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>People have a habit of automatically doing this

Which is also tied into a discussion a few days ago, how the most common verbs (e.g. be) are much shorter and irregular in most languages -- because they are fetched from a direct, small, cache of readily usable forms, and not supposed to be derived from the general rules (e.g. adding -ed) like common verbs (which is slower).




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