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>because japanese has many homonyms and kana is hard to read without spaces
These are bullshit reasons made up by weebs trying to defend their precious nihongo. The real reason kanji won't ever be abandoned is because almost all existing Japanese uses kanji, including the Japanese presently being written everywhere by all the Japanese people currently alive, and no one's going to rewrite everything to a kana or romaji at this point. What's more is I'm willing to bet that no one who actually knows kanji thinks it's big enough a deal to start taking pages out of Korea's book after all this time. Lots of kanji have intuitive readings and consistent meanings, which makes them quite helpful for reading quickly. There's all the force in the world keeping them alive and nothing holding them down.

It's not that they absolutely cannot be abandoned, it's just that they absolutely *will* not be abandoned.

Also some Japanese actually does have spaces and kana only, but it's just a stylistic thing or to help little kids read it. So you're right, you can totally read Japanese without kanji, it's just that no one who has any say over it thinks this is a big deal, and Kanji are not only convenient but also a part of the culture (as you say, tradition).

>Spoken language is the real language
You still say this in 2018, where I'm assuming a significant amount of your social interaction happens on websites like this, in text only?

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