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Old 2004-02-09, 01:02   Link #51
Mr. Bushido
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Quote:
Originally Posted by TangentZ
You are veerrrrrrryyyyyyyy confused.

Japanese is also left-to-right when written horizontally.

CJK are read right-to-left when written vertically. Now, that's something not commonly found in other languages. I'll give you that.
lol i thought u meant direction to read books.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Eelco
Have a look at this page. You can get examples of ways of writing (in Japanese) when clicking the links under "reading Japanese".

Have a look at the following 6 pages as well, and probably all your questions about the Japanese language will be answered

Good luck
i dont read japanese yet, so that looks like jibberish.

If Japanese is written modern style, do they still read the book "backwards"
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