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Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese?

12th December 2009

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Now the Japanese language is being transformed by blogs, e-mail and keitai shosetsu, or cellphone novels. Americans may fret over the ways digital communications encourage sloppy grammar and spelling, but in Japan these changes are much more wrenching. A vertically written language seems to be becoming increasingly horizontal. Novels are being written and read on little screens. People have gotten so used to typing on computers that they can no longer write characters by hand. And English words continue to infiltrate the language.

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2 Responses to “Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese?”

  1. wheels Says:
    December 16th, 2009 at 12:09

    You neglected to include a link to the article. It wasn’t hard to find, though.

    Also, I quite like your site.

  2. Tim of Angle Says:
    December 16th, 2009 at 13:18

    Thanks for catching that. It ought to work now.

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