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Are there too many words?
The English Language is about to get its 1,000.000th word.
The average person uses less than 14,000 words. That leaves a lot of redundant words.
French and German have about a 10th of what we have.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews /5493366/One-millionth-English-word-to-be-unve iled.html
Should we have a purge and ban anymore stupid words like 'noob' or 'chiconomics'?
The average person uses less than 14,000 words. That leaves a lot of redundant words.
French and German have about a 10th of what we have.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews /5493366/One-millionth-English-word-to-be-unve iled.html
Should we have a purge and ban anymore stupid words like 'noob' or 'chiconomics'?
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Why don't you lefties just pi55 off to a country you like, you obviously hate it here, you never mis an opportunity to slag the place off, I'd move if I where you guys, surely you owe yourselves a break from this torture. I've heard Cuba is still practising Communism, you'll love it there, Castro lives in a council house apparently!
Jno, I'd say it's vastly more likely that we'd be speaking Russian rather than German, if the Americans had not (finally) stepped into World War II.
Mind you, they never thank us for the indubitable fact that - if it hadn't been for the major British involvement in settling America - they would now be speaking French or Dutch!
Mind you, they never thank us for the indubitable fact that - if it hadn't been for the major British involvement in settling America - they would now be speaking French or Dutch!
a fair point, Quizmonster. On the whole, I'd sooner speak German, if only for the opportunity to use words like Hottentottenpotentatentantenattentat, which I am assured is an attempt on the life of the aunt of a Hottentot potentate.
A million English words and still nothing to cover a situation like that. Incidentally, I see the definition of a 'word' in question requires it to be used in written form 25,000 times - in which case I wonder if words such as 'definately' have been included?
A million English words and still nothing to cover a situation like that. Incidentally, I see the definition of a 'word' in question requires it to be used in written form 25,000 times - in which case I wonder if words such as 'definately' have been included?
