Talk:Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai

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[edit] clean-up

I sought out the template for "this article relies too heavily on scholarly jargon, which obscures meaning from the average reader" and couldn't find it. Anyway, that is my problem with this article, and in point of fact with a lot of the linguistics-related articles I've come across on Wikipedia. I have a pretty good understanding of the structure of the Japanese language, and the terminology involved (e.g. kana, mora, different kinds of verbs, shinjitai, kyujitai, manyogana), but I'm no linguist. And the vast majority of this article is completely incomprehensible to the average reader who lacks extensive knowledge in one or both of those fields.

• Kanazukai is a redlink, and not explained in this article, leaving the introduction almost completely useless and meaningless.
• I can figure out what a dieresis is from the context - it's the two dots above the vowel. But to say they represent "i2, e2, and o2, and assumes that unmarked i, e, and o are i1, e1, and o1." ... what does that mean? Is that something a linguist would understand?

I hope we can fix these problems in this article, and in others, so as to make it easier for someone like myself, with an interest in how languages compare, but no interest in the dense and dry technical jargon of formal scholarly linguistics, to be able to enjoy and learn from Wikipedia articles on the subject. LordAmeth 01:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)