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. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
