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Old 2004-11-22, 08:09   Link #5
Kaede Shinmiri
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Originally Posted by nerd
Fun fact: Most of Japan's first original literature was written by women. Most men were busy copying Chinese texts and women weren't allowed to be educated in Chinese, so they wrote original work in Japan's native script, hiragana.

Wee! Isn't learning fun?!
Then the dudes got jealous and churned out katakana, the spawn of satan.
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