Re: Off Topic Bad English was Re: ASCII meets games

I've been studying Japanese for about a year, and its called hIragana,
with an I.  Also, the 'western' Japanese is called Romaji, or romanized,
Japanese.  That is when you use arabic characters to write Japanese such
as typing Konnichi wa.  If you have the special program you need to read
Japanese, I could show you examples of the three forms of writing the
Japanese have; Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji.  I could try to do an
ascii-art of them, but I'm not that good.  What the hell here goes
nothing....

Katakana:
	  oOo
	OOOOOooOOo
	  OOO``OOO
	  OOO  OOO
	  OOO  \OO
	  OOO

If I had done that better, it may look a little like the katakana
representing 'ka'

Hiragana

	  oOo     Oo
	OOOOOooOOo O
	  OOO``OOO
	  OOO  OOO
	  OOO  \OO
	  OOO
	   O
If I had done that a little better that could represent the syllable for
'ka' in hiragana (this character is a lot alike its katakana
counterpart, but it would be used in different situations) Hiragana tend
to be more flowing, almost more like cursive, while Katakana appears to
be more like print, stiff, and rigid.


Kanji:  First, a word about Kanji.  A single Kanji represents more than
just a syllable (maybe even several syllables) it represents a whole
word.

	   oOo
	  oO Oo
	.`````O`````.
	|____OO_____|
      ,______OO_______,
      |      OO       |
      |      OO       |
      .``````OO```````.
            OoO
	     O
fans of Dragon Ball Z may recognize that... that is read 'kame' and
means Turtle


I hope I haven't bored you too much with my lecture on the Japanese
writing system.  Someday if I have nothing to do, I may ASCIIize all 108
different Katakana plus all 108 Hiragana.  Don't expect any more Kanji;
there's 1945 in total (no one has THAT much time...)

Peter Punk wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 01:38:32 +0200, ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl (Peter Punk)
> provoked the following text:
> 
> >>there is no japanese in western writing
> >The, i was wron above, can you give me an example of haragana?
> 
> Whoops! Me and my 2-bit spellchecker... That sentence was supposed to read:
> "Then, if i was wrong above, can you give me an example of haragana?"
> --
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