Date: 2009-03-06 18:31 (UTC)From: [identity profile] mindstalk.livejournal.com
a) Yeah, I dimly remember your blog story, kanji to Chinese to English back to hiragana or something.

b) And North Korea did away with characters all together, moving entirely to hangul! (alphabet) Meh -- seems to me that simplifying characters gives you the worst of both worlds, having the high-buy-in literacy system of learning a character for each word, with only modest phonetic help, while losing the easy connection to that cultural heritage, i.e. you'll have to learn more to read well anything from pre-Communist era. Of course, that could be part of the point...
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