Agreed. DeFrancis (in his delightful The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy) wrote (quoting from memory) that Japanese has the worst writing system among the ch

Agreed. DeFrancis (in his delightful The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy) wrote (quoting from memory) that Japanese has the worst writing system among the character-based ones, and English the worst among the alphabetic ones. What a pleasure Spanish writing is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Language%3A_Fact_and_Fantasy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Language%3A_Fact_a...