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Re:If English was written like Chinese (1999) by latentsea on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @08:21PM (#40580254)
So how are homophones in Japanese understood when expressed verbally?

How much trouble do you actually have with them?

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Re:If English was written like Chinese (1999) by numpad0 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:09AM (#40597589)
"Science" and "chemistry" are homophones in Japanese: We have special disambiguation reading for "chemistry", bake gaku, used only when misunderstanding is suspected.

There are numerous other examples. Those are all unnatural sounding, mostly industry/field specific, and not replacing the main homophone readings.

1: https://dailyportalz.jp/application/files/thumbnails/width64...

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