I'm sorry about your peanut butter FAIL, but. AHAAHAHAHAH. Peanut bits in oil = hilarious. Though maybe that's just me. Sorry, again.
Interesting phonetics stuff, too. I remember my first English classes - the most common complaint was that English words weren't spelled the way they sounded, making it IMPOSSIBLE to spell in English.
Well, they're very very small peanut bits in oil. Close enough for government work, as I like to say.
English spelling is a basket case on par with French and Irish (but still not quiet Japanese), and multiple national standards don't help. In fact, one of the most compelling reasons to undertake a spelling reform is the main reason it'll never happen: English is so international, and billions of students would thank us for getting rid of all those ridiculous silent letters, but billions of teachers, principals, government offices, etc. would scream bloody murder over having to overhaul curricula, documents, etc. Not to mention that just getting English-majority countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) on board to a single spelling standard would be miraculous; getting the twenty-something other states with legally-enshrined Official English would be impossible.
Sorry. Hanzi = kanji. Or rather, hanzi are specifically the characters as used for Chinese (either Simplified or Traditional orthography) whereas kanji are specifically the characters as used in Japanese. Most hanzi and kanji are visually the same, and some readings of kanji are based on Chinese pronunciation (granted, sometimes it's several-centuries-old Chinese) but there are some differences, too.
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Interesting phonetics stuff, too. I remember my first English classes - the most common complaint was that English words weren't spelled the way they sounded, making it IMPOSSIBLE to spell in English.
Somehow it all worked out, anyway.
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English spelling is a basket case on par with French and Irish (but still not quiet Japanese), and multiple national standards don't help. In fact, one of the most compelling reasons to undertake a spelling reform is the main reason it'll never happen: English is so international, and billions of students would thank us for getting rid of all those ridiculous silent letters, but billions of teachers, principals, government offices, etc. would scream bloody murder over having to overhaul curricula, documents, etc. Not to mention that just getting English-majority countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) on board to a single spelling standard would be miraculous; getting the twenty-something other states with legally-enshrined Official English would be impossible.
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I'm having a hell of a time with Japanese... And I get confused with
Kurai,
Kirei
Korai,
Kirai....
Gah!
But the Dyslexia thing is really interesting, too.
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