I used to know how to write in Japanese
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I used to know how to write in Japanese
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Re: I used to know how to write in Japanese
#23 years of Japanese in high school and I can still read hiragana 48 years later.
Re: I used to know how to write in Japanese
#3I have no trouble reading but writing kanji has become a problem. I never need to do it and I can’t remember how to write kanji I have no trouble reading.
It’s Japanese people too, to a lesser degree. My own Japanese wife has to pause to remember how to write something every now and then.
Re: I used to know how to write in Japanese
#4I have no trouble reading but writing kanji has become a problem. I never need to do it and I can’t remember how to write kanji I have no trouble reading. It’s Japanese people too, to a lesser degree. My own Japanese wife has to pause to remember how to write something every now and then.
This happens in Chinese too
Grocery lists will be a mish mash of characters and pinyin
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/~bgzimmer/jiaozi.gif
鸡, get halfway through writing 蛋, forget how to do it without a computerized pinyin input, give up, scribble it out and write dan
Re: I used to know how to write in Japanese
#5This is probably why Japan still adamantly emphasizes writing.
Written resumes/ fax machines ... remain the norm, and while this may seem anachronistic for the rest of the world (pretty much all of which uses either (semi-) phonetic scripts derived from Aramaic or from Brahmi), it makes sense after you come across the Chinese characters.
Re: I used to know how to write in Japanese
#6A similar thing happens with all kinds of iconography, from flags to logos. People can easily recognize many logos, but when asked to draw them they often can't come very close.
https://magazine.adler.co.uk/promotional-idea/we-asked-100-p...
Re: I used to know how to write in Japanese
#7Is ワープロ馬鹿 really a term used by native Japanese speakers? As far as I can tell it only really shows up in Japanese->English dictionaries and English forums (see https://www.google.com/search?q="ワープロ馬鹿"+-a+-the).
edit: s/word/term
Re: I used to know how to write in Japanese
#83 years of Japanese in high school and I can still read hiragana 48 years later.
This isn’t about the kana though.
Re: I used to know how to write in Japanese
#9I enjoyed this read, but I am noticing that people who claim to have aphantasia seem to write about themselves and their experiences an awful lot. I doubt the phenomenon is real.
Some people doubt that sun-sneezing is real, so I can entertain the possibility of being wrong. But sun-sneezing is trivial to demonstrate to doubters, and it doesn’t confer any “I’m special points.” No one would pretend to have it, unlike aphantasia.
Re: I used to know how to write in Japanese
#10This reminds me of one time I mentioned to someone I had aphantasia and their response was “how do you spell!?” Seems wild to me that some people see words in their head to spell them but I guess at least one person does. I do wonder if that means they’d have better kanji recall for writing.