• Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    23 days ago

    Try reading Japanese without kanji and see how rough it get with all the homophones.

    They have 3 alphabets and its called a “writing system” because of it.

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        23 days ago

        Yeah, kind of exactly the nightmare of a “writing system”. Its a dare to try to explain it in less than 10 words.