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Default English the funniest language

ViLco wrote:
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>True, but one ha salso to check which words are used and which aren't.
>The Oxford English Dictionary lists circa 1 million words, but the
>Random House Current English Dictionary lists about 350,000.
>I'd like to have the same figures for italian, though.


Italian has maybe forty spoken words...
and more than 350,000 gesticulations. lol

Italian dictionary:
http://www.alternative-dictionaries....onary/Italian/