Oh, is English supposed to be sane? I hadn't noticed. You're right, of course: I was using "unbounded" in a loose fashion. There are a finite number of phoneme

Oh, is English supposed to be sane? I hadn't noticed. You're right, of course: I was using "unbounded" in a loose fashion. There are a finite number of phonemes used in English, and I suppose there must be some upper limit to the number of phonemes in a word.