japanese wackiness

[rone]

I noticed that, on my Cowboy Bebop Future Blues OST box, one of the tracks listed is apparently written in katakana, hiragana, and kanji. Why would they mix the three writing systems on the same name?

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You'd think that would make sense....

[erikred.livejournal.com]

But to be honest, it doesn't.

There's a nifty little restaurant just outside a cozy little town by the shore in eastern-most reaches of Kochi where the owners have ingeniously replaced all of the kanji and katakana on the menu with hiragana. The effect is similar to reading English written completely phonetically, i.e., you want some aspirin to go with the lunch you've had to work so hard to order.

Give me the kanji any day of the week.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Bah, you pansy. It would be a blessing to read phonetically written English, once i got used to it. Then again, i'm fluent on Spanish, so that's probably an advantage (not that Spanish is perfect, what with ll and rr and gue and que, but almost).

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Look, just 'cos your puny little mind cannot instantaneously parse ideographs and complex-yet-standardizd spelling schemes is no reason to penalize the rest of us, you Harrison Bergeron-hater.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I think i'm going to insitute a "maximum height" for comments in my journal.