[SoftTalker]

That's why kids start with "Run Spot Run" and other simple 3 and 4 letter words. They then learn the more complicated rules and exceptions as they go. It's really not a problem.

[noosphr]

Chinese kids manage with 6,000 character. Just because we normalize child abuse doesn't mean its right.

[SoftTalker]

And English speakers learn tens of thousands of words, and eventually read almost all of them by sight. I don't see where any abuse is happening.

[CRConrad]

OTOH, those 6,000 characters sound rather like child abuse to me.