Gregory's ServerThere have been efforts to replace Japan's writing system with something "simpler." Indeed, one group fought for over a hundred years to replace kanji and the kana syllabaries with Latin characters. Here's why they ultimately threw in the towel.
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 @nikunashi Idk, strings of pure hiragana are pretty hard to parse, at least in reading. Some kind of delimiter would come in really handy, if Japanese is to become a kana-only language. |
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I wouldn't necessarily go with romaji (and apparently no one else either), but dumping kanji would certainly simplify things a heck of a lot!
If Japan went with a just a kana based system it would be so, so much easier to learn. Switching to single blocks for the compound syllables could even retain a lot of compactness.
The added complexity is glaring when you compare it to learning Korean.