(OT) Romanji

[Bill Baxter]

Howard Berkey wrote:
> Saaa Wrote:
>> Ah nice!
>> Would you happen to know whether Japanese people mind reading romanji iso 
>> kanji?
> 
> Interesting question.  I'm sure they prefer kana and kanji, but as for how much they actually mind romanji in a pinch, I don't know.
> 
> I do know that personally as a student of Japanese, I dislike romanji.  

It is definitely much harder for Japanese people to read Japanese 
written in romaji (Note: no 'n') than in kana and kanji.  I have noted 
on several occasions when I gave romaji to a Japanese person to read 
that they seemed to find it more difficult to read than I (who initially 
learned to read it in romaji) did.

--bb