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Re:The limits of my language are the limits of my world (2011) by e3xu on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @05:28PM (#8790581)
In practice, the Chinese language typically represents concepts in 2 or 4 ideograph segments. Not every possible combination is in regular usage, but the number of potential linguistic "words" is closer in order of magnitude to the 10000 choose 2 binomial coefficient, i.e. 49995000.
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Re:The limits of my language are the limits of my world (2011) by mc32 on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @07:08PM (#8790917)
So basically when they don't have a word for a new concept they devise a new one made of existing radical+ideograph+ideograph.
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