There's also emoji (picture symbols) and teikeibun (set phrases) that make
messaging easy. If I wanted to say "Shall we go by taxi or train?" I could just
write:
[taxi emoji] ? [train emoji] ?
Four characters, quick and easy.
r e n
George Ritter wrote:
> Intensely interesting. Does anyone have a list of these shortened Japanese
> phrases and words?
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]
> On Behalf Of Renfield Kuroda
> Sent: 07 September 2000 14:32
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Entering text on japanese phones?
>
> Sauli Hirvi wrote:
>
> > Well katakana and of course romanji shouldn't be too hard to input
> > on phones. I don't live in japan, but I'd imagine that you wouldn't use
> > kanji to write sms/chatting, am I right?
> >
>
> Nope. Kanji is also quite liberally used -- mostly because it saves cost: a
> single kanji character is cheaper than expressing the equivalent info in
> multiple hiragana/katana characters.
>
> And users definitely are thinking about cost-savings; there's a bunch of
> shortened Japanese phrases and words that are becoming more popular b/c
> they're
> cheaper and easier to send in a text message.
>
> r e n
>
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> e-business technologies | engineering and strategy
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