> the Japanese phonetic system writes voiced sounds as a modification of their unvoiced counterparts. why can't we all do that. Fun fact, we do do that in Engl

> the Japanese phonetic system writes voiced sounds as a modification of their unvoiced counterparts. why can't we all do that. Fun fact, we do do that in English, at least for C and G. (G was introduced as a modified C to indicate the voicing).