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On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 06:51:45PM +0100, selpa'i wrote:
> Simply put, there aren't enough words, and the few words that
> exist do not enable us to make nuanced descriptions of the world.

I would say it's a mixture of lack of words and lack of phrasal
idiom.

Frankly, though, I consider the self-similarity of existing words,
and the vast array of accidental tongue twisters, to be more serious
problems than the lack of vocab.  The language is *physically* hard
to speak, to an extent that is distinctly unpleasent.

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