[kj] OT How does the mind work?

[FLIGHT BRINGER]

If you understand Japanese , then how come you don't know how its 
constructed and how its read and that people don t read ALL the words when 
they are reading. Do you understand  kanji? Can you read a newspaper? or did 
you get stuck on  hiragana  and Katakana ?

>From: Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>
>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the 
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>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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>Subject: Re: [kj] OT How does the mind work?
>Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 00:02:25 +0100 (BST)
>
>Unlike your English, my Japanese is just fine. As everyone on this list is 
>painfully aware, without getting yourself a 'brain double' to do the hard 
>work for you (and the simple stuff too, actually), there's no way you're 
>going to be having an intelligent conversation with anyone Peter.
>
>   FLIGHT BRINGER <flightbringer at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>   ( I meant letters, not words)
>
>
>" According to Peter, you don't need to know the meaning of the words to
>understand what he's saying!"
>But this is true, Japanese only read amount 60% of the words
>(characters) to understand the meaning of the sentence. That is how they
>speed read. But I do feel that it is beyond your grasp of understanding, a
>bit out of your depth. Learn to speak Japanese then we can have an
>intelligent discussion , until then stick to "Yawn".
>Of course you have to understand the important words, but not the
>unimportant ones
>
>" According to Peter, a character in Japanese is the same as a word"
>
>This is correct, one Japanese character is equivalent to one word in
>English. For example : "House " is just one character(letter, picture,
>drawing or whatever) in Japanese , whilst its five letters in English
>One character in Kanji (Japanese/Chinese) is the equivalent to one word in
>English.
>
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