Is English an exception in how efficiently it deals with relatives by marriage (*-in-law)? Russian, for example, has at least a dozen narrowly specific words in that linguistic corner.
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Could it be that this efficiency (and many others in English) is the ultimate cause of its domination? Because Anglophones in aggregate pay the lowest cognitive-cultural taxes, in the post-Enlightenment era when such taxation started to make real difference?
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Irregular verbs otoh are very inefficient until you learn them. A thousand corner cases. English has a deep moat of those.
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