I already know that romaji is the conversion from those to the roman alphabet, so which are the differences or characteristics between those?
Are they used on a different context? Is one of them more formal than the others? Do they have something in common?
@Madcowe Mixing happens all the time in writing. When you're first learning the language then you're usually just going to see hiragana and some katakana.
1850 standard minimum unless that number's been changed again recently but in practice you need more to be proficient. chinese has many more that are rarely used in japanese these days
@Madcowe The government defines about 2000 for general use. So you can adjust that number yourself based on how familiar with the language you wish to be. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ek20091021mn.html
@hippietrail I have installed the Japanese hand writing recognition for Windows 7, so I don’t need to use the IME’s pad. I instead have a little window that floats above all windows, where I can write a whole line that gets recognized automatically.
@KenLi My Japanese isn’t good enough yet to even consider that ;)
for german i could only think of two questions and one of them is hotter than hot. for japanese i had lots of questions but i can't think of any more now
I'm completely frikkin useless with character encoding, so if I punch out some japanese in a file in vim, save it and run mecab on it, the output is garbled.
Also, I learned this recently, you can make any katakana small by typing an x before it with, that's how you do all the magic katakana for which there are no hiragana equivalents.
計算機科学 is in my dictionary as “computer science”.. Although I usually write “computer-gaku” in katakana, but I didn’t remember how to katakana-fy it correctly, so I just looked it up and found those kanjis instead :P
Part of the issue is that the terms aren't standard internationally, even other the english speaking world hasn't settled on the relative meanings of "computer science", "computer engineering", "software engineering", and "information systems"
replace "computer" with "computational" and you get a few more
Yeah you see that a) actually sounds interesting and b) might actually contribute something
I did a shitty little plugin for Eclipse that barely worked. The only thing it succeeded in doing is immunize me against Java for the rest of my natural life.
I already know that romaji is the conversion from those to the roman alphabet, so which are the differences or characteristics between those?
Are they used on a different context? Is one of them more formal than the others? Do they have something in common?
