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Re:Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exi... by GuinansEyebrows on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:33PM (#44526440)
i imagine the language may change that though. With Polish having nominally 300k-400k words compared to English's >1m, i'd guess that it's a lot easier to misdirect and fluff up your writing in English.
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Re:Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exi... by codedokode on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:00PM (#44527406)
English has over 1 million words? No way. Except for pronunciation, it is relatively simple language.
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Re:Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exi... by 0rzech on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:03AM (#44529502)
It can if you count all the different forms of each word and proper nouns. But this way Polish may have even more words, given multitude of different forms. I've never checked that, though.

There's also the tendency in English to make new words out of existing ones to create new meanings, while in Polish we often use multiple separate existing words to create new meanings.

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Re:Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exi... by ahartmetz on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:03AM (#44529504)
It has words of both Germanic and Latin origin, that's why it has so many. The fancy words are usually the Latin ones.
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