I have a theory that languages like Japanese are purposely made complex to keep foreigners from understanding them. Another one is Arabic. The writing system is so convoluted because it was designed so that only merchants could understand it not common people.
Are some languages harder to learn/understand just by design?
Christopher Scott
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John Diaz
Arabic writing is well-suited to Arabic morphology. For the most part, it's pretty straightforward. Sure, some things cannot be deduced but only memorised, but this is true for English more than anything.
Samuel Cruz
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Joshua Sanchez
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James Adams
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Ethan Collins
>japan exists for thousands of years using basically same shit just to trigger some anime weebs at 21st century trying to understand what their waifu is speaking
Pic related is a piece of text with extreme usage of engrishu words, enjoy learning Japanese
Evan Richardson
It's true. Korea modernized their language and made it much easier while the Japs refuse to.
Luis Reed
thanks aussie brah for not mocking me like the other posters. i understand that the Koreans totally invented their writing system from the ground up. They got rid of the moon rune nonsense chinks used.
Hunter Phillips
>by design
Human languages are memetic.
Chase Sanders
Fuck off and die you stupid yank.
Ryan Gonzalez
Hiragana is very easy, I learned it in a week
James Nguyen
>writing system
lmao look at this europoor geek, tryna fucking READ ROFLL OH NONONONOON
Josiah Williams
Your hypothesis is uneducated and silly. High-class Japs were all a bunch of hipsters at some point in their cultural golden era sitting on their asses and creating/consuming art all the time. I'd be quicker to blame it on them for complicating it too much rather than some higher defensive purpose. Polish is complicated as hell too and look how well that works as a defensive measure.
Liam King
some langiages just shit
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(the only ok english- indian english)
Anthony Roberts
> The writing system is so convoluted
Except it's not. The kanjis date from like 10.000bc. Men just used drawings to represent things and created a writing system for it. Over the time the drawings were simplified and that's it.
Camden Lee
I understood all of that
Luis Powell
I've always wondered why japs use kanji
Hudson Cox
>I have a theory that languages like Japanese are purposely made complex to keep foreigners from understanding them
Your theory is bullshit and based on think air and maybe your inability to learn the language
Only China played a part in the establishment of the language, no other foreigners (especially not latin or germanic based languages) were involved
Luis Martin
Understanding Japanese grammar is piss easy if your mother language is altaic
Ian Turner
They have a lot of homonyms and can also use them to further specify something, at least on paper
Eli Wilson
>Only China played a part in the establishment of the language
yup
Alexander Wright
Your theory is convoluted because you're overthinking it.
Brayden Foster
I think learn Hiragana and Katana is not that hard. The problem is you have to learn kanji. That's the reason why Korean seems a bit easier to learn.