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cperciva
5y ago
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevity_law
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foldr
5y ago
This is just a statistical tendency. It doesn’t license the inference that any given long word is rarely used.
bradrn
5y ago
Interesting — I’ll have to look into this. Thank you!
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