• Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 months ago

    I was tempted to say Ruby, but based on my friends that are learning (or tried to learn Japanese), it seems like Ruby is trying to be the opposite. So not sure.

    Ruby would maybe fit with toki pona : terse, simple, predictable.

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      3 months ago

      as someone with some knowledge of japanese, japanese is extraordinarily terse, simple, and predictable. anyone who’s seen some anime should be familiar with this - there’s an incredible number of set phrases that carry a conversation in a precise way (that minimizes surprise)

    • MBM@lemmings.world
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      3 months ago

      I was going to say toki pona is not quite brainfuck but at least somewhere in that direction, with its tiny vocab