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		ginko on Oct 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and livin... Japanese also having commonly used phonetic writing systems makes it easier than Chinese in my book.

mrob on Oct 2, 2020 [–]

But Japanese has fewer phonemes than Chinese, and no real tones, which results in a large number of homophones, which makes phonetic writing harder to read. It's not appropriate for business communications.

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