Mixed writing systems
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 2, 2002, 4:49 |
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On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 11:25 , Florian Rivoal wrote:
> As I wrote, the hiragana sillabary can be use instead of kanji when the
> characher you want to write is to difficult. Since women of that time
> didn't know kanji, they just replaced everything with hiragana. There is
> no technical dificulty to do it. It is just not the common use.
Don't you often find hiragana glosses in *really* tiny characters above
kanji in manga sometimes, especially for younger readers? I don't exactly
have extensive experience of manga, but I do have some in the original
language. :-p Granted, I have exceptionally bad eyesight, but it made me
wonder if manga-enthusiasts ever go around with magnifying lenses.
One of my conlangs has a mixed writing system in theory, but in practice I'
ve left off development with the alphabet. It's something I may or may
not get around to remedying.
Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofvelis.com]
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