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Re:Why Russians do not smile (2002) by cperciva on Saturday May 29, 2021 @12:07AM (#27322955)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevity_law
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Re:Why Russians do not smile (2002) by foldr on Saturday May 29, 2021 @06:26AM (#27324261)
This is just a statistical tendency. It doesn’t license the inference that any given long word is rarely used.
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Re:Why Russians do not smile (2002) by bradrn on Saturday May 29, 2021 @12:27AM (#27323027)
Interesting — I’ll have to look into this. Thank you!
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