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Post by 4EverAdam on Jun 24, 2019 22:24:26 GMT -5
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Post by 4EverAdam on Jun 24, 2019 22:26:29 GMT -5
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Post by nica575 on Jun 24, 2019 22:29:52 GMT -5
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Post by nica575 on Jun 24, 2019 22:32:32 GMT -5
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Post by happy on Jun 24, 2019 22:34:01 GMT -5
I love Adam's vocabulary !! Such a smart man. That reminds me of an incident about 10 or 15 years ago, walking to lunch with some of my coworkers...I forget what we were talking about and I used the work "impale". I didn't think it was that unusual of a word (I'm a voracious reader), but one of my coworkers told me to speak English so people could understand me....ummm....what? It is amazing how reading can expand your vocabulary, but I guess you have to be careful where you apply the knowledge lol. I think I like listening to Adam speak, almost as much as him singing! The English language is unusual because it has Germanic and Romance language roots. As a result, we often have a simple word and a more complicated word for the same thing. Also, we are quite happy to incorporate foreign words. I think I read that we have the largest vocabulary of all the languages. I just looked up vocabulary use and found this: "Studies have shown that the average English native speaker knows about 20,000 words with university-educated people knowing around 40,000 words. When actually speaking and with everyday writing (emails, letters, notes etc.) this goes down to about 5,000 very common words that are used repeatedly."
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Post by nica575 on Jun 24, 2019 22:38:04 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 24, 2019 22:43:43 GMT -5
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Post by nica575 on Jun 24, 2019 22:45:47 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 24, 2019 22:45:53 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 24, 2019 22:48:17 GMT -5
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