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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that we can put words together to form new words. So say I produced a yogurt at a lake(sø) , I could call it søyougurt. It's not a word that would be in a dictionary though, but lots of that kind of words aren't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe within one syllable then?

I mean, I'm not looking to defend this diagram, I have no idea if it's correct. And frankly I would be surprised if it is anything more than an approximation, since language is always messy.