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I remember seeing some mention that English has by far more words than most languages. Saying "Ontology recapitulates phylogeny" in other languages is allegedl
by rubashov 15y ago
I remember seeing some mention that English has by far more words than most languages.
Saying "Ontology recapitulates phylogeny" in other languages is allegedly hard.
- iron_ball 15y agoThose three words are composed of Greco-Roman bases. Is English unique in having so many words like that? (And does anyone know the linguistic term for words made by "mixing and matching" existing roots and affixes?)
- silentbicycle 15y agoAgglutination.
- andreasvc 15y agoAgglutination is a specific kind of word formation where roots are concatenated unmodified; it happens in Turkish, some Inuit languages, and Esperanto. More generally the process of word formation is called morphology.