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by toolslive 4314 days ago
That's a rather "English only" view on the topic. Spelling is not a bounded problem in every language.

Some power languages (Dutch, German) have an infinite number of words, as you can take 2 nouns (fe a and b) and concatenate them to form a new one (ab means something else than ba). Some languages also have inflection....