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Originally Posted by Billi
But English has quite the opposite reputation: it is said to be one of the most economic languages in the world as it has - comparably - few grammar rules and also uses only - relatively - few words as many of its words have many (different) meanings. I would have thought that e.g. French and German had far more words.
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There is a general rule in languages that the larger the vocabulary the simpler the grammar. Homophones, homographs and homonyms are actually different words that just happen to look and/or sound like each other.