| OK now I understand (I think) what Stutzman Kale was saying. Not 16,000 characters... but 16,000 EDICT entries containing non-joyo kanji. Correct me if I'm wrong. Wouldn't you also want to test in similar manner variants of the joyo-only containing words? Surely many people write even Joyo constructed compounds in a variety of forms depending on their educations level, personal preference, or when attempting to seem younger than they are. I imagine for many words the number of kanji which are written instead in kana would be a rough indication of grade level achieved. In other cases, maybe there are even regional preferences. Sounds to me though like all of these ideas would begin to exploded the number of google pings needed to fully assess a new entry. How does that impact the idea? On Jan 23, 2007, at 6:43 AM, Jim Breen wrote: >> 2. Alternative readings. There are 16000 or so non-joyo |