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		disruptalot on Aug 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If English were written like Chinese (1999) 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 on Aug 21, 2016 [–]

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.

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