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> In Vietnamese, every word is a single syllable Would you consider "sân bay" to be two words but "airport" to be one? If so, then that's just an artifact of t
by yorwba 6y ago
> In Vietnamese, every word is a single syllable
Would you consider "sân bay" to be two words but "airport" to be one? If so, then that's just an artifact of the writing system. After all, it could just be "sânbay" and "air port". There are no spaces in speech.
- knolax 6y agoYes but what he's really talking about are morphemes. English has many multisyllabic morphemes where as Vietnamese has few.