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[Anonymous No.]

I have a serious Japanese language question.

What is the god damn point of bloody Kanji?

Pic related. me trying to learn Kanji

[Anonymous No.]

That's like asking what the "point" of mountains is. It's just the way their language developed over time.

[Anonymous No.]

because homonyms

[Anonymous No.]

Makes sentences shorter, more compact.

[Anonymous No.]

The more common ones actually make reading faster and easier.

[Anonymous No.]

Op here,

well is there a system is it all unique?

[Dolor !Du1A6pui8g No.]

>>2275427
No. Look up kanji radicals.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2275421
oh so its a space saver. like contractions in English?

[Anonymous No.]

god ill be learning these forever ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>2275415
That is why.

[PC-98 !sZRLTnaRSU No.]

I believe there is a poem that explains this very point. I believe it goes:

"shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi"

Or something like that. Without kanji, the poem wouldn't make any sense. It would just be し over and over again.

[Anonymous No.]

If homonyms were really so bad, Japanese wouldn't be able to understand each other when speaking.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2275414
There's really only one thing to be said about kanji.

If you can't learn to love them like your waifu, then you will be FUCKED forever in the language.

So learn to love the little hellspawns. Because no amount of reasoning or complaining makes them easier to learn. You just gotta bite the pain and put in the years it takes.

[PC-98 !sZRLTnaRSU No.]

>>2275503
A lot of the communication is based on context.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2275503
That's why there's something called context.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2275514
>>2275503

Except that nearly every japanese homonym has a different tone to it.
A tone difference which is expressed through little symbols. Called kanji.

And yes, Japanese does have 4+ tones to accurately express homonyms. No, I'm not confusing it with Chinese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2275415
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[PC-98 !sZRLTnaRSU No.]

>>2275520
This too.