> The way I've heard it explained is that Japanese has too many homonyms and simply writing things by sound would be too ambiguous. I explored this concept in

> The way I've heard it explained is that Japanese has too many homonyms and simply writing things by sound would be too ambiguous. I explored this concept in this Reddit comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/14bv4p/wednesday_ama_i_am_asiaexpert_one_stop_shop_for/c7bqdkq http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/14bv4p/wednes...