--- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Imho it is something inbetween. More than just preference
> > but less than necessity. What about saying "will complain"?
> > Then we can keep clear of the political flamewar and get
> > the same practical results.
>
> well, for "grass radical", I can compromise. However,
>
> > > <U+76F4 in Japanese style> means straight or immediate.
> > > Please note you should not use <U+76F4 in Chinese style>
> > > if you'd like to communicate with Japanese people
> > > because they cannot read it.
> >
> > s/"cannot read"/"will complain about"/
>
> This is the point I cannot compromise at all. _I_ cannot read
> <U+76F4 in chinese style>. No one can insist that _kubota_ (me!)
> can read <U+76F4 in chinese style>. I know no native Japanese
> speakers who can read <U+76F4 in chinese style>. (I have no
> friends who major Japanese/Chinese/Korean literature). How
> about Markus' Japanese friends?
>
> Reading unfamiliar Variants is like riddle. I cannot enjoy riddles
> when I have to read serious Japanese text. Some riddles are too
> difficult to be solved.
Kubota-san,
It seems that you are overstating the difficulty in dealing with
variant characters. Consider how people learn the characters.
They don't wake up one day, knowing every character that they see.
In fact, it takes many years of study. During that time they are always
having to guess from context and learning about different ways of
writing the characters they know (e.g. handwritten vs printed forms).
The effort to understand what U+76F4 is in context is hardly that
big a challenge, compared to what the average student has already
faced before.
In Taiwan (where I live) there is a much larger number of
characters in use than in Japan, and this sort of thing will
happen to the average adult on a regular basis. It certainly
happens to me, as a non-native speaker of Chinese and Japanese.
Regards,
Jake
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