: The citation misses the point by excluding the sentence that comes right afterwards: "Thereby it separates integral parts of the written language." - and whether it's an accurate criticism or not is not really important -it's importnat whether it is being criticised on those grounds or not. I wrote most of the article, including the criticism, which I've gathered mainly on the usenet group sci.lang.japan. Do a search and read some of the long threads about the subject.