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Your comment is silly, but I can play along.

English people will say something like: Germans have a word for everything.

Many of which are just sentences with the spaces removed.

Australia’s have a lot of those too, or worse: our speech is often nothing but a handful of vowels and a swarm of apostrophes.



> Australia’s have a lot of those too, or worse: our speech is often nothing but a handful of vowels and a swarm of apostrophes.

VLIW natural language.


I love it!


Now here's where it gets interesting: there is no agreed-upon definition among experts what a word is. So there's no point in arguing about it if the thing we're arguing about doesn't even have a rigorous definition.


Enter: the morpheme




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