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My bad on flipping kun and on, but that doesn't change my point. >Those readings are not used to count by native Japanese speakers (I speak Japanese and have l
by mistercow 14y ago
My bad on flipping kun and on, but that doesn't change my point.
>Those readings are not used to count by native Japanese speakers (I speak Japanese and have lived in Japan) ... They do not.
Have you asked a native speaker? Speaking Japanese as a second language is not the same as speaking it natively, so unless you have discussed this with a native speaker, I don't think that's a sufficient credential.
- w1ntermute 14y ago> Have you asked a native speaker? Yes. I have been taught how to count correctly in Japanese in a college class by native Japanese instructors with graduate degrees in the instruction of Japanese to foreign learners. And as for my experience not being "a sufficient credential", I don't think you realize (and I really do mean this in the nicest way possible) how ridiculously absurd your suggestion that anyone counts "eight, two, four, six, seven, five, one" as "ya, fu, yo, mu, na, i, hito" in Japanese sounds. It can be considered (very) roughly equivalent to suggesting that English speakers would memorize numbers using Latin or Greek prefixes.