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The ambiguity of the one-to-many character-reading relationship may also affect its usability for objective diction, as in science. Quoting from Neil Postman’s
by psychomugs 4y ago
The ambiguity of the one-to-many character-reading relationship may also affect its usability for objective diction, as in science. Quoting from Neil Postman’s Technopoly, Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate Susumu Tonegawa said that “the Japanese language does not foster clarity or effective understanding in scientific research” and recommends adopting English.
- fomine3 4y agoI think he said it for other reason rather than kanji reading. When people discuss about logical speech and writing in Japanese, it is often said that Japanese language is good at to make sentence ambiguous. Omitting subject and object is pretty common. One-to-many is not much problem compared to that for natives.
- psychomugs 4y agoTrue, grammar as a source of ambiguity makes sense.