Three funny & serious reasons why I need kanji when reading & writing
Nov 09th 2011 02:52
(1) Because it looks cooler to use both kanji and hiragana than I write sentences only in hiragana.
(ex.) Wow, you can write kanji! It's so coooool!
(2) Because I can save writing space on the paper so that I can use my note book as long as possible.
(ex.) masamune = 8 letters, まさむね= 4 letters, 政宗=2 letters, Yeah, with using kanji, I can save as 4 times space as in roma-ji
(3) Because I had to pass the test I needed for any occasions, and any tests were full of kanji.
(ex.) The test says, "次の文章を読んで問いに答えよ(= Read the sentences below and answer the questions)
In order to answer the questions, I first need to understand these kanji, 次. 文章, 読, 問, and 答.
If I skip them, like "blabla の blabla を blabla んで blabla いに blabla えよ, ” I don't know what to do with the test before reading the questions.
Well, that's why I need kanji when reading & writing.
(ex.) Wow, you can write kanji! It's so coooool!
(2) Because I can save writing space on the paper so that I can use my note book as long as possible.
(ex.) masamune = 8 letters, まさむね= 4 letters, 政宗=2 letters, Yeah, with using kanji, I can save as 4 times space as in roma-ji
(3) Because I had to pass the test I needed for any occasions, and any tests were full of kanji.
(ex.) The test says, "次の文章を読んで問いに答えよ(= Read the sentences below and answer the questions)
In order to answer the questions, I first need to understand these kanji, 次. 文章, 読, 問, and 答.
If I skip them, like "blabla の blabla を blabla んで blabla いに blabla えよ, ” I don't know what to do with the test before reading the questions.
Well, that's why I need kanji when reading & writing.
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(1) Because it looks cooler to use both kanji and hiragana than I write writing sentences only in hiragana.
It's That's so coooool!
(ex.) masamune = 8 letters, まさむね= 4 letters, 政宗=2 letters, Yeah, with by using kanji, I can save as 4 times as much space as in roma-ji
(3) Because I had to pass the test I needed for any occasions ("Because I had to pass all kinds of tests" sounds smoother, imo), and any tests were full of kanji.
Thank you!
^^
(1) Because it looks cooler to use* both kanji and hiragana than to write sentences only in hiragana. [*you already used the construct "to use", so then you must use "to write"]
(3) Because I had to pass all kinds of tests test I needed for any occasions, and any all the tests were full of kanji.
Well, you are going from 8 letters to 2 characters, however, characters take up more space than Latin letters, so I don't think that you are saving 4 times as much space as in roma-ji :)
So I think I'll put the words "at a maximum" for the last edit version of this entry.
Thank you.
That's cool!
(ex.) masamune = 8 letters, まさむね= 4 letters, 政宗=2 letters, Yeah, with kanji, I can get away with using 1/4 of the space required by roma-ji >kind of a radical alteration, but something about "save 4 times as much space" feels odd to me.
Interesting!
Thank you, but to be tattooed on any place is not my taste, so I think that won't be able to be one of my reasons xD
I'll add it as (5)^^
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(1) Because it looks cooler to use both kanji and hiragana than to write sentences only in hiragana.
(ex.) Wow, you can write kanji! that's so coooool!
(2) Because I can save writing space on the paper so that I can use my note book as long as possible.
(ex.) masamune = 8 letters, まさむね= 4 letters, 政宗=2 letters, Yeah, with kanji, I can away with using 1/4 ot the space required by roma-ji.
(3) Because I had to pass all kinds of tests, and all the tests were full of kanji.
(ex.) The test says, "次の文章を読んで問いに答えよ(= Read the sentences below and answer the questions)
In order to answer the questions, I first need to understand these kanji, 次. 文章, 読, 問, and 答.
If I skip them, like "blabla の blabla を blabla んで blabla いに blabla えよ, ” I don't know what to do with the test before reading the questions.
(4) Because without the kanji you won't be able to tell the difference between some words in a really long essay due to the massive amount of homophones in the Japanese language.
(5) Because it makes it easier to find your place, too! It's harder for me to see word boundaries when it's all in hiragana...
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Well, that's why I need kanji when reading & writing.
haha
Let me see...
FLATTERING !!!
I must confess, I learnt that word by eyes, not ears, before I started to learn proper pronunciation of English.
Thank you for telling me in a fluttering way.