What makes a language rich

This is not a question, but simply my thought along the journey of learning several languages over the years.

Straight to the point: I think English is the only language in the world where you can make up an expression/idiom and people will understand and they will even adopt it, and this makes the language insanely rich. According to my experience, English native speakers are also the only people in the world who have "high tolerance" of non-natives and can usually understand much of what foreigners say (and they don't bother to correct you). It is a language that evolves FAST, due to how many people know it and how tolerance native speakers are. Every year even every month or every day there is someone who says an interesting expression and someone somewhere in the world would pick it up.

The other extreme would be Russian, with extremely strict grammars. Even as a foreigner who learns it, people usually won't understand you easily unless you have had some immersive experience that makes you sound more native. Let alone make up your expression, people would usually react with a "huh?"

Anyways, this is my observation. Anyone found the same?

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