What you heard about French being the most precise language in the world may in fact be correct.I don't know for sure, but as a spoken language, it could be true.The only two reasons for this that I can think of are, one, that the French control every new word that comes into their language.They have an official part of the government that debates new words and adds them one at a time into the official dictionary.And secondly, that they use pronouns AND very specific verb conjugation for each tense.So, usually in English you need to hear both the pronoun and the verb to know the tense, but in French they are OVERLY precise and you get both pieces of information despite the verb being conjugated very specifically for each tense.I do think they have many homonyms though, so that part of your email, I believe, is incorrect.
English is not as precise because our dictionary is not controlled.Instead, whenever a word is used often enough, be it a word from ANY language, we will add it to our dictionary.We have 500,000 to 750,000 common words and another 500,000 medical and scientific words.
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