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But English has an infinite number of pronunciations. I don't think any language could beat that ;)

Not literally infinite, right? Does it?

But yes, it's nice. :P

I mean, how often do you see words share a consistent pronunciation in English?

Sure but I would argue those are a countably infinite pool of words. Show me a language that has an uncountably infinite set of words to use. Then I will be impressed.

I forgot what that means, chickeneer. :P

countably infinite means that you could create a 1-1 mapping with the integers; ie you could generate an infinitely-sized list.

uncountably infinite means that you could not generate a list; no pattern generates an infinite list of all the elements of the set.

For example. The rational numbers are a countably infinite set of numbers, but the real numbers are uncountably infinite (because of irrational numbers).

Ah, okay, interesting!
Then no, I don't think such a language exists.

the thought is interesting though. A language where new words can be dynamically created, and all parties understand without updating each others core dictionary. If that makes sense.