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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They are called furigana, and they are a life-saver!
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Yup. Furigana are at the same time an admission of despairing linguistic lunacy and an utter delight of linguistic sanity and generosity.
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I can do you one better: The glosses can be used to make subtext explicit, which may end up as kanji written over other kanji (or kanji written over kana!). Ex: This character says "you have to acknowledge reality" out loud (gloss), but by "reality" he means "your own crimes".pic.twitter.com/GIspIMQapU
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