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If that's what the author is referring to, there are less ambiguous ways to express it. Even so: in my experience in Japan I've seen e.g. 認 hand-written both w
by corey_moncure 9y ago
If that's what the author is referring to, there are less ambiguous ways to express it.
Even so: in my experience in Japan I've seen e.g. 認 hand-written both ways, and specifically remember becoming curious about this variant. My conclusion after consulting with native speakers and university professors I knew there was that they are essentially and functionally equivalent. That is, against the author's point, Japanese speakers do not note a difference at all.
- emodendroket 9y agoSo on one side we have reference materials and on the other we have your anecdote. Even if we accepted its validity, this is just one example of many.
- Manishearth 9y agoFWIW many of the unified characters under Han unification are considered "wrong" specifically in Japan (in other CJK countries folks seem to be more lax). From what I understand the feeling is as if you started writing `s` as `ſ` in English. I'm not very sure of this but it seems like the Japanese characters mostly stayed the same after branching off of Hanzi usage at various points many centuries ago (more than a millenium ago, actually), whereas in China these characters evolved.
- emodendroket 9y agoTo the extent this is true I'd say it's because Korean people only occasionally use Chinese characters and the default is almost always to display Chinese variants, and not because Japanese people are uniquely particular.