On 16/11/2010 4:39 AM, ViLco wrote:
> Il 15/11/2010 14:06, Gorio ha scritto:
>
>> English just added it's one millionth word. I don't know what it is; but
>> you can bet it's some chemical.
>>
>> By comparison, Italian has 250-350,000, Mandarin Chinese, 500,000. We
>> got a lot of syntax to figure out.
>
> 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.

The words one uses is dependent upon the socioeconomic group one inhabits.

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