Is it possible that Japanese adopts romanization ?

67676   Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:57 am GMT
Is it possible that Japanese adopts romanization to replace Kanji,Hiranga etc and let this romanized Japanese become official like Vietnam did in 19th century?

Personally, I feel that romanized Japanese would be easier:)
renegade   Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:06 am GMT
It's possible, though unlikely they'd do it for political reasons. Same with any language.
38   Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:37 am GMT
It's possible but there is a price to pay -- downgrading written Japanese to a boring and colorless language. Go to extremes and try writing English in binary code and you'll know what I mean. To be simpler doesn't necessarily have to be better. The smart Japanese would have done that long ago if it were really a better solution.


"I am boring" written in Binary code:

01001001
0110000101101101
011000100110111101110010011010010110111001100111
455445   Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:48 am GMT
Personally, Japanese culture is very attractive to me. I like their animes so much. But unfortunately I failed to learn Japanese because of their complicated writing system.