Re:Finnish as a world language?
by cyphar on Friday August 26, 2022 @04:27PM
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Katakana are used for far more than loan words, loan words is just the first example you learn when you first start learning Japanese.
Among many other stylistic uses, katakana are often used for native onomatopoeia and are used to write native words all the time (usually in cases where the kanji is either not well-known or to give a different feeling to the sentence -- γΊγ«γ is a good example of this).
Re:Finnish as a world language?
by glandium on Saturday August 27, 2022 @02:24AM
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Also if you go back in time a hundred years, you'll find things using katakana where hiragana is used today (to the point of having full sentences in katakana)
Among many other stylistic uses, katakana are often used for native onomatopoeia and are used to write native words all the time (usually in cases where the kanji is either not well-known or to give a different feeling to the sentence -- γΊγ«γ is a good example of this).