• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Similarly, people who speak and read chinese struggle to read entire sentences written in pinyin.

    Because pinyin was implemented by the Russians to teach Chinese to people who use Cyrillic characters. Would make as much sense to call out people who can’t use Katakana.

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      9 hours ago

      More like calling out people who can’t read romaji, I think. It’s just not a natural encoding for most Japanese people, even if they can work it out if you give them time.