Poll: referendum in Japan on ending kanji
 

my japanese partner really thinks kanji is inconvienant it's often double or triPle work on paper and computer.

Japan should have a referendum and get rid of kanji immediately, or not？

Opinions on this are welcome

I have stock in Twitter and the Japanese have a huge advantage when it comes to kanji and twitter with a 155 character limit. I don't want that to go away and have the Japanese people dump twitter for something else! So my answer is, no.

if that where true the rest of the world which do not speak Japanese would have dumped twitter already ,also twitter could just expand it's max wordcount easily if this happend

Tell your partner to learn more about Japanese language mechanics, as, quite obviously, his knowledge in this respect is limited.

Yup! The Japanese should definitely dump the characters they've been using for thousands of years due to your friends inconvenience.

Hahahaha.

No.

This has come up before.
I have also seen plenty of the "Japan should abandon hiragana, katakana, and kanji and switch to romaji!" opinions.

If you believe this, it is because you do not know enough of the language to see what a horrible and awful idea it is... And how much harder reading would actually become as a result.

Simple enogh, here is one sentence from asahi.com I took

住民からは「事故が収束せず、いつ帰宅できるかわから ない状況では、避難が長引くほど精神的な苦痛は強まる 」と批判の声があがっていた。

And when we eliminate the kanji
じゅうみんからは「じこがしゅうそくせず、いつきたで きるかわからないじょうきょうでは、ひなんがながびく ほどせいしんてきなくつうはつよまる」とひはんのこえ があがっていた。

AND for you illiterates who thinks that this world should only be represented in some form of English text:
juuminkarawa ( jikogashuusokusezu , itsukitadekirukawakaranaijoukyoudeha , hinanganagabikuhodoseishintekinakutsuuhatsuyomaru ) tohihannokoegaagatteita .

nuff said....

I hate to correct in a place like this, but 帰宅 is きたく. :)

Thanks for correcting... more reasons to have kanji...... :)

lol,,,
a good statement...
I just started to learn the language, so please, please tell your friend not to push out Japanese characters, because of his "inconvenience" that is...


:p Sorry, but I had to comment on this:D :D :D