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Name: Anonymous 2007-11-28 21:05

Does it have any purpose? It looks like an interesting language...but nobody really speaks it.

Name: Anonymous 2007-12-29 19:42

>>66

Arabic has 2 million words. That's roughly 10 times as many as in English.

You can spout out crazy numbers like that out of context, but that only makes you an impressionable, ignorant moron. Words in Arabic are constructed from general roots depending on the Class of the word, the vowels you throw in there, etc.

The declension in Finnish has a similar effect. Instead of learning several thousand words, you can learn a couple of hundred endings and apply them to the words you know. You won't even have to learn "2,253", since a lot of them build upon each other. Like Kanji/Hanzi: you don't have to learn thousands of them as if each is a completely new alien symbol or some shit--they're mostly made up of a couple of hundred radicals or other Kanji. Additionally, why the fuck would you need to learn ALL of them? There are fuck knows how many tens of thousands of obscure Kanji, when you can get by just fine with 2,000.

tl;dr: You're all ignorant fucks. God damn. Put some thought into things instead of being awed by BIG SCARY NUMBERS.

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