March 20, 2007 Re: New introductory D website | ||||
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Posted in reply to Howard Berkey | Howard Berkey wrote: > I have put up a web site where I have started collecting information I wish I had found in one place when I started learning D: > > http://www.d-riven.com > > Right now there are a few bits of content under the Articles and Resources sections; I hope to add more as time goes on. The focus is currently on providing information for those new to D. > I would humbly suggest a link to the keyword index: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageSpecification/KeywordIndex It provides a reference for disambiguating the separate uses of some keywords used in multiple places (sometimes a source of confusion for beginners). It is also just a useful index to the spec. -- Kirk McDonald http://kirkmcdonald.blogspot.com Pyd: Connecting D and Python http://pyd.dsource.org |
March 21, 2007 Re: (OT) Romanji | ||||
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Posted in reply to Howard Berkey | Howard Berkey wrote:
> Saaa Wrote:
>> Ah nice!
>> Would you happen to know whether Japanese people mind reading romanji iso kanji?
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> Interesting question. I'm sure they prefer kana and kanji, but as for how much they actually mind romanji in a pinch, I don't know.
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> I do know that personally as a student of Japanese, I dislike romanji.
It is definitely much harder for Japanese people to read Japanese written in romaji (Note: no 'n') than in kana and kanji. I have noted on several occasions when I gave romaji to a Japanese person to read that they seemed to find it more difficult to read than I (who initially learned to read it in romaji) did.
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March 22, 2007 Re: (OT) Romanji | ||||
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Posted in reply to Bill Baxter | How did you learn japanese, university ?
Charlie
Bill Baxter wrote:
> Howard Berkey wrote:
>> Saaa Wrote:
>>> Ah nice!
>>> Would you happen to know whether Japanese people mind reading romanji iso kanji?
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>> Interesting question. I'm sure they prefer kana and kanji, but as for how much they actually mind romanji in a pinch, I don't know.
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>> I do know that personally as a student of Japanese, I dislike romanji.
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> It is definitely much harder for Japanese people to read Japanese written in romaji (Note: no 'n') than in kana and kanji. I have noted on several occasions when I gave romaji to a Japanese person to read that they seemed to find it more difficult to read than I (who initially learned to read it in romaji) did.
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> --bb
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