Talk:Japanese/Japanese writing system

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Hokay, We used Japanese:Basic Japanese sounds to introduce people to the concepts of mora and the fact that each mora has a single kana character. (Except for the compound mora)

Now, this writing system page is supposed to gently introduce the reader to the concept of three writing systems. Then maybe link off into specialized Hiragana/katakana and Kanji pages.

My complaint is this - You wanted to delete these specialized pages because there were already pages for this stuff in wikipedia. But the wikipedia articles are meant to be basic raw information, not suitable for teaching. Our pages need to teach, therefore they have to take a different approach. This is why I'd vote for keeping the writing system pages, move the extra info on this page to those pages, and keep this page as a simple intro to the writing system. I'd like to hear your arguments for/against. GoodStuff 16:42, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

is it "yi/ye" or "wi/we"? As a seminative speaker of japanese I was taught that it was yi/ye and the charts from my time had them it the "ya" column. Now all I can find are charts with them in the "wa" column. Am I just insane?

After all, "yido" (well) sounds a lot more like "ido" than "wido"; and nobody ever spells the old name of tokyo "wedo".