Anyone understand Japanese?

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I'm working on a project that involves kitchen printing. I've already come up with a way to print out Thai composite characters so now I'm moving onto Japanese and Korean.

For example, "Udon" would normally be written in Hiragana うどん but you could also write it in Katakana ウドン for essentially the same effect phonetically. Thing is, most cheap printers only support Katakana.

Is a Japanese chef going to be weirded out by inappropriate use of Katakana?
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I imagine to a Japanese person, it'll come out as well as Chinese to English translation t-shirts do to us.

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i believe Hetzer lives in Nippon. maybe ask him.
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My son knows some Japanese so I asked him.

Says he's not sure, but - "Katakana is primarily for foreign words or secondarily for stylistic purposes such as adding emphasis. It might change the vibe slightly but I wouldn't be too worried. There's a lot of nuance though which would probably require a native speaker to sift through. (This is just for single words... if you try using whole sentences in only Katakana it would be strange)".

I'd suggest trying asking at https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/ - 700,000 subscribers with an active interest in Japanese might generate a few more responses than a bunch of British bikers...
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You're probably right but the ambition with this project is definitely not "enough to get by". I'll put some serious consideration into image generation
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Katakana is for foreign words only. Because the Japanese in charge are cretins and think 'cultural sofistikation' is more important than global functionality. It's a significant part of the reason why Japan is bankrupt, shitloads of foreign businesses just won't deal with it.

Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana and Romaji. All they need is Romaji, then both the Japanese and the rest of the world could be on the same page. 1950's era fuckwads. They don't even have sensors on the traffic-lights here ffs.
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Hey, Hetzer!

In your opinion do you think it's worth the bother for me to print the various Japanese scripts? Fat Angry Scotsman suggests the chef will eye-roll anything other than Kanji.
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