Katakana, Hiragana, and "English"
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 5:12 pm
I was reading the lengthy list of comments that were posted to a video on youtube by a linguist who was describing how Japanese is the most difficult written language to master. Among his points, and in the comments were how crazy it was that Japanese has TWO phonetic scripts with EXACTLY the same pronunciations. A comment was made how that made no sense at all to English speakers.
Well, the point was also made in one of the comments, that our language has EXACTLY the same situation, we have two scripts that we English speakers use to write with that duplicate each other. They are, of course, Capital and Lower Case! (I never thought of that!). Of course, these two scripts resemble each other much more than Hiragana and Katakana do each other, but ....
Well, the point was also made in one of the comments, that our language has EXACTLY the same situation, we have two scripts that we English speakers use to write with that duplicate each other. They are, of course, Capital and Lower Case! (I never thought of that!). Of course, these two scripts resemble each other much more than Hiragana and Katakana do each other, but ....