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.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 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.

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 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)

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 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

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 21 points 1 month ago

Clojure, a simple grammar but most of the vocabulary is imported from another language.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Forth

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can't imagine there is any. You need to learn three scripts to read Japanese fluently IINM. Katagana, Hirigana and something else... Probably someone who speaks Japanese can say.

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[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

The something else is called kanji, and are very complicated characters stolen from China with many meanings and pronunciation. Learning Japanese is very 楽しい (it is really)

[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

just as a point of contention, english also has two character sets (compare A and a), and english doesn't even do anything with that, the capital letters exist for purely frustrating reasons

[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

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