This may be true from a pronunciation standpoint, but he's mostly writing from a text processing standpoint. From a text processing standpoint, Russian and English are pretty easy to deal with.
On the other hand, it's a bit funny to point those out as easy to deal with, because they are bicameral alphabets, with notions of upper and lower case, case mappings, title casing rules, and the like. That's a complex system, that if you didn't grow up with it and already have had to deal with and come to terms with it, you would probably include it in a rant like this.
On the other hand, it's a bit funny to point those out as easy to deal with, because they are bicameral alphabets, with notions of upper and lower case, case mappings, title casing rules, and the like. That's a complex system, that if you didn't grow up with it and already have had to deal with and come to terms with it, you would probably include it in a rant like this.