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Japanese readers don’t literally rotate the book unless it’s a long quotation. For names or a quote of several words you just get used to reading rotated text.
by goodside 7y ago
Japanese readers don’t literally rotate the book unless it’s a long quotation. For names or a quote of several words you just get used to reading rotated text.
I’m not arguing this is a good design. The parent post said “... and unless Japanese people read roman letters differently than we do...”, so I was pointing out that, in this context, they do.
Tategaki (vertical script) is a traditional style and, anecdotally, younger Japanese people find it harder to read than yokogaki (horizontal script). Using tategaki on websites at all is unusual.
- hattori31 7y ago> Tategaki (vertical script) is a traditional style and, anecdotally, younger Japanese people find it harder to read than yokogaki (horizontal script) Hello from Japan. Searching in Japanese gives no result and I fail to comprehend how is this even possible, given that almost everything is written in tategaki. Where did you get this info?
- goodside 7y agoI think I remembered reading it here: https://www.learnwitholiver.com/japanese/blog-post-2 https://www.learnwitholiver.com/japanese/blog-post-2 My mistake. Thanks for the correction.