The linguist John DeFrancis (author of the insightful and somewhat controversial The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy) opines (in that book, IIRC) that among

The linguist John DeFrancis (author of the insightful and somewhat controversial The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy) opines (in that book, IIRC) that among character-based writing systems, Japanese is the worst, and among alphabetic ones, English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Language:_Fact_and_Fantasy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Language:_Fact_and...