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I've been attempting to reduce my internet usage lately, somewhat successfully.
One nice quality of this is, from what I know, that English provides extreme word choice due to it, which can make learning another language feel so restrictive.
You are correct about word choice in English of course. I don't believe there is any language with more words. This is doubtlessly useful in your attempts to align final stops among other things or others' attempts to write poetry (although the English have always been known more for essays than poetry).
I've recently entirely rewritten this article, by the by: http://verisimilitudes.net/2018-06-06
I read this when first re-released, and I have read it again now. I see the elegance in the constant word size in unifying handling of the two cases, restricting word creation to prevent degeneration, and allowing constant access to the words relative to the next highest semantic unit. For some reason even still I'm not entirely enthralled by the idea, perhaps due to confusion over the best way to transfer and combine auxiliary dictionaries, and the extent to which this is done (or worse, would be done despite your intentions) for example by a single author. I personally don't often make new words, being content to twist definitions, but I do know of some that do.
I'm curious as to which country that is, but don't feel inclined to tell me. I've been robbed of time by my schooling, but one thing I did learn from it's that I must take mine education under my power in order to learn, and I've been learning continuously since then. I've had few teachers who were better than a book.
I live in America, in a border state (in the civil war sense), but this place is not what it once was. By the time I went to school phonics had already been replaced with whole language learning, arithmetic with number sense, and grammar intensive study with immersion and language video games. I'm now enrolled as a math major at a state university and it's clear the rot has continued to infest even these highest institutions. Textbooks don't give proof as this is too complex for the products of American education. Problems will be assigned, but worry not, the professor will strip away any insight necessary in office hours. Every course starts from ground zero because what use is abstract algebra in number theory, or probability theory in mathematical finance (I've probably had ten introductions to induction)? Why not split what used to be a first semester abstract algebra or real analysis course into two semesters, etc. etc. (sorry about talking so much off topic, as you can tell I'm rather bitter about the whole thing, likely due to not yet having overcome it)
At this point my only hope in not dying a fool is to find some way to take my time back, and to try my best to use what I've been left with better, as you say. I've always preferred books as well, I need to focus more on finishing them rather than jumping to the next one in my pile.