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Jeez....there's over 2 million different kanji....and they're getting at him for mispronouncing the super obscure kanji for "Discretionary Appropriations"... I mean heck, this is the system that you take the words "small" and "woman" together and you get "carburetor"...
And besides, he probably messes up less than Bush (and he was originally PM around the majority of Bush's term wasn't he?).
And besides, he probably messes up less than Bush (and he was originally PM around the majority of Bush's term wasn't he?).
Reading the headline I thought of a totally different KY and thought to myself, "I know the man's supposed to be an otaku, but isn't nicknaming him after lubricant kind of harsh?"
Esh ..It's not like he pulled a Bush move or anything, he just misread his notes. Cut the guy some slack government peoples
Well maybe Japanese is just not his strong suit. Kinda like I am not the best at English. In order to get it right I must read over my writing over and over again. When speaking to a grope I must already know what I am reading to make a good predation. I was horrifying at English but love and was good at Drama.
But being Prime Minister is a very public place to be in and he going to have to focus on speaking.
But being Prime Minister is a very public place to be in and he going to have to focus on speaking.
Jeez.
I love how that old "Japanese is difficult" copypasta has made people believe there are actually over 2 million kanji. Even Chinese has less than 100000 characters. Japanese might use... 10000 at the very most. And to be able to read a political speech Taro Aso needs to know 5000 kanji tops. He's just lazy and doesn't know his native language that well. Wouldn't be a problem if he wasn't THE PRIME-MINISTER.
I love how that old "Japanese is difficult" copypasta has made people believe there are actually over 2 million kanji. Even Chinese has less than 100000 characters. Japanese might use... 10000 at the very most. And to be able to read a political speech Taro Aso needs to know 5000 kanji tops. He's just lazy and doesn't know his native language that well. Wouldn't be a problem if he wasn't THE PRIME-MINISTER.
@TranslatorDude: Yeah, yeah, there's only 47,035 Chinese characters that are in the Kangxi dictionary, but the point I was trying to make is that there are a crap ton. To be considered competent, you need to know somewhere around 4-5 thousand (that 2 thousand minimum won't get you a government job like you've said). Now, compare that to the fact that in English you only need to know around 2000 words to be competent in every day to day speech. Not to mention the fact that kanji are only characters that are used to make up the words, not necessarily the words themselves.
The point is it's ridiculously difficult and just like English you pretty much have to be a native speaker in order to ever get it down just right. Hell, even Japan's Diet has made small discussion over the years about phasing out kanji. I find it amusing that people complain about the grammar of their representatives, yet whenever you talk to these whiners they tend to mess up on their "was"s and "were"s still...
Also, there's a lot more to being a political leader than friggin political correctness of speech. I'd rather have a guy who's competent in managing the economy and the military any day over some nut who was an English major.
The point is it's ridiculously difficult and just like English you pretty much have to be a native speaker in order to ever get it down just right. Hell, even Japan's Diet has made small discussion over the years about phasing out kanji. I find it amusing that people complain about the grammar of their representatives, yet whenever you talk to these whiners they tend to mess up on their "was"s and "were"s still...
Also, there's a lot more to being a political leader than friggin political correctness of speech. I'd rather have a guy who's competent in managing the economy and the military any day over some nut who was an English major.
@Heero: If he were making mistakes on kanji (or words even) that were college level or higher, I would understand. But I'm studying junior high kanji and I came across one of the words he misread. This means junior high kids can read it! If he can't, there's a problem!
Not to mention, WRITING kanji is a beast of a task, but reading it isn't THAT hard... I'm a high school teacher in Japan and most of my students wouldn't have made the mistakes he made.
Your first comment about putting "small" and "woman" together to get "carburetor" was about as redneck as people who say that Chinese just sounds like "chow chong chung"... do you know Japanese??? If you did, I don't think you'd make the white-boy comments that you did.
Not to mention, WRITING kanji is a beast of a task, but reading it isn't THAT hard... I'm a high school teacher in Japan and most of my students wouldn't have made the mistakes he made.
Your first comment about putting "small" and "woman" together to get "carburetor" was about as redneck as people who say that Chinese just sounds like "chow chong chung"... do you know Japanese??? If you did, I don't think you'd make the white-boy comments that you did.
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