Christopher Mahan wrote:
--- Robert rkscience100@yahoo.com wrote:
I already am having problems with Susan_Mason, who has falsely and ridiculously accused me of bigotry against Chinese people. Now, however, Stevertigo has made the same slanderous innuendo against me by saying that I am promoting "segregation" of languages! That is more than uncalled for, it is hateful.
A slanderous innuendo? Where? I missed it? Dang...
"Segregation" implies a lot, in American English. It's not a very friendly word to use in a context like this.
Kanji being the primary element of the written language of the second largest world economy, of a technologically advanced and pionering nation where the internet is concerned, and the official writ of 140 million people, I dare say that blaming people for using it is narror-sighted at best.
I disagree completely. Should we go over to the Japanese wikipedia and start writing in romaji and then accuse the Japanese of being "narrow-sighted at best" if they don't care for it?
On a more serious note, Robert, how would you feel if the Internet had been createdn by the Soviets, and the ligua franca was Russian, and the script was cyrillic, would you not want to sign your own name the way your parents meant for you to rather than with less-than perfect cyrillic approximations?
I for one would not. If I were writing in the Japanese wikipedia, I would write my name in katakana, as a gesture of professionalism, kindness, and respect.
But this is all pretty irrelevant, isn't it? Stevertigo is not doing this to preserve the traditions of his parents, but to be cutesy.
--Jimbo