Japanese is truly a beautiful language.
Everything from the well thought out systems of hiragana and katakana, to the perfectly balanced kanji, to the clear, almost categorical manner in which Japanese grammar sorts and communicates information within each sentence. The sounds are restrained to variants of a (ah), i (ee), u (ooh), e (eh), and o (oh), with the rare occurrence of sounds like dzu (tsu with ten ten). A lot of the words are intuitive and based on onomatopoeia, and Japanese is a great medium within which one can write poetry based on symbolism and imagery.
(Meaning itself could even be subverted with the simple rearrangement of the furigana of kanji to provide both the meaning of the kanji and the meaning of its on/kun reading (yomi). Japanese has great potential for post-modernist techniques, truly.)
The result is a versatile mixture of elegant, gracious phrases and powerful, short and sharp exclamations that pepper Japanese culture.
Posted 11 months ago with 1 noteTags: Japanese
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