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To: marktwain

Interesting, though it would be a good thing for the world if those elusive concepts ensconced in the language could be internalized by everyone.

Someone once said that language is thought, and I think they may have been right.


12 posted on 07/07/2018 5:44:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

English has the largest vocabulary on earth with tens of thousands of “borrowed” words. There are 171,474 words currently in use in English. There are over 47,000 obsolete English words.

English has more words than any other language (there are some languages, such as Finnish, where sentences can be effectively compressed into one new word, making the number of words nearly infinite). But English has the most words that are singly defined in dictionaries.

That makes it very difficult to learn.


13 posted on 07/07/2018 5:54:30 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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