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Rimmer_Dall posted...

I believe I've seen this one posted on r/learnjapanese. I find the phonetic compounds to be as hindering as they are helpful due to the number of exceptions and tiny differences that have crept up over time due to phonetic drift.

Imagine the fun of Chinese where it almost never works in Mandarin and even when it does the tone is different so you can't read it correctly anyway. Classical Chinese had the perfect writing system for the time it was used, unfortunately we no longer live in that time and any meaningful reforms at this point are impossible due to the massive amount of print media using the current character sets (Traditional, Simplified, and Japanese). That's why when the government expanded the Joyo set a few years ago nothing was simplified, it's a technical nightmare so it's better to just go with than make new character with the "simplified" (actually one more stroke, Chinese people scratching their head to this day) .

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