Quote Originally Posted by blackheath
I never knew that, so you have to have had someone speak it and show you it first! :shock:
That's because we don't really have vowels (sorta), we have to know which vowel is supposed to be there. Let's read it again, shall we: we hv t know which vwl is sppsd t be thr.
Something like that

Quote Originally Posted by blackheath
...well here's another one... in China did you know that both Cantonese and Mandarin write the same but sound totally different. Therefore two people could read the same newspaper outaloud - one in Cantonese and the other in Mandarin and neither would understand the other!
I started studying Japanese way back so I know some of these quirks. Even japanese people and chinese people would be able to communicate through symbols, but not through talking.