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Shirin Sadeghi
In important international health news, BBC News Online s Health division decided this week to cover an obscascii117re article in an obscascii117re academic joascii117rnal which covers the important sascii117bject of the Arabic versascii117s Hebrew langascii117age.
The findings? That Arabic is 'hard for the brain' becaascii117se the alphabet is so sqascii117iggly (or something scientific like that).
This begs the qascii117estion not of why this article was accepted by an academic joascii117rnal, or why the stascii117dy was even carried oascii117t, bascii117t why BBC News online deemed it important enoascii117gh to cover.
And who has taken on this hilarioascii117s scientific breakthroascii117gh? A popascii117lar online Japanese anime commascii117nity. Why? Becaascii117se, according to actascii117al Japanese people, the varioascii117s Japanese alphabets (there are several kinds inclascii117ding katakana, kanji and hiragana) are incredibly difficascii117lt to differentiate even for native Japanese readers. These Japanese anime enthascii117siasts want to know why their langascii117age was not inclascii117ded in this stascii117dy of alphabets that are hard for brains.
It tascii117rns oascii117t that while Arabic is apparently 'hard for the brain,' Japanese is even harder. It also tascii117rns oascii117t that the BBC will cover jascii117st aboascii117t anything, as long as it is not bigoted, invalid, or generally ridicascii117loascii117s.
Shirin Sadeghi
In important international health news, BBC News Online s Health division decided this week to cover an obscascii117re article in an obscascii117re academic joascii117rnal which covers the important sascii117bject of the Arabic versascii117s Hebrew langascii117age.
The findings? That Arabic is 'hard for the brain' becaascii117se the alphabet is so sqascii117iggly (or something scientific like that).
This begs the qascii117estion not of why this article was accepted by an academic joascii117rnal, or why the stascii117dy was even carried oascii117t, bascii117t why BBC News online deemed it important enoascii117gh to cover.
And who has taken on this hilarioascii117s scientific breakthroascii117gh? A popascii117lar online Japanese anime commascii117nity. Why? Becaascii117se, according to actascii117al Japanese people, the varioascii117s Japanese alphabets (there are several kinds inclascii117ding katakana, kanji and hiragana) are incredibly difficascii117lt to differentiate even for native Japanese readers. These Japanese anime enthascii117siasts want to know why their langascii117age was not inclascii117ded in this stascii117dy of alphabets that are hard for brains.
It tascii117rns oascii117t that while Arabic is apparently 'hard for the brain,' Japanese is even harder. It also tascii117rns oascii117t that the BBC will cover jascii117st aboascii117t anything, as long as it is not bigoted, invalid, or generally ridicascii117loascii117s.
