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Not true at all. There is a general tendency for languages to trade grammatical complexity in their morphology for complexity in their syntax. English is morph
by Asraelite 3y ago
Not true at all. There is a general tendency for languages to trade grammatical complexity in their morphology for complexity in their syntax. English is morphologically simple, but syntactically very complex.
Syntactic complexity isn't as easy to notice at first glance as morphology, especially if you're a native speaker. This leads to the common misconception that analytic languages like English are necessarily simpler overall.