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[majutsukai]

OKAY so hey I should probably post an actual update here or something. 'Cause stuff has happened and I can go into more detail here than on Twitter

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[nytyngayl]

...that whole thing with さ is weird since I went to school in Japan and no one cared. And some of the teachers wrote it that way too.

Huh.

[majutsukai]

Dunno. My teacher is a native speaker, and he makes a point of correcting us when we use it. I figure, if I get a different teacher for future Japanese classes, I'll try using it and see how each different teacher reacts. (I wasn't the only one who was doing this, so I can only assume that whoever taught the other students in this class before this quarter allowed it.)

[nytyngayl]

Well, I guess you'll have to see. It's not so hard to correct, though. My nazi Japanese teacher had me change how I did あ and ふ and it only took a week or two to get it how she wanted it. Didn't say anything about さ though. And she was one of those dictatorial Japanese native speaking teacher people.

[majutsukai]

I can only assume that it boils down to what looks right or wrong to each individual person, then

I tried googling manga-ji (or rather, マンガ字), and what came up didn't look anything like I had ever seen before.

[nytyngayl]

I can't really say. My teacher was upset that my あ looked like that (quote, "it looks like a crucifix with a fish") and she was angry that my ふ didn't have that top line on it.

[majutsukai]

I remember when I was first learning hiragana, I had the hardest time getting my あs to look right. It was mainly that third stroke that always looked weird. But then I noticed that it basically looks like a の, and once I noticed that, it became way easier to write them.

My ふs look like this and my ゆs look like this.

[nytyngayl]

Apparently, the lines have to be curved or it's a crucified fish.

That's basically what my ゆs look like. My ふs are basically that now, but I don't think it's a big deal if you write it all in one stroke.