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Leon (User)

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Re:Please help 15 Years ago

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There are a few things like this in the Language I have also noticed, can't think of them off the top of my head but have a A4 page I have of EH!? WHATS WITH THAT!?

The wa/ha situation is because that wa is actually a particle of a sentence not a letter in a word...

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Konnichiwa
There is a rule for writing hiragana "wa" and "ha." When "wa" is used as a particle, it is written in hiragana as "ha." "Konnichiwa" is now a fixed greeting. However, in the old days it was a part of sentence such as "Today is ~ (Konnichi wa ~)" and "wa" functioned as a particle. That's why it is still written in hiragana as "ha."

Hope that explains it some what.