• Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 month 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.

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      1 month ago

      Ruby is literally Japanese. It was invented there. Plus a Danish guy popularized it outside of Japan. Like how weebs spurred interest in Japan and the Japanese language outside Japan.

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      1 month ago

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

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      1 month 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)