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IMO complex grammar just creates a high barrier to being understood at all, while hiding the complexity in vocabulary allows a more gradual learning curve.
by skummetmaelk 3y ago
IMO complex grammar just creates a high barrier to being understood at all, while hiding the complexity in vocabulary allows a more gradual learning curve.
- endisneigh 3y agoWould it really be simpler if there were a language where the grammar were that you only say one word and one word only, but all expressions require you to memorize a dictionary of a billion words because they’ve decided they want their grammar to only be one word utterances?
- skummetmaelk 3y agoThe other extreme would also create a very high barrier to being understood at all.
- chc 3y agoAgglutinative languages say hi.
- mcswell 3y agoI think you meant polysynthetic languages. And you don't have to memorize all the forms of each stem, there are grammar rules that usually let you derive each form.