/lit/ - Literature

Why is the japanese language so primitive?
>dokidoki
>wakuwaku
>mofumofu
>fuwafuwa
>peropero
>girigiri
>barabara
>shirashira
>perapera
>dondon
Look at these examples of onomatopoeic baby words. They are analog to words like "doodoo" or "weewee" in english, which no adult english speaker would use in formal conversation. However in japanese they are proper words and have no formal alternative.
Japanese also relies heavily on context ("reading the kuuki") because the grammatical structures alone are extremely vague and don't grasp meaning in any way that would be acceptable to someone used to speaking and thinking in indoeuropean languages. This is also the reason why japan has never produced any noteworthy philosophers and the highest linguistic achievement japan is known for is calligraphy, the artistic drawing of kanji.
It's no surprise that people who learn japanese beyond what watching anime teaches you take pride in it because they think a lifetime of memorizing the most inefficient alphabet humanity has ever produced is a comparable achievement to understanding philosophy and logic and appreciating the complex prose of world (indoeuropean language) literature.