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**VowJoyday** · 10-09-2006, 07:00 AM

Actually, you're both right. Kateyph was using simplified Chinese characters for "Kenshin" and you were using Japanese kanji. China uses a simplified form of characters in an effort to increase literacy based on the idea that simplified characters are easier to learn. Japan based their writing system on Chinese characters a few centuries ago when trade first began between the two nations and was popularized by one individual in the nobility (can't remember his name though). Some Chinese characters remain the same while others were simplified but, in my view, they should have just stuck with the traditional characters. Just some food for thought .

Simplified Chinese are ungly

I learned both when I was a kid, but I'm more fond of Traditional Chinese just cuz the strokes are much prettier. And I haven't found a person who writes calligraphy in Simplified Chinese, just cuz they're butt ugly, lol Though I agree with the effeciency of it, I mix them up every now and then when I write.

And 浪客剑心 is the Chinese title るろうに剣心 and if you write out るろうに is actually 浪客. Why did they use hiragana for it anywayz, I think the Kanji are better.

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VowJoyday Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 532 Senior Member	Actually, you're both right. Kateyph was using simplified Chinese characters for "Kenshin" and you were using Japanese kanji. China uses a simplified form of characters in an effort to increase literacy based on the idea that simplified characters are easier to learn. Japan based their writing system on Chinese characters a few centuries ago when trade first began between the two nations and was popularized by one individual in the nobility (can't remember his name though). Some Chinese characters remain the same while others were simplified but, in my view, they should have just stuck with the traditional characters. Just some food for thought . Simplified Chinese are ungly I learned both when I was a kid, but I'm more fond of Traditional Chinese just cuz the strokes are much prettier. And I haven't found a person who writes calligraphy in Simplified Chinese, just cuz they're butt ugly, lol Though I agree with the effeciency of it, I mix them up every now and then when I write. And 浪客剑心 is the Chinese title るろうに剣心 and if you write out るろうに is actually 浪客. Why did they use hiragana for it anywayz, I think the Kanji are better.
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