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by GeneralMayhem 1049 days ago
Understanding should be much easier, for the same reason humans (e.g. children, foreign-language learners) can always understand more than they can say: human language is fairly low-entropy, so if there's a word you don't understand, you can pick up most of the meaning from context. On the other hand, producing natural-sounding language requires knowing every single word you're going to use.