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jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I mean, among people who are proficient with IPA, they still struggle to read whole sentences written entirely in IPA. Similarly, people who speak and read chinese struggle to read entire sentences written in pinyin. I’m not saying people can’t do it, just that it’s much less natural for us (even though it doesn’t really seem like it ought to be.)

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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- jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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