Timeline for How could a language that uses a single word extremely often sustain itself?
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| Oct 30, 2016 at 7:39 | history | edited | NoDataDumpNoContribution | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 30, 2016 at 7:37 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | @Azor-Ahai I think you are a bit overly critical here since the OP hasn't exactly given a definition of when two words are different to him, but I will add a comment to make that clear, so thanks for your comment. | |
| Oct 30, 2016 at 7:07 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | -1 for saying "[a word] could mean like 9 different things depending on how the syllables are spoken" because that's what makes words different words. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 11:24 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | Re the first point: in tonal language (e.g. Chinese/Vietnamese), words with different tones are different words! Calling them “the same word, spoken with different intonation” is like describing hat, hot, hit, and hut as “the same word, spoken with different vowels”. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 0:10 | comment | added | cbh | On the point of repetition, this is actually a fairly common component of a lot of languages, called reduplication. It's especially common in Pacific languages. | |
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| Oct 26, 2016 at 11:15 | history | answered | NoDataDumpNoContribution | CC BY-SA 3.0 |