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by gizmo686
3688 days ago
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I wonder how relevant technology has been to the reduction in kanji. It seems like the technical difficulties in adding kanji pale in comparison to the social difficulties of teaching the new kanji to the public; especially when you realize that this is the language that gave us emojis. Further, my lay understanding of Japanese history is that their have been many attempts to reduce or eliminate kanji usage. |
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Actually IMEs have led to a resurgence in kanji usage. A lot of words that normal people could not (and were not expected to) write in kanji are now used online every day, to the extent that grade schools now teach them as kanji to appear on reading tests but not to be graded in handwritten essays. The most famous example of these "read only" kanji is 鬱 ('utsu', depression or melancholy), introduced to the school system in 2013 (iirc).
Also words that can be written in either kanji or kana but with a preference for kana in modern edited text are often written in kanji online (like 或いは instead of あるいは).