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Originally Posted by jesselt
Right, except it only makes sense if you make up an example or try and justify it. No one would ever come to the conclusion that 人口 would mean population if you told them that the first Kanji means person and the second means Mouth. Never.
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But that's not the issue. Someone said 人口 does not reflect the meaning, not that "the meaning is not obvious." I was arguing that it does reflect the meaning. I never once made an argument that it would be obvious to anyone what it meant. You're putting arguments in my mouth that I never made.