japanese genius did not a thousand years ago rise to its invention. Certainly when one considers the truly appalling system which in the course of the centuries they did evolve, that immense and intricate apparatus of signs for recording a few dozen little syllables, one is inclined to think that the western alphabet is perhaps the greatest triumph of the human mind."
Now, I wouldn't think it proper or logical (which is ironic considering the Kanji system IS very illogical) to remove kanji from the Japanese culture because it is one of the most dramatic (and traumatizing heh) cultural aspects to a foreign person.