On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:56:06 -0700, "Bryce"
<fukuzzz@takethisout.hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on
going with:

>Well if you can read katakana, then you can surely read hiragana. No?

No. Gaigins can only read katakana. This is common knowledge.
>
>I must be missing something here.

Perhaps, but nothing worth worrying about.