Japanese tried the same thing - dropping kanji[0] and kana[1] entirely in favor of romaji[2]. It failed primarily for the same reason that English spelling refo

Japanese tried the same thing - dropping kanji[0] and kana[1] entirely in favor of romaji[2]. It failed primarily for the same reason that English spelling reform fails, which is that we the horrifically mangled and confusing orthography to distinguish words spelled the same way. [0] Characters derived from Chinese. Each character has both an embedded meaning and one or more readings. They look like this: 漢字 [1] Characters that spell out whole syllables. The glyphs are typographically derived from kanji, but very simplified and without meanings. Due to medieval Japanese gender politics, there are two of them. They look like this: ひらがな and カタカナ. [2] The characters you are using right now.