Re: THEORY: final features, moras, and roots [was: it's what I do]

Nik Tailor wrote:

>Kana = side, hira = plain.  Originally, hiragana was how women wrote, as
>it was taboo for women to use kanji (a female friend of mine taking
>Japanese, upon hearing that, said something to the effect of "I wish it
>were that way now" :-) ),
I echo her sentiments, and wish it extended to males too.

Hiragana apparently came into its own when Lady Murasaki write the Genji
Monogatari, which is among the greatest literary works of Japanese, in the
beginning of the 11th century.


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Marcus Smith
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