Imagine having to reach a word count for an essay in a polysynthetic language,(reply>), and not only polysynthetic tho i think if the language we use to write an essay is highly synthetic whether it's fusional like Russian or agglutinative like Turkish, we shouldn't count words because they usually make many independent words of more analytic languages into marks as affixes or inflections, which unfairly needs more time to reach the count.,(reply>), imagine doing that in Navajo or like Chukchi... omg,(reply>), Write me a 3-word essay,(reply>), prob you would have a morpheme count,(reply>), I speak Brazilian Portuguese, not a polysynthetic language, but my teachers always wanted a minimum line count.