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Yamato Kotoba

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Is it theoretically possible to write a Japanese text, like a short story, using only Yamato kotoba? I understand it's not a normal everyday way of using the Japanese language so I'm thinking more about a form of constrained writing. --87.18.64.165 (talk) 23:54, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots01:09, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
87.18.64.165 -- Probably if you wanted to get beyond a relatively concrete subject-matter, you would be faced with some of the same types of problems dealt with in Uncleftish Beholding... AnonMoos (talk) 05:41, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]