> English is usually categorized as analytic, since we only have a few ways to change words Words can be stressed in many different ways in an English sentence

> English is usually categorized as analytic, since we only have a few ways to change words Words can be stressed in many different ways in an English sentence, and the pattern of stresses in a sentence determines much of the meaning in the surrounding context that isn't communicated by word inflections such as -s and -ed. In programming languages, this would be equivalent to marking up identifiers in different ways (using bolding, italicizing, underlining, etc) instead of using prefix, suffix, and circumfix syntax operators and punctuation.