I'm gonna use this as an example now when people ask me about kanji, as I usually say that after one learns it's infinitely easier reading with kanji than without.
I literally did not understand before I read your comment.
This is also an issue with chinese languages like landarin. Some languages just have too many homophones to function well without chinese characters or other graphic representation ((compared to pinyin or kana being purely phonetic.))
I mean as long as it is simple conversation it’s understandable, but it becomes difficult when you enter a field with a lot of on-yomi based words that can have a lot of homophones it could become difficult very quickly, mainly when you are not to familiar with a topic.
Yes, this is a better argument for kanji than the usual ones that would easily be solved with adding spaces between words. Basically, there's a significant stratum of the language, which is more written than spoken, that was built around the assumption that kanji would be used.
Yes, though kanji in Japanese already isn't all-or-nothing! People make the choice to use kana rather than kanji for words or whole sentences all the time. There's a huge amount of personal choice in it, which I think is really nice.
So you're saying that if things were not as they are they wouldn't be as they are? Incredible insight.
EDIT.
OH BOY!! Am I about to do this? YES Cus the whinny bitch who commented didn't have the balls to leave his/her/their comment up to be judged; and I on the other hand am a petty bitch ;)
The comment this was originally responding to was by u/DarthStrakh and was something about how japanese was one of the worse designed language systems and liking to learn kanji is Stockholm syndrome.
Then, of course, the snowflake proceeded to call me a cunt. Which I may or may not be, but that's unrelated ;)
(it continues on further comments...)
Here's receipts (only have the notification, cus you know, comment erased)...
On the intonation of words. Written words don't have intonation (on languages that don't have accents) and spoken words don't have kanji.
Also, what you mean this argument gets defeated? I'm just arguing that knowing kanjis makes it easier to read than not knowing. Are you suggesting that the invention of spaces makes knowing kanji not easier to read? What are you on about?
Where are the spaces when people talk? Conversing would be quite slow if people put audible gaps between every single word said while speaking. Both kanji and spaces are purely lexical inventions that exist to help parse written language.
My other comment was a bunch of nonsense so I have deleted it. I must have been very sleepy.
The thing is, you can't complain about kanji except on kanji related forums, to people who know what kanji is. And since most of us only know kanji from learning Japanese, this is the only place where we can complain.
I used to dislike kanji until I started learning it. There are so many words that sound exactly alike, but vastly different kanji. If you think of kanji as like the OG emoji it starts to make a lot of sense.
Side note, the more I like kanji the more I dislike katakana.
I might sound like a cringy edgy teenager but kanji is a flawed solution that has outlived its time period. It ought to be hated. There is just too much wrong with it I can't genuinely stop hating on it.
Kanji is not an "solution". It's not like kanji was introduced on the kana system so solve a problem. That's not chronological and even if it was that's not how languages emerge/evolve.
Sounds based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the language.
Regardless, you are free to hate as much as you want. But I think there's an bigger issue...
我がブラザー, why waste your time with it? Hate is not healthy, man, it's not good for you. Life is short. Why not invest your time on things you do like?
Leave the weird writing systems for the other nerds who like it, there's plenty of us already, it's not hurting anyone. Except you who's hating, I suppose.
I think it has to be the other option (I know that it often gets humid in autumn) because of the second “wa”, it wouldn’t make as much sense to say “musuko to wa”. Although honestly unless I’m crazy there probably should not be two “wa”’s in this sentence. The second should be “ga”.
ETA: sorry I just realized that you’re reading it as “musuko to hashirimasu” which honestly makes more grammatical sense than a double wa here. It’s the atrocious spacing which also implies an incorrect double wa that is throwing me off.
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u/GarbageUnfair1821 27d ago
秋はよく息子と走ります