Timeline for Kanji 何: why is it missing in 今なにしてる (facebook text in status editbox)?
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| May 24, 2012 at 0:26 | comment | added | Matt | Re the second point, note that it is fairly common to write "今、何してる" but less common (still not unheard of) to write "今、なにしてる". I have always understood this sort of thing as being due to vague aversion to "writing two kanji letters in a row when they do not form one word", as Tsuyoshi explains. Inserting a comma between them is another way of keeping them from running together. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 12:25 | vote | accept | herby | ||
| May 23, 2012 at 12:13 | history | answered | Tsuyoshi Ito | CC BY-SA 3.0 |