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by Dylan16807 1131 days ago
Why would a small number of letters make English need more syllables?

If anything, letters being overloaded limits the number of syllables we can express.

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I was mostly just joking/pointing out that the comparison's a bit.. not to say 'apples and oranges', but a bit arbitrary, it seemed to me could just as well be comparing letter count - or even that that makes more sense as a comparison for (disregarding tone) characters, but still arbitrary, the languages just work differently.