Anton Sherwood atoli baitili:
> Then how many
> words does a Chinese speaker need to remember? Do they
> need more learning than English speaker? No absolutely
> not, they don't remember them all, they just remeber
> few thousands characters, and compose all the words by
> self. All the benefit come from 'tone'
You describe a benefit of productive compounding; it would
be
no less effective if the roots were CVCV without tones.
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FREEZE!!!!
i'm already on the niche.
so stop giving other people MY ideas!
now turn sloooooowly 180° and run back where the heck you've
come from!
Mathias
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