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It's a bit poetic but it's almost right: Hiragana is for words (native Japanese) and Katakana is for spelling things out phonetically (onomatopoeic words and fo
by syncsynchalt 10y ago
It's a bit poetic but it's almost right: Hiragana is for words (native Japanese) and Katakana is for spelling things out phonetically (onomatopoeic words and foreign loanwords).
This ignores the fact that a significant percentage of everyday Japanese life is now loanwords, so you can't really dismiss them as not being part of the language.