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by Terr_ 4399 days ago
> There are about 120,000 words in English [...] That includes 2.0736e+20 combinations

You forgot using common sense: The number of words most people will actually choose to use is far fewer.

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It sounds like you stopped reading my comment after the first paragraph. I later accounted for the reality that people have limited vocabularies.