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French isn't held back by its script, even though its script is far from great. Chinese and Japanese are definitely held back by their awful script + many peop

French isn't held back by its script, even though its script is far from great. Chinese and Japanese are definitely held back by their awful script + many people who confuse language with script.

glasslion 8y ago
Sure, anything non Anglo-Saxon is awful
- redthrow 8y ago
  Korea's hangul is pretty neat. As the linguist Geoffrey Pullum says, English has the spelling system that positively stinks, but the Chinese/Japanese writing system is a whole nother level.