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Given that most of the world population today speaks and writes multiple languages today, do you think that Zipf law applies to the combined corpus of the languages that you can speak?

Why?

User Arseniew
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No

Step-by-step explanation:

This is because, in today's world, it is really difficult to add foreign words to someone's native language, given that some languages already share several words or some words are really similar in two different languages, for example, wasser in german and water in english.

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