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A set of aspects of a language that make communication easier, simpler or more compact using the inventory of a given language

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Is there any evidence to support the claim that English grammar is unusually straightforward?

When Eddie Izzard, and many other lay people, talk about complexity of a language's grammar, they usually refer specifically to the number of distinct inflections present in a language. … Examining the underlying assumption (that the number of distinct inflections reflects the complexity of a language's grammar), Finnish is often given as an example of an incredibly complicated language …
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