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> I’m just noting this so that this problem doesn’t seem totally exotic or specific to Chinese(/Japanese).

English orthography is exactly that. Exotic.

Imagine having such a strange spelling system that you have competitions where you try to recite spelling. Exotic.

Many people would consider Spanish, my native language, to be much more straightforward when it comes to spelling.

We still have spelling contests at state and nation levels.

I am from Spain and I have never heard of the national spelling contest.

I guess every word in that contest must have a v/b/y/ll or an h.

> We still have spelling contests at state and nation levels.

That’s horrible. ;)