sorry if this doesn’t need a post but why does japanese keyboard have slanted letters like this? this is an example sentence btw i know the letters but i wanna know why they are like kinda squished and whats the purpose of them
タベマス <– this for example why is it squished
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See here: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-width_kana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-width_kana)
In all seriousness, you could’ve just googled [Japanese squished kana](https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=japanese+squished+kana&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-jp&client=safari) and get rewarded with good answers from this sub, Wikipedia, and Quora…
We just had a post about this two days ago.