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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: What is a byte
Message-ID: <970@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 12:04:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.970
Posted: Wed Aug 19 12:04:53 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 01:37:03 EDT
References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <6252@brl-smoke.ARPA> <479@sugar.UUCP> <51@piring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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Keywords: Kanji, Romaji, homonymy

In article <51@piring.cwi.nl> lambert@cwi.nl (Lambert Meertens) writes:
>There seems to be a good reason for [using Kanji]: after romanization,
>words written differently in Kanji may become the same.  [Gives examples of
>Japanese homonymy]

The romanized form is phonetic, right?  I presume that Japanese speakers can
understand each other when conversing by telephone; doesn't this have the same
level of ambiguity?

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint