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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Replying to @Pinboard
I vaguely recall some video about Mongolian (or maybe Tibetan — I realize those are very different languages) which suggested it might be worse (maybe?) — I think it was “NativLang” on YouTube, but I don’t have good enough internet here to check…
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It's a disaster! A glorious cultural heritage yada yada, but not the first round draft pick if you were picking a way to write your language from scratch. I am not in the pocket of Big Character and happy to call this out
6:33 PM - 24 Dec 2019
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