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> I also think that the Latin alphabet could be easily used for Japanese Writing Japanese entirely in Latin characters would be no different from writing it en
by fenomas 10y ago
> I also think that the Latin alphabet could be easily used for Japanese
Writing Japanese entirely in Latin characters would be no different from writing it entirely in hiragana. Have you ever tried reading that way?
- gizmo686 10y agoKind of. In my first semester of japanese we worked in hiragana+spaces. Having read English language papers on Japanese linguistics, I can also say that reading the Latin is easy too.
- fenomas 10y agoSure, I didn't mean to suggest it can't be done in short spurts. But reading a novel that way would be hellish. The larger point being, Japanese isn't locked into using a logographic system - it already has two phonetic syllabaries that people could start using exclusively if there was some advantage to doing so.
- cthalupa 10y agoThat sounds like an absolutely miserable experience. I'd rather be forced to look up every 3rd or 4th kanji than try to deal with all hiragana writing.