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CCIP · 01-11-12, 01:59 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabun_code

Basically, they did not use kanji, but relied on kana. Japanese doesn't use only kanji in its writing, but also the parallel katakana/hiragana syllabaries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana

I assume there were rules in the Wabun code to resolve the occasional ambiguities, but otherwise Japanese doesn't really need kanji to be intelligible for military purposes.

01-11-12, 01:59 PM	#2
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabun_code Basically, they did not use kanji, but relied on kana. Japanese doesn't use only kanji in its writing, but also the parallel katakana/hiragana syllabaries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana I assume there were rules in the Wabun code to resolve the occasional ambiguities, but otherwise Japanese doesn't really need kanji to be intelligible for military purposes. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)