On: If English were written like Chinese (1999)

[fenomas]

In that 口 article yesterday, several commenters seemed angry that the author referred to kanji as "Japanese characters".

So apparently this is some kind of thing, that some people take seriously. New one on me.

[rangibaby → fenomas]

"This is your brain on nationalism"

[disruptalot → rangibaby]

You can imagine being British and learning the American language. Of course people feel cheated if their culture is not credited where it should be.

[fenomas → disruptalot]

When someone in Japan, talking about the Japanese language, refers to "Japanese characters", they clearly mean "characters used when writing Japanese". They are not suggesting anything about where the characters originated.