2003-01-23 18:08:32, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@...> wrote:
[...]

>makes it very clear that katakana and hiragana had totally

separate spheres of use from before the very beginning (that
is, the two systems developed out of two completely different
occasions for phoneticization).

I have read that hiragana was used by women, and katakana by
men (although I might mis-remember backwards).

Nicholas Bodley ||@|| Waltham, Mass.
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