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Would it really be simpler if there were a language where the grammar were that you only say one word and one word only, but all expressions require you to memorize a dictionary of a billion words because they’ve decided they want their grammar to only be one word utterances?

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Agglutinative languages say hi.

I think you meant polysynthetic languages. And you don't have to memorize all the forms of each stem, there are grammar rules that usually let you derive each form.

The other extreme would also create a very high barrier to being understood at all.

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