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by seabass-labrax
567 days ago
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Excellent point; I think there is also an analogy to be made with the linguistic distinction between synthetic and analytic languages. Broadly speaking, analytic languages feature longer sentences with lots of brief, generic words, whereas synthetic languages have shorter sentences in which each word encodes a complex idea (for example, using prefixes or vowel changes). English is towards the middle of the continuum, with both analytical and synthetic characteristics. |
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