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ragazzina ◴[26 Jun 25 16:59 UTC] No.44389166[source]▶

> Word length - At least in English and French (the languages I know best), longer words are generally considered harder.

I think in a language with a lot of similar sounds or even homophones, longer words are easier. For a beginner Chinese speaker that knows both words, hearing "chē" will probably be ambiguous, but "chūzūchē" will be parsed immediately.

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1. kazinator ◴[27 Jun 25 23:32 UTC] No.44401246[source]▶

>>44389166 #

This is mainly resolved by context. "Penultimate" is a harder word than "pen". Now that could also mean "penitentiary" in North American vernacular, or a box in which a pig is kept, but not in a sentence like "Can I borrow your pen?"

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