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> I doubt that the length of a word will have much of an effect on how
> often people will talk about what the word denotes.
Per se, no. But, as false as Sapir-Whorf is in its more dogmatic
forms, having a convenient term for something does make it easier to
talk about it. (Yak shaving is recent example from my own life.)
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