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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by tasogare on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:51PM (#22870630)
Ridiculous comment. The Japanese writing system as a lot of issues, but visual elegance is not one of them. On the contrary the mix of different kind of characters is really convenient to easily parse sentences and give limited information about word origins. It also provides endless possibilities of word plays.
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by adev_ on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:04AM (#22875302)
> On the contrary the mix of different kind of characters is really convenient to easily parse sentences

There is also an advantage that most foreigners do not realise. The mix of Kanji, Katakana, Hiragana create natural delimiters in the sentence and make spacing useless.

Reading Japanese fully written in Hiragana is currently much harder due to the lack of delimiters between words. The mix of hiragana, katakana and Kanji allow a very high density per character.

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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by Koshkin on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:43PM (#22873930)
Indeed, mixing different shapes as letters makes reading text much easier. Blackletter, on the other hand, while beautiful in its uniformity, is notoriously hard on the eyes.
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