Language Twitter: is there any language whose writing system is a greater disaster than Japanese? Since this is necessarily subjective, let's say by the definition of hours required for a fluent native speaker to master reading and writing.
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(For people not familiar, Japanese has two identical syllabaries, plus the roman alphabet, plus a few thousand required Chinese characters, each with multiple readings and unrecognizable calligraphic forms. It's a little rich)
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Akkadian has more than one syllabary PLUS logograms.
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