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Tuesday, 11. November 2003
Thinking of learning Japanese? Don't!
bmacd
16:43h
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html A very well written essay on why not to learn japanese. Hiragana is used to spell out Japanese words using syllables. It consist of many letters, all of which look completely different and bear absolutely no resemblance to each other whatsoever. Hiragana were devloped by having a bunch of completely blind, deaf, and dumb Japanese people scribble things on pieces of paper while having no idea why they were doing so. The resulting designs were then called "hiaragana". The prince who invented these characters, Yorimushi("stinking monkey-bush-donkey") was promptly bludgeoned to death. But don't worry, because you'll hardly use Hiragana in "real life". ... Comment |
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