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>>46443680
authors discretion i guess. author trying to be creative, present nuance, wordplay or like you said. this is one of those stylistic choices that makes dlab people refer to.

NSA “Declassified” Publicly Available Text On Foreign Languages
https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-spectrum/foreign_language.pdf

> The Ministry of Education in Japan has selected 1,850 Chinese characters for daily use, and ecommends the use of Chinese characters be limited to this range, if possible.
> This does not mean, however, that any written Japanese material can be read with the knowledge of only 1,850 characters.
> students of Japanese must learn about 2,000 characters along with more than 4,000 readings, while students of Korean and Chinese must learn only 2,000 characters with about 2,000 readings
> In Japanese, pitch and tone also act as distinguishing marks of morphemes, as in /hashi/ which means "edge," "chopsticks," "bridge," or "beak," depending upon pitch or tone.
> This analysis suggests that Japanese is probably the most difficult language for English-speaking students.