Would it be so wrong

[james_davis_nicoll]

To try to convince people that Japanese SF novels tend to be shorter than Anglospheric SF novels because Japanese has fewer words than English? And a lot of Japanese consists of words borrowed from other languages.

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Getting in the spirit!

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

Well, "wrong" is such a subjective word...

You almost certainly have success convincing people that kanji has a very high rate of data compression and that the rate of data input would be faster because of that.

And as you can see, the above would be much shorter:
"この例を与えれば、何人かの人々は何を信じるようになる。であっても、彼らはそれを読み取ることができない場合。"

- Krin * I -like- this game! *

Re: Getting in the spirit!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

And that's another thing. Japanese writing is nothing but a series of question marks. What are they so puzzled about?

Re: Getting in the spirit!

[elsue.livejournal.com]

Following the link, it says....

"If you give an example, some people will believe anything. Even if they can't read it."

Re: Getting in the spirit!

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

The Mac OS Last Resort font is so much more fun.

At one point, the glyph representing the private-use area had a letter from Dr. Seuss's "On Beyond Zebra". They seem to have changed that to pictures of Greys and ringed planets.

Re: Getting in the spirit!

[dewline.livejournal.com]

BWAH!!!

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Obviously the problem here is those inconvenient hiragana. We need to use Chinese writing, [BAIT]where every symbol stands for a single idea![/BAIT]

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

You just made me think of the scene in that one Dan Brown book where our hero is being given Chinese characters to translate -- but out of sequence, because for security reasons they don't want him to know what he's translating. So thanks for that.

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

NNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[(Anonymous)]

That's Digital Fortress you're thinking of.

It's the first Dan Brown book I read, so I knew how execrably vile his writing was long before he was famous.

Its extraordinary badness, is the reason I haven't read a Dan Brown book since. (I guess that makes it a sort of vaccination.)

TSM_in_Toronto