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Comment by xdennis

This is similar to linguistics. People often rank languages in terms of difficulty, but in reality complexity is just moved around.

For example in English words are often uninflected. Languages like Hungarian/Turkish have a lot of prefixes/suffixes. You'd think that means they're a lot more complicated, but in reality their prefixes/suffixes are very predictable whereas English is all over the place. Is it noninflected, disinflected, deinflected, ininflected, flected?

parent xdennis 2 years ago

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