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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.

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

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.

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

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