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Simplified Spelling Society : The case of Romaji. |
 | | The Japanese writing system was hailed by the first missionaries to Japan as an invention of the devil (a judgment with which not all students of the language have disagreed over the years), and it was those same missionaries who made the first attempts to render into the roman alphabet the sounds of the language. |
 | | Secondly, romaji have value as fashionable chic, appearing in slogans on the twee T-shirts so in vogue all over east and south east Asia, the English mangled and the sentiments ghastly - no one who has seen a Japanese woman in her mid-twenties proclaim from her T-shirt, "We are little people. |
 | | Romaji, then, is fairly unusual in written scripts in that it is not the major, or a major, vehicle for written communication between speakers of the language. |
| www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j7/romaji.php (1574 words) |
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