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A 'Kanjiaboo' is someone who is either native Japanese, or studying the language, who is fanatically stubbornly defensive of the continued existence of Kanji as an every-day tool of the written language of Japanese.

These pious advocates will claim Japanese cannot function without Kanji due to homophones, ignoring that many other languages function just fine on context alone, or that the kana scripts cannot work because they're hard to read, ignoring that Japanese could adopt word-spacing at literally any time.

Another claim is often that "too much kana is hard to read", because somehow they presume it's more difficult than English or any other phonemic script.

They may also claim Japanese couldn't function as a 'technical' language without kanji, because kana-only technical terms would be unwieldy.

The only problem here is that it ignores languages like German, and also ignores the biggest elephant in that linguistic room of all: LOAN WORDS.

Note that English is a crude Germanic tongue wearing the mutilated remains of other languages it has encountered. Dependent on definition you can say English is in the whole a language of 'loan words'.

The above criticisms imply Japanese is fundamentally a broken language, and it's speakers incapable of functioning even though there is no kanji in the spoken language.

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