I want to preface what I'm about to say with, I don't want to discourage the creation of any tools because I think making anything is awesome. I'm sure this took time and effort and I respect that, especially as someone who can't code or program in any way shape or form. In that respect, good job.



But... what exactly is the purpose of this tool? Basically, romanizing Japanese text serves absolutely no purpose in translation. In fact, if someone who knew Japanese (as I assume most people looking to translate do) used this tool to romanize a text, it would actually make it HARDER to translate, not easier. I'm not amazing at Japanese or anything, but I can read intermediate texts with kana/kanji, and I have to tell you that I have an incredibly tough time reading Japanese when it's transliterated in the roman alphabet. Kanji provides context for what two words that sound the same actually are. For example: 昨日 and 機能 are both romanized the same, as " kinou " but one means yesterday and the other means function/feature. The only way to tell which is which is their kanji. If you take the kanji out of the equation, they sound the same and can't be translated accurately. And Japanese has countless words like this where kanji is the only way to differentiate between multiple words (sometimes 5 or more) that sound exactly the same



I guarantee you that no good translation has ever relied on romanization of a text. It doesn't even make words any easier to look up in a dictionary because you mostly can't look up grammatical conjugations, most of which change a word by attaching at the end of the basic form of a word, without dictionaries getting confused. So even then, if you could somehow not read kana or kanji, you would STILL have to have decent knowledge of Japanese grammar in order to even look up words in the first place because words are almost never presented in a dictionary-researchable form.



So again, I respect the development of tools greatly, and I respect the amount of time that goes into making anything like this. But I have to tell you as someone who knows some Japanese, this tool likely wouldn't be helpful to anyone outside of perhaps people who know absolutely zero Japanese wanting to translate basic menu information for themselves.

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