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Originally Posted by Sumeragi
To consider Japanese as the equivalent of Korean is the thought of those who do not know both languages and focus only on superficial aspects.
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Languages evolve daily, Japanese is no exception. It'd certainly be a lot harder for the Japanese to do it (stop using kanji) but the fact that it's not static already (in both spoken and written forms) means that it's possible that they could drop Kanji one day. The likelyhood of which depends on how hard they want to try.
Obviously context is present when having a spoken conversation, not to mention nuances and speaking patterns. But the written language in only kana gets very confusing because of the many ways you could interpret any given set of hiragana characters. Context in that regard really only goes so far considering the sheer amount of dependency Japanese has in Kun and On'yomi not to mention
how many words are in a language. Perhaps you might have to know and get used to how the language works before this really sinks in.