grabbing random words

[MonkeeSage]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> That isn't 5.75e30 words, it is the number of possible haikus. There
> aren't that many words in all human languages combined.

Doh! This is why _I'm_ not a computer scientist. I'm kinda slow. ;)

> (Note however that there are languages like Finnish which allow you to
> stick together words into a single "word" of indefinite length, sort of as
> if we could say in English "therearelanguageswhichallowyou" to
> "sticktogetherwordsintoasinglewordofindefinitelength". Such languages
> might be said to have an infinite number of words, in some sense.)

Imagine an agglutinating (sp?) programming language, heh!

Regards,
Jordan