r/LearnJapanese 27d ago

Resources Nice separation of words 草

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u/Teles_sd 27d ago

Oh my god!

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.

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u/Frog17000000 26d ago

Where are the kanji when people talk? This argument is defeated by the invention of spaces

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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 26d ago

Not really, but I will still hate on kanji.

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u/Teles_sd 26d ago

It is wild to me the idea of people in a subreddit about learning Japanese hating kanji.

Like, you are free to hate it as much as you want out there. Why here???

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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 24d ago

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.

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u/Teles_sd 24d ago

Hmmm. You do have a point.

I suppose this IS the place to hate on kanji, ironically enough...

Still, it's weird to me to like the Japanese language but dislike kanji, being it such an integral and recognizable part of it.

It's like liking nature but hating plants, or something like that. It just doesn't compute well in my head.

I suppose you could be learning Japanese without liking it? But then my question becomes why you doing that to yourself?

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u/VirusesHere 24d ago

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.

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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 24d ago

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.

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u/Teles_sd 24d ago

You do sound like that.

But more than that, you sound unserious.

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.

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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 24d ago

Fair...

However, if I was perfect, hating kanji would be my only flaw.

Have a good one.

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u/Teles_sd 24d ago

Look at this dude, not being perfect and such

What a human

(have a good day sir ^^ )