Learning LiveCode

Robert Sneidar slylabs13 at me.com
Fri Dec 28 13:59:36 EST 2012


I thought English was somewhere around the order of 38,000, not counting technicial terms? I wonder how many of the 500,000 words are actually variations or tenses of another? And then there is this: Published in 1604, Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall contained roughly 2,500 words, each matched with a synonym or brief definition. See: The Earliest English Dictionaries.

Bob


On Dec 28, 2012, at 3:01 AM, Richmond wrote:

> This reminds me of some "prawn" who told me, when I was working near Ashkelon about 32 years ago, that Hebrew was incapable
> of expressing subtle nuances because it had a core vocabulary of only some 10,000 words; while English, on the other hand, having
> a lexicon of somewhere around 500,000 words, was far more sophisticated. While the figures about the vocab lists are reasonably accurate,
> the other statement is complete tosh.





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