@pluralistic well shit. Now I feel kinda bad for posting youtube.com/watch?v=u_4adkAymr in response a few times.

But also, that explains why I could almost read it without much effort (kids use fewer kanji, which are like letters, words, or phonemes — parts of words with meaning when combined? Idk, I’m not a linguist, just a long covid addled dweeboid with insomnia)