Hi, At Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:37:17 +1000 (EST), Jim Breen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course we can all (well, 99.9% of us 8-} ) whip out lists of common words > that contain non-Jouyou kanji, some of which didn't even make Level 1. > Donburi-no-don is another obvious one. I usually see kampeki written with the > "peki" in kana for this reason. (Monbushou rules.) I know the Monbushou rules. For example, newspapers admit it. However, Average Japanese people can read it and daily publications such as novels usually use the Kanji. Since I am a native Japanese speaker who live in Japan, I know not only official rules but also the real state of Japanese language. Many people think the Monbushou rules is too strict not to use Kanji. One of the role of the mixture of Kanji and Hiragana is like a whitespace between words in English. Writing too many words in Hiragana or a part ofwor ds inHiraga na isconf usi ng like this. Of course I don't insist that there are no Japanese people who like the Monbushou rules. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
