Keep in mind that just because she's Japanese doesn't make her an expert in it. Likewise, will you assume you can trust anyone in American with English grammar who isn't an English linguist or major? Even English professors get their grammar wrong.
Also, no, my Japanese professor who is Japanese with a Ph.D. in Japanese writes it with the kanji. It Does say in the dictionary that it's usually written with kana. But there are a ton of words like that, and it's not a rule, it just means that it's also commonly written without kanji. Keep in mind there's kanji for the vast majority of kana phrases, like chotto, yappari, etc (yes, there's a way to write them in kanji). There are also a number of particles with kanji that are no longer used. There are always those who prefer kanji, and those who prefer kana, and I'd say there's a pretty good balance in Modern Japanese.
On a related note, my English professor marked me down a couple times in my essays and "corrected" it, making it wrong. You can believe I was really pissed. I'm not saying I don't make mistakes, but correcting something WRONG? I mean, seriously, after studying linguistics and five foreign languages, broken grammar tends to stick out like a sore thumb for me.
Posted by Anonymous on Jan 26th, 2012 at 12:50 pm.
Keep in mind that just
Keep in mind that just because she's Japanese doesn't make her an expert in it. Likewise, will you assume you can trust anyone in American with English grammar who isn't an English linguist or major? Even English professors get their grammar wrong.
Also, no, my Japanese professor who is Japanese with a Ph.D. in Japanese writes it with the kanji. It Does say in the dictionary that it's usually written with kana. But there are a ton of words like that, and it's not a rule, it just means that it's also commonly written without kanji. Keep in mind there's kanji for the vast majority of kana phrases, like chotto, yappari, etc (yes, there's a way to write them in kanji). There are also a number of particles with kanji that are no longer used. There are always those who prefer kanji, and those who prefer kana, and I'd say there's a pretty good balance in Modern Japanese.
On a related note, my English professor marked me down a couple times in my essays and "corrected" it, making it wrong. You can believe I was really pissed. I'm not saying I don't make mistakes, but correcting something WRONG? I mean, seriously, after studying linguistics and five foreign languages, broken grammar tends to stick out like a sore thumb for me.