On Tue, March 26, 2013 16:08, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I dunno - I don't think I was telling him to learn latin; rather,
> that he should increase his vocabulary beyond, oh, I read, years
> back, that the *average* American's *average* vocabulary was about
> 500 words... and that Koko the gorilla had 550 in ASL....
>
> mark "eep, eep"
>
The median adult native English with high-school education has about
11,000 stem words from which perhaps 40-50k derivative words are
formed. Technical jargon aside, one only requires about 6000 root
words to comprehend the essence of approximately 90% of all written
English text.
A native English speaker acquires about three new stem words per day
or over 2500 per year.
But, evidently one may be a boor with any size vocabulary.
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